When congressional investigators sat down with Devon Archer, a former Hunter Biden business associate, in August, Republicans had high hopes. They shouldn’t have gotten their hopes up: Archer said under oath that Joe Biden wasn’t involved with Burisma, didn’t talk business with his son’s associates, and didn’t take bribes.
But immediately after the closed-door testimony, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer painted a very different picture. In fact, the Kentucky Republican peddled a variety of highly provocative claims about Archer’s testimony — including during appearances on national television — leading the public to believe the witness advanced the case against the president.
When the official transcript came to public light, reality showed the opposite of what Comer had claimed.
Last week, the controversial GOP committee chairman faced the same allegations in reference to a different witness. NBC News reported:
An attorney for Kevin Morris, a lawyer for Hunter Biden who loaned him millions of dollars to pay his tax bills, is accusing Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., of mischaracterizing testimony Morris made in a closed-door committee hearing Thursday.
In a letter to Comer, a copy of which I’ve obtained, Morris’ attorney wrote, “Not two hours after we left Mr. Morris’ transcribed interview, you issued a press statement with cherry‐picked, out of context and totally misleading descriptions of what Mr. Morris said. So much for the promise of your staff that Mr. Morris would be treated fairly.”
The same correspondence demanded that the Oversight Committee release the full transcript of the Q&A with Morris.
White House spokesperson Ian Sams responded soon after that Comer appears to have been caught “blatantly lying,” adding, “This has happened over and over and over.”
To be sure, the relevant transcript has not yet reached the public, and the chairman’s office told reporters on Friday that his claims will eventually be…
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