Over the course of the last year, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has earned an unfortunate reputation. The Kentucky Republican has launched a desperate crusade, searching for evidence he and his party could use to impeach President Joe Biden, though observers from both parties have noticed that the congressman has failed spectacularly.
But it would be overstating matters to say the GOP congressman hasn’t accomplished anything. It might not have been his intended goal, but Comer has actually excelled when it comes to calling witnesses who’ve discredited Republicans’ conspiracy theories. The New Republic took note of the Oversight Committee chair’s latest flop.
A man House Republicans had previously claimed was a whistleblower on Joe Biden’s corruption categorically debunked all of the GOP’s accusations in a closed-door hearing on Tuesday. Eric Schwerin, a longtime business partner of Hunter Biden, testified in front of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees in a closed-door interview. Schwerin also worked as a financial adviser for Joe Biden from 2009 until 2017, during which time he was able to see transactions in and out of the then vice president’s bank accounts.
I spoke to a source with direct knowledge of Schwerin’s transcribed interview who confirmed that the witness said President Biden was not involved in, did not profit from, and took no official actions in relation to his family’s business dealings.
The same source confirmed that Schwerin specifically told the committee, “I am not aware of any financial transactions or compensation that Vice President Biden received related to business conducted by any of his family members or their associates nor any involvement by him in their businesses. None.”
Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner went on to say, “In my discussions with [Joe Biden] concerning his personal finances, he was always crystal clear that he wanted to take the most transparent and ethical…
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