It was nearly seven weeks ago when House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer suggested he’d finally uncovered real and meaningful evidence against President Joe Biden. At long last, the public was supposed to believe, the Kentucky Republican was ready to deliver the goods.
Sure, Comer had made promises he couldn’t keep. And sure, he’d held hearings that undermined his own partisan efforts. And sure, he’d released ostensible “evidence” filled with factual errors. And sure, he’d been caught repeatedly lying. And sure, even other Republicans had grown frustrated by Comer’s flailing crusade. But, in mid-October, the GOP congressman was ready to turn things around with an amazing announcement.
What Comer had uncovered was proof that Biden — in his personal capacity, two years after serving as vice president — loaned his brother some money. Then, his brother paid him back. That was it. That was the story.
The one thing politicians try to avoid when drumming up a scandal is boring revelations — and this was downright dull.
Yesterday, he did it again.
Comer’s office alerted journalists to bank ranks showing Hunter Biden’s firm making monthly payments to Joe Biden in 2018, and according to the Oversight Committee chair, the payments reflected “a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence-peddling schemes.” A Washington Post report explained soon after that there was a far more anodyne explanation:
The three payments of $1,380 that occurred in September, October and November 2018 — nearly two years after Biden had left the vice presidency — were actually for a 2018 Ford Raptor truck Joe Biden had purchased that Hunter Biden was using, according to an email verified by a Washington Post forensic analysis.
The article added that Comer had “again mischaracterized evidence of payments from Hunter Biden to his father.”
“The truth is Hunter’s father helped him when he was struggling…
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