The fact that House Republicans haven’t uncovered any evidence of wrongdoing against President Joe Biden should probably have a meaningful effect on their impeachment crusade. Leading GOP officials apparently disagree.
In fact, House Republican leaders held a press conference on Wednesday, claiming that their gambit has merit, and suggesting that the political world should take their efforts seriously, despite the fact that the entire endeavor appears to be a woeful partisan sham.
At the press conference, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told reporters that he and his colleagues have “revealed” that the Democratic president “received $40,000 in laundered China money in the form of a personal check from his sister-in-law.”
A Washington Post analysis explained soon after, “It is hard to imagine a more obviously dishonest claim.” According to the Post:
The failure to note that this was very credibly a repayment of a loan, as though Joe Biden is morally culpable for how his brother earns money to pay him back. And the assertion that this is “laundered China money,” as though, first, this money is proved to have been from that energy-company payment and, second, that it was filtered through some nefarious process to hide the source.
The Post’s analysis added that the Kentucky Republican “must know on some level this assertion is at least a stretch, if not willfully false.”
Complicating matters, of course, is the frequency with which Comer has been caught peddling claims that fall apart under scrutiny.
Circling back to our earlier coverage, Axios reported in September, for example, that Comer “has repeatedly exaggerated and distorted the findings of his investigation into the Biden family.” The report added that the Republican has “at times undermined his credibility” by “overstating his committee’s findings.” The same week, a Washington Post analysis took a closer look at comments Comer made during a conservative media…
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