The curtain goes up on House Republican investigations into President Joe Biden and his family with a hearing Wednesday about how Twitter blocked messages about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Comer said documents suggest Hunter Biden was paid $80,000 per month by Burisma and benefitted from a $5 million deal in China, which was wire-transferred through corporate intermediaries. Comer said he would like to find out what Hunter Biden provided in exchange.acknowledged there might be nothing to the suspicious reports, but he wants to review them.
Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson for oversight, called the request for banking records a political stunt driven by the most extreme members of the Republican conference.Biden’s most vocal Republican antagonists emerge from the sidelines – with subpoena powerJoe Biden denied repeatedly he received any benefit from his son’s business deals. But Republicans questioned his truthfulness.
, so Comer asked the agency for those records from when Biden left the Obama administration in January 2017.