House Oversight Committee Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s many lies with an epic letter.
Representative Raskin wrote to Comer in a letter to PoliticusUSA:
As you know, I sent you twelve different letters this year expressing my objection to your continued distortion of key facts in the majority investigation into President Biden, including false statements about the trial, misleading descriptions of witness statements, and completely misleading statements. to the American people on the findings in the commission’s Biden family investigation. I have painstakingly documented the facts that have debunked this massive pile of disinformation, but you have thus far remained completely silent about your response to my specific refutations of your false claims and about your willingness to clarify the public information. You have not seen fit to respond to even one of my letters. So imagine my complete surprise when I received your letter of October 26 expressing my interest in the facts!
Look, I know that our first (and almost certainly last) impeachment hearing was a devastating disappointment when your star witnesses left their assigned missions, with one testifying that he “did not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment” against President Biden and another stated that he had no basis to “even suggest that there was corruption, fraud or any wrongdoing.” Your witnesses, like ours, were clearly familiar with the voluminous investigative report you have collected, which to date consists of: more than 14,000 pages of bank records already subpoenaed and received by the committee, more than 2,000 pages of reports on suspicious activities (SARs) made available by the Treasury Department, many hours of testimony from two of Hunter Biden’s business associates and three U.S. attorneys, as well as seven federal agents assigned to investigate Hunter Biden, and hundreds of pages of cherry-picked documents that have been declassified by the Committee on Ways and Means. But this gargantuan dossier that you have selectively compiled has failed to convince your own witnesses of any criminal wrongdoing by the President, let alone a criminal offense.
This must be frustrating indeed.
But please, Mr. Chairman, I ask you not to take your frustrations out on me; it wasn’t my fault. Those were your witnesses.
You invited them.
Not me.
We just questioned them.
Since that hearing, you claim to have discovered even more bombshell evidence
turned out to be another resounding dud.
Last week, for example, you eagerly hyped the shocking revelation that Joe Biden, while a private citizen, committed the seemingly unforgivable sin of lending his own brother James $200,000, which James repaid 48 days later.
Representative Raskin debunked Comer’s many lies in nine pages of his letter. Since Chairman Comer has not responded to any of Ranking Member Raskin’s previous twelve letters, Raskin helpfully attached them all to his thirteenth letter. The Biden investigation is a complete farce.
The Republicans in the House of Representatives have abused their power and embarrassed the House of Representatives.
The Republicans spent all of 2023 on the Biden investigation, and they came up with nothing. Yet from Rep. Comer expresses frustration that no media outside the conservative media bubble will report on his research.
The fake Biden impeachment hearing was so humiliating that Republicans walked over to it in an attempt to avoid being tainted by it.
The good news for the country is that if Democrats regain the majority in the House of Representatives in 2024, real oversight will return when Jamie Raskin becomes chairman of the Oversight Committee in January 2025.
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Jason is the editor-in-chief. He is also a White House press pool and congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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