On Wednesday, Comer was asked about specific policy decisions Biden made while president or vice president that may have been directly influenced by these foreign payments. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, said during the news conference. They wanted him for the access his last name gave him,” Rep. “These people didn’t come to Hunter Biden because he understood world politics or that he was experienced in it, or that he understood Chinese businesses. Comer has suggested that Biden may have been improperly influenced by the financial dealings, particularly by his family’s foreign business partners.īut the latest report does not show any payments made directly to Joe Biden, either as vice president or after leaving office.Ĭomer has been publicly teasing information for months about the paper trail committee Republicans have uncovered through subpoenas sent to multiple banks and trips to the Treasury Department to review records.Ĭomer and other Republicans on the committee held a press conference Wednesday morning to tout their findings.
The memo marks Comer’s most direct attempt to substantiate his allegations that Biden family members have enriched themselves off the family name.
The bank records by themselves also do not indicate the purpose of the payments that were made. The foreign payments raise questions about Hunter Biden’s business activities while his father was vice president, but the committee does not suggest any illegality about the payments from foreign sources. Republicans also alleged that Hunter Biden used his familial connections to help facilitate a meeting in 2016 between a Serbian running for United Nations Secretary-General and then-national security adviser to the vice president Colin Kahl.
New bank records cited in the memo were obtained by the committee through a subpoena and include payments made to companies tied to Hunter Biden. House Oversight Chairman James Comer laid out new details to support allegations that members of Joe Biden’s family including his son Hunter received millions of dollars in payments from foreign entities in China and Romania including when Biden was vice president, according to a memo obtained by CNN.
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