Home Oversight Committee rating member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer’s many lies with an epic letter.
Rep. Raskin wrote to Comer in a letter supplied to PoliticusUSA:
As you already know, all through this 12 months, I’ve despatched you 12 completely different letters registering my objection to your persevering with distortion of key information within the Majority’s investigation of President Biden, together with false statements in regards to the course of, deceptive descriptions of witness testimony, and fully misleading statements to the American individuals in regards to the findings within the Committee’s Biden household probe. I’ve scrupulously documented the information debunking this large pile of misinformation, however you will have to this point remained fully silent about responding to my particular refutations of your false claims and about your willingness to make clear the general public file. You haven’t seen match to answer to even considered one of my letters. So, think about my full shock in receiving your October twenty sixth letter expressing an curiosity within the information!
Look, I do know that our first (and nearly definitely ultimate) impeachment listening to was a devastating disappointment when your star witnesses defected from their assigned missions, with one testifying he did “not consider that the present proof would assist articles of impeachment” towards President Biden and one other stating that he had no foundation to “even recommend that there was corruption, fraud, or any wrongdoing.” Your witnesses, like our personal, have been clearly conversant in the thick investigative file you will have assembled, which, up to now, contains: greater than 14,000 pages of financial institution data already subpoenaed and obtained by the Committee, over 2,000 pages of suspicious exercise reviews (SARs) made out there by the Division of the Treasury, many hours of witness testimony from two of Hunter Biden’s enterprise companions and three U.S. Attorneys, in addition to seven federal brokers assigned to research Hunter Biden, and a whole bunch of pages of cherry-picked paperwork launched by the Committee on Methods and Means. However this large file that you’ve selectively compiled failed to influence your individual witnesses of any legal wrongdoing by the President, a lot much less an impeachable offense.
This should be irritating certainly.
However please, Mr. Chairman, I ask you to not take your frustrations out on me—it wasn’t my fault. These have been your witnesses.
You invited them.
Not me.
We simply questioned them.
Since that listening to, you claimed to have uncovered but extra “bombshell” proof that
once more proved to be a powerful dud.
For instance, final week you eagerly hyped the surprising revelation that, when he was a personal citizen, Joe Biden dedicated the apparently unforgivable sin of lending his personal brother James $200,000 which James repaid 48 days later.
Rep. Raskin debunked Comer’s many lies over 9 pages of his letter. Since Chair Comer hasn’t responded to any of Rating Member Raskin’s earlier 12 letters, Raskin helpfully connected all of them to his thirteenth letter. The Biden investigation is a whole farce.
Home Republicans have abused their energy and embarrassed the Home of Representatives.
Republicans have spent all of 2023 on the Biden investigation, they usually have give you nothing. But, Rep. Comer expresses frustration that no media exterior the conservative media bubble will cowl his investigation.
The faux Biden impeachment listening to was so humiliating that Republicans walked out on it to attempt to keep away from being tainted by it.
The excellent news for the nation is that if Democrats win again the Home majority in 2024, actual oversight will return when Jamie Raskin turns into the Oversight Committee Chairman in January 2025.
Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation
