Home Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) claimed that Democrats ‘scream and yell’ throughout listening to, so Hunter Biden can’t testify in public.
Comer mentioned on Fox Information’s Sunday Morning Futures:
We’ve already seen the Democrats don’t have the disposition to have the ability to conduct themselves appropriately. They scream and yell, the final impeachment inquiry listening to, we had, they filed two motions to adjourn. They entered the identical factor within the document six occasions. I imply, they did all the pieces they may to disrupt the committee listening to. We can have a public listening to with Hunter Biden. I’m, I’m very excited a couple of public listening to with Hunter Biden and Abbe Lowell can have each his shoppers in that public listening to. You’ve got Robert Menendez on one facet and Hunter Biden on the opposite they usually can discuss how harmless they’re of their affect, peddling groups.
However on the finish of the day, we’ve to depose these folks and, and I do know the media says, oh, it’s a closed door deposition. We are going to launch the transcripts. So I in case you take a look at the January sixth committee and each impeachment investigations of, of President Trump within the, within the final Congress, they deposed everybody and, and even Jamie Raskin when he was making an attempt to get Steve Bannon in for a deposition. Bannon provided the identical factor. Hunter Biden’s legal professional provided to. We’re not gonna do a deposition, however we’ll do a public listening to. Jamie Raskin mentioned on CBS This Week, I consider it was or CBS or Meet The Press. A kind of reveals, he mentioned, oh, properly, he can, he might need a public listening to, however he’s coming in for a deposition first as a result of depositions are substantive. This can be a credible substantive investigation.
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James Comer provides a brand new excuse for why Hunter Biden can’t testify in public, “We’ve already seen the Democrats don’t have the disposition to have the ability to conduct themselves appropriately. They scream and yell.” pic.twitter.com/2vgKtWiH5z
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 3, 2023
Rep. Comer was upset in the course of the impeachment listening to as a result of Democrats made motions to adjourn primarily based on the truth that the Home had not licensed an impeachment investigation. Comer known as the listening to an impeachment listening to on Sunday, however on the time, he mentioned that the listening to was not an impeachment listening to, however an investigation into President Biden.
Comer is working out of excuses, and his blame Democrats for not behaving themselves correctly in hearings gambit is lame.
Chair Comer additionally tried to assert that reasonable Republicans now assist impeachment, regardless that there stays no proof to assist his declare.
James Comer is main one of many largest investigative failures within the historical past of the Home, and we’ve reached the purpose within the political loss of life spiral of Biden impeachment the place he’s blaming Democrats.
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