House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is zeroing in on a new target after spending the last two years probing the Biden family’s “influence-peddling” schemes.
Comer revealed the Committee will be laser-focused on seeking accountability from federal government employees across multiple agencies who put up roadblocks to the committee’s inquiries into the Biden family, in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Government bureaucrats that could be in committee’s crosshairs this Congress include FBI, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employees, according to the chairman.
“I want to hold these deep state actors accountable,” Comer said, referencing the federal government employees he believes are responsible for covering-up offenses committed by Hunter Biden and other members of the president’s family. “Because who’s to say they’re not going to do it again?”
The Kentucky Republican is casting a wide net of oversight targets for the following two years, acknowledging that the Committee’s focus could diverge across multiple agencies in uncovering instances of deep state actors hindering the committee’s past investigations.
“We need to hold those deep state actors accountable,” Comer reiterated multiple times to the DCNF. “Not just the ones that were responsible for censoring Twitter and Facebook and for putting out the letter from the 51 intelligence officials saying the [Hunter Biden] laptop was Russian disinformation. We need to hold those people accountable that told the IRS whistleblowers ‘No, you cannot talk to the Bidens anymore. Just drop the investigation. We’re going to let the statute of limitations expire.’”
“We need to hold those people in the Securities and Exchange Commission accountable who went after two of Hunter Biden’s partners, but not Hunter Biden in the same business deal,” Comer continued. “One goes to prison, one’s about to go to prison, and then one [Hunter Biden] was never even questioned.”
Comer’s sprawling investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings, partly through the testimony of IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley, found that the FBI confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2019, nearly a year before deep state intelligence officials published a letter alleging the contents within Biden’s laptop to be “Russian disinformation.” The Oversight Committee’s investigation also exposed that the Biden Department of Justice prohibited the IRS whistleblowers from pursuing evidence that could have implicated President Joe Biden.
Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrote a letter to SEC Commissioner Gary Gensler in June 2024 alleging that a 2016 federal securities investigation by the commission may have been discouraged from implicating Hunter Biden after his counsel warned the SEC not to draw “media attention” to then-Vice President Biden or his son.
Comer released a video Friday afternoon stating that he is looking forward to working with Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, and criticized outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray for the obstacles the committee faced from the bureau during the inquiry into the Biden family.
A few words from Chairman Comer on:
First Committee Meeting of the Year
New Subcommittees
New Members
Working with President Trump
Meeting with Kash Patel pic.twitter.com/Rbih3FGKoB— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 17, 2025
Comer also revealed that the newly-created DOGE Subcommittee, helmed by Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, will also be conducting oversight on federal government careerists and will likely haul them before the committee to testify, according to Comer.
“It’s not going to be a pleasant experience [for government bureaucrats],” Comer warns.
Though Comer acknowledged the committee’s extensive investigation into Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family will likely not continue into the 119th Congress, the Kentucky Republican is proud of the information he and his team were able to uncover despite cover-ups from deep state actors.
“The American people have seen the Bidens for who they are,” Comer told the DCNF. “You’ll never see Joe Biden hold a political office again and I’m pretty sure Hunter Biden has no political future either.”
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