Jamie Raskin Hammers ‘Epic Flop’ House GOP Biden Investigation
Home Oversight Committee rating member Rep. Jamie Raskin laid out why the Home Republican investigation of President Biden has been an epic flop.
Rep. Raskin (D-MD) mentioned in a press release offered to PoliticusUSA:
By August 2021, within the first six months of the 117th Congress, Home Democrats had helped kickstart our nation’s financial system with the American Rescue Plan and handed a funds with historic investments in working households. We went on to cross laws to cut back drug and power prices, deal with the local weather disaster, deliver jobs again to America, and rebuild our nation’s infrastructure with groundbreaking legal guidelines just like the Inflation Discount Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation. Even within the first six months of the 116th Congress, when Donald Trump was within the White Home, the Home Democratic Majority delivered significant reform for the American folks by working throughout the aisle to cross greater than 20 payments that had been signed into legislation, together with funding to finish a 35-day authorities shutdown attributable to Trump and congressional Republicans, laws to assist veterans and victims of pure disasters, and landmark enactments preserving public lands for future generations.
Against this, the primary MAGA-directed Congress is by far probably the most reckless and least productive in a long time. After holding the American financial system hostage by threatening to default on America’s monetary obligations, Home Republicans at the moment are eagerly pushing the federal government to the brink of a shutdown. As an alternative of engaged on laws to advertise the widespread good and even simply preserve the federal government working, Home Republicans are weaponizing their workplaces and exploiting congressional energy and assets to advertise debunked and outlandish conspiracy theories about President Biden. It is a clear effort to spice up Donald Trump’s marketing campaign by establishing a false ethical equivalency between Trump—the 4 time-indicted former president now going through 91 federal and state felony expenses, primarily based on a mountain of damning proof for a surprising vary of felonies, together with mendacity to the FBI, endangering nationwide safety by illegally protecting labeled paperwork, and conspiring to subvert the U.S. Structure—and President Biden, towards whom there may be exactly zero proof of any wrongdoing by any means. On the contrary, Chairman Comer’s investigation has conclusively disproven the Republican allegations towards President Biden.
Home Republicans continuously insist that they’re investigating President Biden and never his grownup son. In that case, we are able to kind an apparent judgment on their investigation: it has been an entire and complete bust—an epic flop within the historical past of congressional investigations. The voluminous proof they’ve gathered, together with 1000’s of pages of financial institution information and, suspicious exercise experiences and hours of testimony from witnesses, overwhelmingly demonstrates no wrongdoing by President Biden and additional debunks Republicans’ conspiracy theories. Moderately than admit this unavoidable fact about their failed investigation, Home Republicans have mischaracterized, cherry-picked, and hid proof and recycled lengthy debunked conspiracy theories initially peddled by Rudy Giuliani and Trump, all in humiliating subservience to Donald Trump’s petulant demand that they impeach President Biden.
Within the face of Republicans’ shameful perversion of congressional energy and misuse of taxpayer {dollars} for this hopeless wild goose chase, Committee Democrats will proceed to defend the reality, the rule of legislation, and the integrity of our Structure and democratic establishments.
Home Republicans Have Come Up With No Proof In opposition to Biden
Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has no proof that President Biden did something fallacious. Comer has accused Biden of bribery however has no proof that the President obtained any cash. Comer has accused Biden of obstructing his investigation, however the proof reveals that entities just like the Nationwide Archives have been cooperating with investigative requests.
Rep. Comer has spent months investigating the President’s son, who isn’t in authorities and doesn’t work for the administration in any manner. Hundreds of thousands of {dollars} of taxpayer cash have been spent on investigations which have turned up nothing.
Speaker McCarthy goes to maneuver ahead with Biden impeachment as a result of that’s what Trump and his MAGA followers within the Home need, however the investigation has been an embarrassing failure and an train within the abuse of energy that can doubtless do nothing to assist Trump in 2024.
