In a leaked memo from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee, James Comer’s staff asserts that it doesn’t have to prove Joe Biden or any specific Biden family member were paid to attempt to influence foreign policy, relying simply on the specter of impropriety, not evidence of corruption, to provide a reason for impeachment.
“President Biden’s defenders purport a weak defense by asserting the Committee must show payments directly to the President to show corruption,” the memo states. “This is a hollow claim no other American would be afforded if their family members accepted foreign payments or bribes. Indeed, the law recognizes payments to family members to corruptly influence others can constitute a bribe.”
Without noting that the GOP is led by a man who has 20-foot gold letters spelling out his name adorning buildings he manages and who put his name on everything from a defunct bottled tap water product to a bankrupt airline, the memo also notes that Hunter Biden was pushing “the [Biden] brand” to make money. It also claims that simply because “millions of dollars have come into the Biden family’s bank accounts from foreign sources,” corruption must be implied without noting that Donald Trump, while president, collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from China personally and had a previously undisclosed bank account in the Asia nation.