Republicans announced Friday that they had uncovered a “direct payment” to President Joe Biden — exactly the kind of evidence they’ve sought linking Biden to his family’s foreign business deals.

But the March 2018 payment came from Joe Biden’s brother James, not a Ukrainian oligarch or Chinese tycoon, and the check was marked as a “loan repayment.”

Still, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who obtained the records via subpoena, said the $200,000 check looks suspicious for the president.

“Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum of money to his brother,” Comer said in a video, “and what were the terms of such financial arrangement?”

  • @[email protected]
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    1711 months ago

    I’m not in favor of investigating things frivolously when there is no reason to think there’s any wrongdoing.

    • oleorun
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      3711 months ago

      Apparently Congress is tho.

        • @A_Random_Idiot
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          2411 months ago

          and only when the target is a democrat

          • @[email protected]
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            1411 months ago

            Hey that reminds me, did they ever figure out how many babies Hillary Clinton ate in Benghazi?

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              11 months ago

              Bet it’s on Hunter Bidens lappytahp

              • @A_Random_Idiot
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                511 months ago

                The Laptop thats in the child sex dungeon of a pizza place?

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      I get that. This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that they’ve found criminal activity on the part of the President. They’re very conspicuously not mentioning how this took place in 2018 while Biden was a private citizen and hadn’t announced his candidacy for President.

      But if they really want to follow evidence of clear influence peddling with breathtaking bribes, they could look closer at Jared and Ivanka during their tenure in the White House.

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        611 months ago

        This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that all political investigations are nothing burgers. The hope is the next time a Republican in being charged for actual crimes people will dismiss it as nothing more than the Joe Biden investigation. ‘It’s just what political parties do’.