Kathy Chung, a former executive assistant to current President Joe Biden, testified behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, and according to committee chair James Comer, he learned a lot from her.
As previously reported, Chung oversaw the packing and shipping of the former vice president’s documents after he stepped down from office in early 2017.
This matters because it’s now known that the former VP turned president had taken classified documents with him and stored them in unsafe places.
Speaking on “Jesse Watters Primetime” late Tuesday, Comer started off by first reminding folks that the president is facing two congressional investigations.
“Remember, there are two investigations … that we’re conducting: Joe Biden, the influence peddling, and also his mishandling of classified documents. We brought Kathy Chung in today for a transcribed interview, and I want to thank Miss Chung publicly for working and cooperating with our committee and answering questions,” he said.
He then proceeded to tell the audience what he’d learned from Chung.
Listen:
“We learned a lot. First of all, we learned that the documents didn’t just start mysteriously moving around in December of 2022 or November of 2022, like the White House has alleged. She said this dates back to May of 2022,” he began.
And so the White House lied.
“The documents were removed from the vice presidency to at least three different locations in a personal vehicle. We don’t know why they weren’t stored behind any lock. One of the locations was in Chinatown. Another location was in the Penn Biden Center, which might as well have been Chinatown, by looking at where their money was coming from,” Comer added.
Another location was Biden’s Delaware home.
Continuing his remarks, Comer again slammed the White House for lying to the American people.
“The White House has never been honest with the American people. Remember, we never would have found out about this in March of 2023 if someone hadn’t leaked it to the press that Biden was mishandling classified documents. So the White House then came back and said, yeah, that happened in November/December 2022. She just testified under oath that it happened in May of 2022,” he said.
Comer added that, thanks to Chung’s testimony, he now has even more questions than before.
“So there are more questions today than we’ve ever had, and this is ironically what the special counsel is apparently going after Trump next over. The next supposed indictment is going to be over his mishandling of classified documents. Look at what Joe Biden’s done,” he said.
“We don’t know how many locations he has. We don’t know what those documents were. We’re very suspicious that his son sent one of those in an email to Ukraine to his buddies at Burisma. Yet we don’t get any truthfulness out of the White House. This is another example of a two-tiered system of justice in America,” he added.
In a separate statement released after Chung’s testimony Tuesday morning, Comer repeated much of what he’d later say on Fox News:
Today we conducted a transcribed interview with Kathy Chung about President Biden’s mishandling of classified docs.
She provided startling information that undermines the White House’s narrative on the matter.
Full statement from @RepJamesComer https://t.co/T9I2kHLpXn
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) April 4, 2023
“I thank Kathy Chung for her cooperation with the Oversight Committee’s investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. She provided startling information that undermines the Biden White House’s narrative on the matter,” he said.
“Today we learned that when Joe Biden left the vice presidency, boxes containing classified documents, vice presidential records, and other items were stored in three different locations around the Washington, D.C. area, including an office near the White House, an office in Chinatown, and eventually the Penn Biden Center,” he added.
“At some point, the boxes containing classified materials were transported by personal vehicles to an office location. The boxes were not in a ‘locked closet’ at the Penn Biden Center and remained accessible to Penn Biden employees as well as potentially others with access to the office space. We need to find out who had access to these documents,” Comer concluded.
Not mentioned by Comer either on Fox News or his statement is that Chung was reportedly recommended as a hire by Biden’s crack-smoking, scandal-ridden son, Hunter.
“Hunter Biden recommended it. They had worked together at Department of Commerce years ago,” an unnamed source told the Daily Mail.
News: Biden’s former executive assistant, Kathy Chung, has arrived for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into classified documents found at Biden’s home & office
Chung did not answer questions from @CNN upon her arrival
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) April 4, 2023
Chung’s attorney, Bill Taylor, arrived with her. Taylor told me “I don’t know what to predict” from the closed-door interview
Sources familiar with the interview said it will be transcribed, not recorded, and is with committee staff only — no Oversight members
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) April 4, 2023
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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