While network news has remained relatively mum on the alleged influence peddling of President Joe Biden, the House GOP hammered home the scope of their allegations with one leadership member asserting it to be the “biggest political corruption scandal” of “the past 100 years.”
(Video: Fox News)
Friday, House Republican Conference Chair New York Rep. Elise Stefanik sat down with “Fox & Friends” host Ainsley Earhardt just one day after Biden lost his cool when questioned on being dubbed the “big guy” in an FBI informant’s file.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) had suggested newly reviewed bank records present as much as $30 million in earnings for the Biden family from foreign nationals and Earhardt sought reaction to the president’s temperament.
“He is getting testy. Joe Biden wants this story to go away, but it is not going to go away,” the congresswoman leveled. “We’re gonna continue doing our work as House Republicans to bring transparency and ultimately accountability.”
“This is the biggest political corruption scandal, not only in my lifetime, but I would say the past 100 years,” Stefanik said as she laid out, “You have multiple members of the Biden family profiting illegally from foreign governments. You also have the bombshell reporting, including potential tapes that exist of, while Joe Biden was vice president, taking a bribe from Burisma.”
As previously reported, Biden had been questioned by New York Post reporter Steven Nelson over details contained in the long withheld informant file that alleged a Burisma executive, who was one of those believed to have paid Biden for political favors, had also kept audio recordings between him and the president, and the president’s son Hunter Biden as well.
Nelson asked, “Why did the Ukraine FBI informant file refer to you as the ‘big guy,’ President Biden? Why is that term continuously applied?” only to have the president snap back, “Why’d you ask such a dumb question?”
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“So this reeks of corruption,” Stefanik continued, “and we are going to make sure that we follow the facts. And I want to say that Jamie Comer, who is our chair of Oversight and Government Reform, he’s been doing a tremendous job following the facts, following the bank account so that there can be transparency for the American people.”
After Earhardt reiterated suspicions of $30 million in bribes paid to the Bidens, the GOP chair said of Comer’s investigation, “He is following the money, Ainsley, and this is a tree of corruption. It’s multiple Biden family members and the American people know that the ‘big guy’ is Joe Biden. That’s why Joe Biden is so testy when the reporters do their job asking these tough questions. But what’s interesting, Ainsley, is only certain networks like Fox News and others who are focused on the facts are talking about this.”
To the lawmaker’s point, the host presented a comparison of ABC, CBS and NBC’s coverage of the Burisma scandal compared to former President Donald Trump’s indictment and found over the same period of time, 291 minutes had been devoted to the latter with no time being allotted to the former.
“Mainstream media is doing everything they can to try to brush this under the rug to protect Joe Biden,” Stefanik charged, “who is the weakest incumbent president, who, of course, is running for reelection.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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