House Oversight Chair Comer: Trump DOJ could subpoena Biden’s bank records to verify his findings
Chairman Comer says Joe Biden’s bank account would show whether the money he received from family was really part of loan repayments.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, who led the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, said he has been in contact with the incoming Trump Justice Department about his probe’s findings and suggested the new attorney general could subpoena bank records withheld from his committee.
“I'm in communication with Pam Bondi's team. If the Trump Justice Department wants to move forward on this, I want to move forward on this. But I'm waiting for direction from them, because we fought against the tide with the Merrick Garland Department of Justice. I don't know how much appetite Donald Trump has or Pam Bondi has to go after Joe Biden,” Comer told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Thursday.
“But look the investigations there, Joe Biden lied. We got everyone's bank records except Joe Biden. We never could get Joe Biden's bank records,” he also said.
Comer’s impeachment probe concluded last year and found that Biden engaged in impeachable conduct by helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars in business schemes that traded on his name and then defrauded voters by lying to cover up the scandal.
As part of the investigation Comer uncovered multiple payments to Joe Biden from his family members on several occasions which were labeled as loan repayments. Comer says reviewing Biden’s bank records would show whether they were legitimate loans.
“I think it would be interesting for someone in the Bondi Department of Justice to look at Joe Biden's bank records to see if, in fact, he ever loaned his brother money, because the money we found from Joe the quarter of a million dollars, as you know, John, he tried to say, was a loan repayment, but he never proved that he ever made the initial loan,” he continued.
Comer argued that the evidence collected by his team is enough to justify a subpoena for the records.
“My investigation is detailed in the book, All the President's Money, and in our final oversight committee report, they have the basis to be able to receive a positive subpoena to obtain this bank information from Joe Biden,” Comer said. “Look, he admitted to the American people when he pardoned his entire family preemptively, that's right, that this was a Biden crime family.”