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Joe Biden Faces 'Clear' Evidence He Lied in Impeachment Probe—Attorney
Published Mar 30, 2024 at 12:25 PM EDT
Updated Mar 31, 2024 at 11:08 AM EDT

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Comer Gets Frustrated After Being Pressed To Provide Evidence On Biden
Investigation
By Natalie Venegas

According to legal analyst and attorney Jonathan Turley, President Joe
Biden faces "clear" evidence he lied amid his impeachment inquiry.

In December, the House of Representatives voted to launch an impeachment
inquiry into Joe Biden in a 221-212 vote, with members voting along
party lines. Republicans allege that while serving as vice president
under President Barack Obama, Biden used his influence to improperly
support the business activities of his son, from which they suggest he
gained financially. The president has said he had no involvement with
Hunter's business dealings

Republican Rep. James Comer proposed in a letter Thursday that Biden
appear on April 16 to testify before the committee. Comer cited
testimony at last week's public hearing from former business associates
of Hunter Biden — Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis — in which Comer
said their testimony contradicted statements the president has made
about his involvement in his son's business dealings.

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Chavis community center on March
26, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to legal analyst and
attorney Jonathan Turley, Biden faces “clear” evidence he lied amid his
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"In light of the yawning gap between your public statements and the
evidence assembled by the Committee, as well as the White House's
obstruction, it is in the best interest of the American people for you
to answer questions from Members of Congress directly, and I hereby
invite you to do so," said Comer, a Kentucky Republican who chairs the
House Oversight Committee.

Bobulinski and Galanis testified during a hearing last week that the
president participated in schemes to help Hunter Biden's businesses. The
White House has denied their testimonies.

On Friday, Turley, a law professor at George Washington University,
wrote on his website that the letter from Comer is "clear" Biden lied
during his campaign and presidency regarding his son's business dealings.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email on Saturday morning
for comment. The White House has previously described the GOP's
impeachment effort as "sad, pathetic and a waste of everyone's time.

"It is now clear that the President lied during his campaign and during
his presidency on his lack of knowledge of his son's business activities
as well as his denial of any money gained from China...Now, the
Committee has laid out the considerable evidence showing that the
President had lied, knowingly and repeatedly," Turley wrote.

In response to Comer's letter, the White House pointed to a post on X,
formerly Twitter, on March 20 by spokesman Ian Sams after the Kentucky
Republican made the announcement that he planned to invite Biden to testify.

"Comer knows 20+ witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong,"
Sams said in the post. "He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages
of records he's received have refuted his false allegations. This is a
sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment. Call it a day, pal."

Meanwhile, Turley, noted the White House's response, criticizing it as
"disrespectful" and "taunting," adding that it shows there is no
"interest in the answers."

"The involvement of a member of the White House Counsel's staff issuing
such a disrespectful and taunting message would have been unthinkable
just a few years ago. Yet, the media has enabled such denial and
deflection by showing no interest in the answers to any of these
questions," Turley wrote.

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Polls show that fewer Americans say the president was involved in his
son's business dealings. A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey in March found
that 56 percent said that Biden "helped and participated in Hunter
Biden's business," a 3 percent decrease from February's survey.

The downtick was seen among all voters, with the greatest change being
with Republicans. Between the February and March polls, 5 percent of GOP
voters switched to the position that Biden did not participate in his
son's business dealings. In the March survey, 23 percent of Republicans
agreed with that sentiment, compared with 63 percent of Democrats and 47
percent of Independents.

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