GOP Leader Now Claims He Didn’t Make Ugly Comment About Biden’s Dead Son
Rachel Olding, Justin Baragona
Fri, March 3, 2023 at 7:42 PM GMT+1
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new House Oversight Committee Chairman who lamented this week that President Joe Biden’s dead son was never prosecuted in a long-settled campaign financing case, has now tried to claim he said no such thing.
In an appearance on former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs’ podcast on Tuesday, Comer bemoaned that U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, never indicted Beau Biden in a campaign financing scandal in which Biden was cleared of wrongdoing.
But when Comer was cornered by a reporter from The Independent at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, he angrily denied making the comment at all, claiming he was simply pointing out that Weiss “had an opportunity to look into Joe Biden for campaign contributions” and that Beau was attorney general at the time.
“You need to watch the tape, that is a lie—the White House said that, that is not true,” he told The Independent.
“I just said he was attorney general during a case ... Lou Dobbs asked about the attorney, the U.S. Attorney in Delaware. And I said, all we know is ... there was one opportunity... he had an opportunity to look into Joe Biden for campaign contributions. He didn’t, [and] the person that made the contributions was sent to jail, Beau Biden was attorney general at the time, and nothing happened. I never said anything negative about Joe Biden, and I never said Joe Biden should be indicted, which is what the White House said—that’s a complete lie.”
In fact, the White House said Wednesday that Comer’s invocation of the president’s dead son was “completely inappropriate” and “ugly.”
When The Independent pointed out that Beau recused himself from any involvement in the Tigani matter, and was cleared of wrongdoing, Comer shot back, “So what’s your point?”
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