Evidence points to “another example of a privileged Democrat getting away with things that no average, working, taxpaying American could get away with,” Rep. James Comer said.
A letter falsely insinuating a laptop was Russian disinformation. An IRS whistleblower. Suspicious activity bank reports. Suggestions of false testimony to Congress.
The more congressional investigators dig into evidence in the Hunter Biden scandal that was kept from the public for years, the more they have become concerned the first family was protected by a political cone of silence that prevented voters from making an informed choice in the 2020 election about a family with uncomfortable foreign business deals and partners.
“We’ve got the onion in front of us,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), the top Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, who has been investigating the Biden family’s business deals since 2019. “We’re painstakingly peeling back thin layer after thin layer. But the truth is being revealed. And it’s pretty ugly.”
Two new sensational allegations burst into public Tuesday as Johnson joined fellow Sen. Chuck Grassley to formally accuse Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a close lieutenant of President Joe Biden, of giving Congress a “patently false” account in 2020 about his earlier dealings with Hunter Biden during the Obama years.
“On December 22, 2020, you provided false testimony to Congress during your voluntary transcribed interview,” the senators wrote in a letter to the secretary demanding he preserve and turn over all records of his and his wife’s contacts with Hunter Biden.
You can read that letter here:
John Grassley to Blinken December 20 Transcript PDF
The current controversy deals with Blinken’s testimony about contacts with Hunter Biden back when Blinken served as deputy secretary of state under Obama. When asked at the time whether he ever spoke with Hunter Biden on the phone, Blinken said, “Not that I recall.”
He also said he had not spoken to Hunter Biden over email or text messages.
Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop indicate Blinken corresponded with Hunter Biden at least twice and that the secretary’s wife, Evan Ryan, also communicated with the first son.
By John Solomon
