The news media has long hailed its "speaking truth to power," but former President Donald Trump suggested the "fake news media" couldn't handle the truth when it came to covering the Biden family's alleged "influence peddling" scheme with our largest world rivals.
"What congressmen James Comer and Jim Jordan have revealed about the Biden Crime Family would be Watergate times 10 if this news was revealed 10 years ago," Trump wrote in a statement Wednesday. "Our Fake News Media is corrupt at a level never seen before!"
Rep. Comer, R-Ky., is the chair of the House Oversight and Accountability committee, putting a lot of its early 2023 efforts on investigating what the Biden family business is that netted it millions of dollars.
"What we've learned is that there are now nine confirmed Biden family members who have received some type of deposit from, what I would consider, adversarial countries around the world — not just China," Comer told Newsmax's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" this week. "So this is something that we obviously feared. We knew that there were three or four [Bidens implicated], but now we're up to nine. And I predict there are going to be more when this is all said and done."
Rep. Jordan, R-Ohio, is chair of both the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, covering oversight into if the Biden administration has politicized American justice against its political opposition.
This weaponization of government even started with Obama administration holdovers working during the Trump administration to undermine the American president during the 2020 presidential campaign, Jordan suggested in COVID-19 investigation hearings Tuesday.
"And why is it taking so long for every government agency to admit what we all know?" Jordan asked former Trump administration Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who was a staunch defender of Trump in the first Democrat-led House impeachment of Trump that failed in the Senate. "Because belief in a lab leak as the start of this is not a conspiracy theory.
"Why has it taken so long?" Jordan continued. "You knew that early on.
"You confirmed that in May of 2020, and you knew that within weeks that this thing came from a lab. In fact, I think you say that in your testimony. You say, 'Lab leak is the only credible explanation. If this were a trial, the preponderance of the evidence is all on the side of the lab leak.' You knew all that within weeks."
Trump long alleged the 2020 presidential election was "rigged," as Democrats "used COVID to cheat" and change election processes unconstitutionally without the authorization of state legislatures in key battleground states.
Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
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