The FBI search of former President Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago has spurred Republicans to magnify their call for a future investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden's son Hunter if the GOP takes control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Republicans are making no secret of their intentions to use a Hunter Biden investigation next year as a way to go after his father, planning a widespread investigation that will reach into the ethics of Hunter Biden's artwork sales and other business deals, as well as policy decisions by the Biden administration.
A House majority would help Republicans try to push their narrative into the mainstream, and many in the GOP say oversight of the Bidens would counterbalance what they see as a Justice Department where partisanship clouds decisions like the investigation of 2020 election subversion that's drawing closer to Trump, Politico reported.
"I'm not exactly sure I see a big difference" between starting with Hunter and incorporating Joe Biden from the get-go, said Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman, a Republican member of the Oversight and Reform Committee, which is expected to take the lead on a House inquiry into Hunter Biden. "Obviously, you start with Hunter … [but] it appears as though the president is involved as well, and it's something you're going to have to look into."
Even before the search of Trump's home, House Republicans had been homing in on Hunter, and several name-checked him in their response to the FBI's raid.
Kentucky Rep. James Comer, set to chair the committee if Republicans win the majority, said he will be ready to formally launch an investigation in January, when the new Congress is sworn in, according to Politico.
"We're going to have a great hearing early on the potential wrongdoing within the Biden family," Comer said. "The fear is that these shady business dealings have compromised the president."
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican who is set to chair the Judiciary Committee under a 2023 GOP majority, added that a Hunter probe "will help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is going to run again. And we need to make sure that he wins."
Democrats such as current Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney were quick to respond that if Comer "is concerned about presidential conflicts of interest, I would welcome him to join me in investigating taxpayer funds spent at Trump properties, serious deficiencies in President Trump's financial disclosures, foreign government spending at the former Trump Hotel," and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's ties to Saudi Arabia.
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