‘Incredibly Ugly’: White House Blasts Top Republican Attacking Biden’s Deceased Son
House Oversight chairman laments the late Beau Biden was never prosecuted
The White House came out swinging against the new Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who this week lamented that President Biden's dead son was never prosecuted.
During an appearance on former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs’ podcast, Rep James Comer, of Kentucky — who became House Oversight Committee chairman when Republicans took over the House in January — was going about Biden's son, Hunter, when he took an unexpected tangent off to the president's other son, Beau.
Although Hunter Biden and his laptop have been right-wing fodder for several years now, Beau Biden was the former Delaware attorney general who died of a brain tumor in 2015.
Comer complained that Beau Biden was never prosecuted over an investigation into illegal contributions involving his father’s 2008 presidential campaign.
“This U.S. attorney had had an opportunity to go after the Bidens years ago,” the Kentucky lawmaker huffed. “In fact, it was Beau Biden, the president’s other son, that was involved in some campaign donations from a person that got indicted, as well as Joe Biden was involved in some of these campaign donations when he was a senator, and then when he ran for president against [Barack] Obama.”
Comer, however, failed to mention that both Beau Biden and his father — as well as other politicians in the case — were exonerated.
President Biden's top White House spokesperson clapped back harshly at Comer's remarks.
“Oh, it’s completely inappropriate. And it’s ugly, the comments that he made. And it says a lot about the chairman, which is not good, by the way,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during Wednesday's press briefing. “To make the statement that he did is incredibly ugly and inappropriate. And here’s what I would say: Instead of House Republicans focusing on attacking the president and his family, why don’t they actually focus on what the American people put them in office to do, which is to deliver for them, which is to actually work with their colleagues — the Democratic colleagues [and] the president — to actually put forth pieces of legislation or put forth policies that’s going to make a difference in their lives?
“And, you know, you don’t have to listen to me: You can look at the results from — from the midterms that said just that. [The American people] want to see Congress working for them. That’s what they want to see,” Jean-Pierre added. “They want to make sure that their Medicare is protected. They want to make sure that we’re lowering costs. They want to make sure that their family feels protected. They want to make sure that their rights are protected. But that’s not what House Republicans are doing. Instead, they want to do political stunts.”
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