Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan shamefully made criminal referrals of Hunter and James Biden to the DOJ for perjury.
Read: The Republican Presumptive Nominee for President is A Convicted Felon
Comer and Jordan wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland:
Hunter Biden and James Biden made false statements to the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee, as evidenced by the evidence presented in the attached referral. The nature of these false statements was not lost on the Committee: each incident implicated Joe Biden’s knowledge and role in his family’s influence.
Hunter Biden denies affiliation with Rosemont Bank Account Seneca Bohai confused the account for a foreigner who met with Joe Biden to send funds. In addition, Hunter Biden created a fiction out of whole cloth that sent threats to the wrong people in what appeared to be an attempt to hide the fact that getting Joe Biden to successfully force his Chinese counterpart to send money. This also casts another doubt on Hunter Biden testimony about the event, such as the statement that his father was not sitting next to him when he sent the message.
James Biden’s denial that Joe Biden’s meeting with James Biden, Hunter Biden, and Hunter Biden’s business partner for the Chinese transaction, Tony Bobulinski, took place, despite the evidence placed in front of him and being given several opportunities to change his response—seems to be an attempt awkward to protect Joe Biden from the fact that Joe Biden has actually met with his family’s business associates. Hunter Biden and James Biden gave false testimony to the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee, which appeared to be a conscious and calculated effort to insulate Joe Biden from the legitimate impeachment inquiry. The committee recommended that Hunter Biden and James Biden be prosecuted under 18 USC § 1001 (false statements), and, additionally, Hunter Biden be prosecuted under 18 USC § 1621 (perjury). The Department of Justice must consider Hunter Biden’s criminal conduct before evaluating whether to charge him for the false statements described in the attachment. 14
Because Hunter Biden was charged federally in two different jurisdictions at the time of his Congressional deposition, he was also subject to two federal court orders that said he could not commit a crime while on federal supervised release.
Comer and Jordan’s evidence was testimony from Trump campaign asset Tony BobulinskiÂ
Bobuliniski also admitted in his testimony that he had no evidence that Joe Biden had done anything wrong.
Comer and Jordan have made criminal referrals without credible evidence to support their conclusions. It is no coincidence that this criminal referral was made after Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. These references are political hacks at their worst.
Attorney General Garland will likely throw these referrals in the trash and do nothing about them because they are an abuse of power and a partisan effort to distract from the fact that the Republican presidential candidate is a convicted felon.
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