The Republicans of the ultra wing in Congress have not even waited for the vote count for the mid-term elections on November 8 to finish before, as soon as their party reaches a majority in the House of Representatives, they open the barrage of attacks against Joe Biden that they had been announcing.
The candidates to chair the Oversight and Justice commissions of that House, the extremists and Trumpists James Comer and Jim Jordan, respectively, launched a proposal on Thursday to investigate the president for his alleged involvement in shady deals of his son, the consultant and lobbyist Hunter Biden, who is being investigated by the FBI for alleged tax fraud and misrepresentation in connection with the purchase of a gun,
"Was and is Joe Biden directly involved in Hunter Biden's business? That is our investigation," Comer said at a press conference. And then he took the president's involvement for granted by saying that Republicans have already assembled incriminating evidence. The alleged evidence would show, he said, that the Biden family "prospered and became millionaires" by virtue of crimes among which he cited wire fraud, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, money laundering and tax evasion. taxes.
"We have evidence that Hunter's and Joe Biden's finances, credit cards and bank accounts were mixed up, if not shared," Comer said. And he added that Hunter Biden's business associates met with his father on numerous occasions while he was serving as vice president in the Barack Obama administration.
Comer's claims should be taken with a grain of salt, given his history of launching unproven accusations, especially against Hunter Biden. But he is the probable new president of one of the committees that will guide the Republican offensive against the Democratic government in the next two years.
In his appearance, Comer referred several times to "suspicious activity reports" or SARs as the basis for his investigations. SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) are the documents that banks submit to the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network when they detect a transaction in which they see signs of money laundering or fraud.
“According to media reports,” Comer said, “the Biden family has accumulated more than 150 SARs,” one of which “connects Hunter Biden and his business associates to human trafficking, among other illegal activities.”
For Comer, the important thing is that "this is an investigation into Joe Biden and why he lied to the American people about his family's knowledge of and involvement in international business schemes."
The investigations against the Bidens for the activities of the son of the president occupy a prominent place in what some media outlets in Washington have called the agenda of the revenge of the Republicans against the Government and its Democratic leader, once the conservatives have conquered the House of Representatives.
Other inquiries included in that road map for the second half of Biden's term are those related to the military withdrawal from Afghanistan; to the activity of the FBI, and especially to its operation last August to recover the classified documents that Trump had taken from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida; to immigration management and border security; the management of the coronavirus pandemic, and relations with China.
In the intervention of the Trumpists in the House, the no less extremist representative Jim Jordan emphasized these activities of the FBI, which he even accused of "interfering in the elections", and of the Department of Justice, in his case for the " political nature" of his decisions: an accusation that is a clear echo of Donald Trump's defense strategy in the face of the judicial cases that said Department and the Attorney General's Office continue against him for hiding secret documents, instigating the coup against the Capitol , trying to falsify the 2020 elections and, according to the Public Ministry, trying to deceive the tax authorities and the economic authorities through a fake accounting of their real estate companies.
Trump has already entered the House of Representatives elected at midterm. Its members, new or re-elected, will take over in January. But the new Republican majority, and in particular its most belligerent faction, is already firing its first missiles at Biden and his.
