On Thursday, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans are calling on Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to correct the record and apologize to the American people for spreading disinformation about evidence obtained by the Committee during its investigation of President Biden. Most recently, former U.S. Attorney Scott Brady’s testimony debunks Ranking Member Raskin’s lies about the FBI’s unclassified FD-1023 form that memorializes a confidential human source’s conversations with a Burisma executive who claimed to have bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden for $5 million dollars.
“To date, the Committee has demonstrated Joe Biden lied to the American people in 2020 about his family receiving money from China, lied about bank records clearly showing money originating from foreign sources flowing to his family members, and failed to disclose his own knowledge of and participation in his family’s business schemes in Romania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, and China,” wrote the lawmakers. “You have been a spirited critic of the need to look into President Biden or his family. It is of course your prerogative to determine how best to serve your constituents, Abbe Lowell, and the American people. However, the Oversight Committee must not be used as a means to propagate false or deceptive information, and for that purpose, we must address public statements you have made that contradict facts and are, unfortunately, lies.”
On June 5, 2023, the FBI produced an unclassified FD-1023 form alleging then-Vice President Biden engaged in an extortion and bribery scheme with a Ukrainian oligarch and provided a briefing attended by Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Raskin. Following the briefing, Ranking Member Raskin repeatedly stated that former Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney Scott Brady in the Western District of Pennsylvania terminated the investigation and found no further ground to investigate the FD-1023 form. Not only did former Attorney General Barr debunk this lie, but in a recent transcribed interview with the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady also stated Ranking Member Raskin’s comments were not factual. In fact, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady stated his office determined that the FD-1023 Biden bribery record warranted further investigation.
“The Committee requests that you formally correct the record and apologize to the American people for spreading disinformation about evidence collected by the Committee during its investigation of President Biden. Additionally, we ask, Mr. Raskin, that you take seriously your position as Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and its incumbent responsibility to be honest regarding facts learned in the course of investigations—even those that are inconvenient to your own political views. While we appreciate your role up to this point has been to play defense counsel for the Biden family, it is time to follow the evidence and speak the truth,” concluded the lawmakers.
Read the letter to Ranking Member Raskin here.
