Posted on 11/17/2023 6:04:40 PM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON - The White House is hitting back against House Republicans and their impeachment inquiry into the president by demanding that GOP lawmakers withdraw their subpoenas targeting Biden family members and administration officials.
In a letter obtained by NBC News, White House counsel Richard Sauber called the requests for information and interviews “unjustified,” and characterized the overall impeachment inquiry as “illegitimate.” The letter, dated Friday, was addressed to House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
“Your latest steps follow an irresponsible set of subpoenas and requests for interviews that you launched last week, directed to multiple members of the President’s family, all of whom are private citizens, including for example the President’s deceased son’s widow and her sister,” Sauber wrote. “These unjustified requests were sent despite the fact that, after a year of investigating, voluminous records and testimony from dozens of witnesses have refuted your baseless allegations about the President.”
Comer has released a long list of subpoenas and requests for interviews and documents focused on several Biden family members and their associates. Included in the group are the president’s son Hunter Biden, brother James Biden, his daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen and the widow of his deceased son Beau, Hallie Biden. Sauber described the requests of information from the private citizens as an example of weaponizing the power of Congress to attack a political opponent.
The subpoenas of Biden family members came after House Republicans obtained thousands of pages of bank records connected to James and Hunter Biden. They released details on two interest-free loans from the president to his brother that were repaid in full during the period when Biden was not in office. Comer suggested that the loan arrangement was part of a suspicious business deal involving James Biden, but did not provide definitive...
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Sounds like blatant election interference.
Once before, he threatened to withhold $1 billion aid from Ukraine if they didn’t fire the prosecutor looking into the Biden Crime Family.
Now he threatens Republicans if they don’t stop looking into the Biden Crime Family.
My guess is he is already using the client list for those “high-end DC brothels” to force Republican hands.
Same old songbook. Will he again get to say “Well, sumbitch, they cancelled the subpoenas?”
FO.
communist dems know all about unjustified investigations.
No.
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called the requests for information and interviews “unjustified,” and characterized the overall impeachment inquiry as “illegitimate.”
it’s called PROJECTION...
Meanwhile, a crazed Democrat stooge-judge is demanding that private citizen Ivanka Trump testify...
travesty of justice...
This signals that the Bidens will not be responding to any and all subpoenas going forward. It’s a huge stall tactic but they know the R’s haven’t shown any real balls in decades so it’ll just be at an impasse with the R’s doing their usual huffing and puffing followed by nothing. It’s also all they have other than to take the 5th.
Very tired of this crap.
Taking a lot of flak … must be over the target
Demanding? Well then, how about this: I demand that the Jan 6 hostages be freed no later than next Monday.
F ‘em ..
What a Banana Republic we live in these days.
Jordan has already said he’s not going to go after Fauci for lying. GOP is totally useless.
Oh, yeah - hard to imagine political subversion of the justice system. These Republicans have no shame. Oh, when is Trump’s next court date?
Kma Traitor. Joe not you.
Was it Not said by Letitia James that No one is above the law?
Whats good for President Trump is good for Joe Biden.
Trump’s family were subpoena’ed illegally in that case.
After everything they’ve put, and are putting Trump through, he’s going to belly-ache over a congressional subpoena?!?!?
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It’s Obstruction of Justice.
He’s acting on Biden’s behalf. They’re using Government lawyers to stymie the pursuit of the Truth.
If Trump did it, it be called Intimidation and Obstruction.
sounds like obstruction of justice to me
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