White House memo attacks Comer ahead of Biden impeachment hearing

The White House put out a lengthy memo Wednesday pushing back on claims alleged by House Republicans ahead of a Thursday impeachment hearing targeting President Joe Biden.

White House officials had previously attacked House Committee on Oversight and Government Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and other Republican lawmakers for scheduling the hearing just days ahead of the deadline to fund the government for the coming fiscal year.

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“In the two weeks since Speaker McCarthy unilaterally opened this fact-free impeachment stunt, House Republicans’ claims have drawn fresh scrutiny, with fact-checkers finding there’s ‘little to back up their allegations’ and calling them ‘totally unproven’ and ‘repeatedly debunked,’ which even their own Republican colleagues have recognized,” White House spokesperson Sharon Yang said in a statement accompanying the memo.

Yang again went after Comer Wednesday for not providing any new evidence to back Republican claims.

“Yet House Republicans are plowing ahead with this baseless stunt anyway. House Oversight Chair Jamie Comer has promised that tomorrow’s hearing will be a ‘rehash’ of old allegations and is ‘not expected to cover new ground,'” she continued. “Instead he claims it is intended to ‘help educate the Washington, D.C. press corps’ which translates to ‘get media attention for our false claims.'”

The memo itself purports to fully rebut the following seven claims alleged by Republicans regarding Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and the family’s business dealings:

• Joe Biden engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national
• Joe Biden as VP got the Ukrainian prosecutor general fired in order to help the company where his son served on the board
• Joe Biden has participated in his family’s global business ventures with America’s adversaries
• President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and it is impacting his decision making
• There was political interference from the Biden administration in Trump-appointed prosecutor David Weiss’ investigation of Hunter Biden
• The Biden Administration is stonewalling congressional investigations
• Joe Biden and the White House have changed their story on the President’s alleged involvement

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“Again and again, Speaker McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, James Comer, and other House Republicans have shown that they are pursuing a baseless impeachment stunt — despite revealing no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden — in a relentless effort to smear the President,” the memo concludes. “The relentless pursuit of this extreme, far-right political agenda comes at the expense of what the American people have sent their leaders to Washington to do — move past the constant political warfare and focus on working together to improve the lives of American families.”