Joe Biden impeachment inquiry: Comer to show two dozen pieces of evidence at first hearing

The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee will on Thursday hold its first hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, during which members plan to present more than two dozen items as evidence to support their case.

The items will include “e-mails, text messages, bank records, and testimony of Biden business associates,” according to excerpts of Chairman James Comer’s (R-KY) opening remarks.

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Comer will argue the evidence reveals Joe Biden’s “corruption and abuse of public office” as he and two other chairmen, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Jason Smith (R-MO), continue to vet allegations that Biden inappropriately used his authority as a public official for personal profit.

While Jordan happens to also be a member of the Oversight Committee, Smith is not and will waive into the hearing as the trio continues to lead the inquiry.

They each plan to give an opening statement, and they released a 30-page memorandum the night before mapping out their legal authority for launching the inquiry. The memorandum also detailed the scope of the inquiry, noting it would focus on Joe Biden’s time as vice president and president.

Witnesses at the hearing will include George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley and Eileen O’Connor, a former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s tax division.

Comer is expected to bring attention to a subpoena he issued Monday that, according to a committee aide, contained a narrow request for a certain piece of Hunter Biden’s financial information. The chairman said it produced evidence that Hunter Biden in 2019 received tens of thousands of dollars from two wire transfers originating from Beijing, listing his father’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address on the transfer.

“The American people demand accountability for this culture of corruption,” Comer will say. “They demand to know how these schemes have compromised President Biden and threaten our national security.”

The committee also plans to reference at the hearing a trove of evidence released by Smith on Wednesday that corroborated many of the allegations whistleblowers have raised this year about concerns with the federal government extending Hunter Biden preferential treatment as it investigated him.

Ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), one of Democrats’ top legal experts in the House, has chastised Republicans for basing their inquiry on “right-wing politics” rather than “facts.”

“They’ve gotten every document they’ve asked for and endless testimony. But none of the evidence has laid a glove on President Biden,” Raskin recently said in a statement online.

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Raskin’s office did not respond to a request for comment about his plans for the hearing.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and is expected to last several hours.