Comer on Fox News: Biden Crime Family Pardons Serve as a Confession of Their Corruption

WASHINGTON—In an op-ed published today on Fox News, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) outlines how President Joe Biden’s pardons of the Biden Crime Family serve as a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves. Despite outlandish claims of “no evidence” by legacy media and denials by President Biden, the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of the Bidens’ influence peddling racket uncovered that the Bidens and their associates raked in over $30 million by selling access to Joe Biden around the world. Chairman Comer writes in the op-ed that President Biden will go down as the most corrupt president in U.S. history, and the Oversight Committee’s investigation will be remembered as one of the most successful ever conducted by Congress.

This week, President Biden followed his unprecedented pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, by issuing additional preemptive pardons to family members, dating back to his time as vice president. These preemptive pardons for the Biden Crime Family serve as a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves. In fact, Biden’s own Justice Department has argued that accepting a pardon implies an admission of guilt.

When we started our investigation of Joe Biden and his family’s influence peddling schemes, the narrative peddled by legacy media was that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop were disinformation. Joe Biden claimed that his family’s business dealings were “ethical.” But our investigation blew through these lies and more as we followed the money trail and conducted a forensic accounting of the Biden family “business.”

During our investigation, the House Oversight Committee reviewed hundreds of pages of documents at the U.S. Department of the Treasury generated by the Bidens’ and their associates’ high-dollar transactions. These documents are filed by experts at banks when there is evidence of potential money laundering or other criminal activity. Additionally, we obtained the bank records for Hunter Biden, James Biden, their shell companies, and business associates.

Bank records don’t lie. Through these records, we identified over 20 shell companies that the Bidens and their associates created – most of which were created after Joe Biden became Vice President of the United States. The Bidens and their associates then used these shell companies to accept payments from foreign entities and individuals. Once the payments arrived in the shell companies’ bank accounts, they would then launder money in incremental payments to members of the Biden family. In fact, we identified ten members of the Biden family who benefited from these schemes, including Joe Biden.

Including loans that do not appear to have been paid back, the Biden family’s enrichment scheme generated over $30 million in payments to the Bidens and their associates from corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. What were they selling? Access to Joe Biden and his influence.

After we obtained the bank records, the Oversight Committee hauled in members of the Biden family and their associates for testimony. Multiple Biden family associates confirmed Joe Biden was “the brand” sold around the world and helped close the Bidens’ deals with foreign nationals.

Devon Archer, a Biden family associate, confirmed during a transcribed interview that when Joe Biden was Vice President, Joe Biden dined with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev, and Burisma’s corporate secretary Vadym Pozharsky at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. These dinners occurred shortly before or after the foreign nationals or their affiliated entities were collectively paying Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, millions of dollars. Then-Vice President Joe Biden also met with Jonathan Li, a Chinese national who was Hunter Biden’s associate, and wrote a college letter of recommendation for his daughter. Even when presented with this evidence, President Biden continued to lie to the American people.

Rob Walker, a Biden family associate who was involved in the Bidens’ dealings with Chinese and Romanian entities, confirmed during a transcribed interview that Joe Biden met with the now-missing Chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, as Hunter Biden and his associates received $3 million from a Chinese entity CEFC controlled.

Jason Galanis, another Biden family business associate, testified that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone with Yelena Baturina. Joe Biden ended the call by stating, “Ok then, you be good to my boy.” A few days later, Baturina committed to a “hard order” of $10-20 million to an entity benefitting Hunter Biden.

Tony Bobulinski articulated under oath that Joe Biden was “the brand” the Bidens sold to enrich the family. Joe Biden not only knew about his family’s dealings with a Chinese Communist Party-linked energy company, but he also enabled them and participated in them. Tony Bobulinski testified he believes Joe Biden committed wrongdoing and continues to lie to the American people about his participation in his family’s influence peddling schemes. 

As we presented all this evidence to the American people in a transparent way, the legacy media claimed there was “no evidence” of wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his family. Joe Biden’s pardons of his family serve as an indictment of the legacy media who lost all credibility as they covered up Joe Biden and his family’s abuse of power, corruption, and obstruction. Following Joe Biden’s pardons, even former President Obama’s chief of staff, Bill Daley, said it “confirms that there are serious concerns about culpability.”

The American people have seen through the Bidens’ lies and the legacy media’s coverup, and they know the truth: President Biden abused his public office to create a slush fund for his family. President Biden will go down as the most corrupt president in U.S. history, and our investigation will be remembered as one of the most successful ever conducted by Congress. Indeed, Joe Biden’s final act in office—pardoning his family—confirms it.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.