James Comer Principally Begs Joe Biden To Revive Impeachment By Testifying

In what ought to be considered as a final gasp transfer to revive his impeachment investigation, Rep. James Comer has requested President Biden to testify.

Comer requested Biden a bunch of questions which have already been answered, then closed his letter to the President by asking him to testify:

As Chairman of the Committee, along with requesting that you simply reply the questions posed on this letter, I invite you to take part in a public listening to at which you’ll be afforded the chance to elucidate, beneath oath, your involvement along with your family’s sources of revenue and the means it has used to generate it. As you might be conscious, presidents earlier than you’ve got supplied testimony to congressional committees, together with President Ford’s testimony earlier than the Subcommittee on Legal Justice of the Home Judiciary Committee in 1974.

The Committee is open to accommodating your schedule however proposes April 16, 2024, for the listening to to happen. The White Home might contact James Mandolfo or Jake Greenberg with Committee employees at (202) 225-5074 to ask any questions concerning this listening to. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. Home of Representatives and has broad authority to analyze “any matter” at “any time” beneath Home Rule X. Additional, pursuant to article I, part 2, of the Constitution—that the “Home of Representatives . . . shall have the only real Energy of Impeachment”—on December 13, 2023, the Home of Representatives formalized an impeachment inquiry into this and different issues.

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As soon as President Biden stops laughing, the reply to Comer’s request will clearly be no. If Chair Comer had any proof of an impeachable offense, he wouldn’t want Biden’s testimony.

Comer has no proof that Biden did something unsuitable, so his letter is mainly asking Biden to save lots of his impeachment investigation by testifying.

Joe Biden gained’t be testifying earlier than the Oversight Committee. Biden isn’t going to assist Comer revive his lifeless impeachment investigation by lending it credibility along with his testimony.

Chair Comer’s letter was one of many remaining strikes from a determined man who is aware of that his impeachment investigation is dead and gone.

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Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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