House Oversight chairman invites Biden to testify as GOP impeachment inquiry stalls

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

March 28, 2024 / 4:32 PM EDT


Washington — The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has invited President Biden to testify publicly as the panel's monthslong impeachment inquiry has stalled after testimony from the president's son failed to deliver a smoking gun.

In a seven-page letter to the president on Thursday, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the committee's chairman, asked Mr. Biden to appear on April 16, an invitation he is almost certain to decline.

"I invite you to participate in a public hearing at which you will be afforded the opportunity to explain, under oath, your involvement with your family's sources of income and the means it has used to generate it," Comer wrote, noting that it is not unprecedented for sitting presidents to testify to congressional committees.

They have done so just three times in American history, according to the Senate Historical Office. The most recent instance came in 1974, when President Gerald Ford testified about his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon. Comer teased a formal request for Mr. Biden's testimony last week, which a White House spokesperson called a "sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comer-biden-impeachment-hunter-biden/

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Link to Oversight Committee letter (PDF) - https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-03-28-CJC-letter-to-JRB.pdf

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Gomer Comer don't know when to shut up and go home.

It's over. You made a fool of yourself. Making it worse for you won't make it better for you.

[Walleye]

2. (Gomer Pyle voice) Election interference! Election interference!

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[rurallib]

3. Tomes like this I worry about President Biden's health

Had Comer offered that to me I may have died laughing.

Really, Jimmy Comer, snark like that can be dangerous in the hands of an untrained professional.

[droidamus2]

4. Typical

I see this as a typical maga propaganda move. Invite him to testify in the middle of an election when they know they have nothing. When he declines you will hear them claim that he is afraid to testify because he knows he did 'something' wrong. Of course they will not say what that 'something' is because they have nothing but they will be able to run with the 'Biden is afraid' bs.

[agingdem]

8. they can say whatever they want

but no one is listening to their conspiracy blather...Comer and Jordan have zero credibility and their newest "GOTCHA" is never going to happen...Biden is under no obligation to honor their invitation ...but I would so enjoy watching our great House Dems shred the MAGA clowns with Joe, in his chair, laughing his ass off...

[TomSlick]

5. I suppose "bugger off" would not be a politic answer

[Raven123]

6. Well, a long campaign needs some comic relief. This should do it

[Mr.Bill]

7. Comer should contact Trey Gowdy

for advice on how to grift out an income after being a complete failure as a U.S. House Representative.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Dear Mr. President, please pull us out of the quicksand we walked into.

[Old Crank]

10. He should agree to show up

Under one condition.
The Republicans on the committee and their staff have to wear their best clown suits for the full time.

[Turbineguy]

11. Does Comer know that Biden is the President?

That he has like, stuff to do?

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. Only after every repuke in congress that supported the Jan 6 riot testifies under oath

about their involvement in the insurrection. Biden should tell them to pound salt.

[relayerbob]

13. My money's on "that ain't gonna happen"

[Quanto Magnus]

14. Why did the author of the article switch from

President Biden to Mr. Biden? It's not to distinguish between Hunter and the President, because of the way it's written.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. It is done per a writing "stylebook" (or "style guide" or whatever they might call it)

I remember comments in a thread on DU that described how news outlets (in that thread's case, newspapers) will initially reference an official using their "official title" the first time the name appears in the article content, and then will change the handle to an "honorific" (Mr., Mrs., Ms., etc) in subsequent references.

[dalton99a]

15. Throw that piece of garbage in the trash

[MissMillie]

17. "stalls?" lol

That's rich.

It's not "stalled." The House GOPers have merely neglected to notice that the horse they've been beating was dead on arrival.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Hey Comer