James Comer Defends Not Issuing Subpoenas in Biden Family Probe: ‘It’s About Winning’Wendell Husebø 1 Mar 2023
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday defended why he has not yet issued subpoenas in the Biden family business probe, insisting he is practicing restraint to “show good faith,” after Hunter refused to comply with the committee’s request for bank documents and communications.
Comer is investigating the Biden family for nine potential violations, including tax evasion, money laundering, and wire fraud. But with Hunter’s curt rejection of Comer’s request to supply a host of bank records and communications between the Biden family business members, the establishment media has raised questions of why Comer has not issued subpoenas to compel the relevant information.
“We give people plenty of time. When you do subpoenas, if you want to win in court, you have to show good faith effort that you tried to get the information. So we’re checking some boxes,” Comer told Punchbowl News.
“When we do subpoena, if we have to, then we’re going to win the subpoenas in court,” he warned. “It’s not just issuing a subpoena,” Comer said. “It’s about winning.”
Comer explained he intends to issue about 12 subpoenas to individuals who might not willingly comply with the committee’s oversight. The potential subpoenas do not just pertain to the Biden family business scheme but additional investigations the committee has launched, such as the probe into President Joe Biden’s deadly Afghan withdrawal and Biden’s classified document scandal.
“It’s important to me that the dozen or so subpoenas I issue, people comply with,” Comer said. “So we’re on a roll and we’re gonna go.”
In November, Comer first warned of his intention to issue subpoenas to anyone who refused to comply with his probes. In February, Comer told Fox News the “next step will be subpoenas” in the Biden family probe. “We will use the subpoena power,” he said.
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