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The chairman of the House Oversight Committee suspects that first son Hunter Biden was likely “in proximity” to classified documents that have been discovered in his now-president father’s Delaware home.
“We have reason to believe that Hunter Biden has had some contacts that would be of concern to our national security,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said Tuesday, according to Fox News.
He told reporters he believes Hunter was around the documents, which were found in a garage in the family’s Wilmington home where President Joe Biden keeps a classic Corvette.
He added that, in “the beginning, the story was that the National Archive triggered the raid on Mar-a-Lago and that the administration has come back and implied that it wasn’t the National Archives that it was actually the Department of Justice.”
Continuing, Comer said Republicans in the House “want to know who triggered the raid on Mar-a-Lago,” why there was “such a difference” in how former President Trump’s classified document situation was handled compared to Vice President Mike Pence’s documents, and that GOP lawmakers are “very concerned” about “who had access to Biden’s documents.”
“With respect to the investigation we’re conducting, we have reason to believe that Hunter Biden has had some contacts that would be of concern to our national security,” Comer told reporters.
He said House Republicans “want to know who had access to the documents,” “who all was involved with the president’s personal attorneys,” and if they possessed the proper security clearances to obtain and handle said documents.
“We don’t know who his personal attorneys are; we don’t know who their clients are,” Comer said. “So we just have basic questions. We’re not accusing anyone of any wrongdoing. We just want to know the facts.”
“We’re pretty certain that Hunter Biden was in the proximity of the documents,” Comer added after being pressed by Fox News.
Comer said Republicans are confident that Hunter Biden was around the documents because “they were in the house where Hunter Biden lived for two years.”
“I wouldn’t rule out searching anywhere where certain relatives of the Biden family, who we all know, have been involved in the influence-peddling schemes,” Comer previously said in an interview with Fox News. “I wouldn’t rule out looking at their locations because this is clearly a pattern. No one believes these documents were delivered to 5 or 6 different locations once they left the Vice President’s office. Something bad is going on here.”
The outlet noted further:
The top House oversight Republican also noted that Biden’s campaign promise to be “the most transparent administration in history” and that if Democrats “want to continue to defend the indefensible, then more power to them.”
The president has been under fire for weeks after several batches of classified documents were found at his Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington, D.C., and his Wilmington home. One facet of the scandal is whether Hunter Biden was around or had access to the classified documents in the elder Biden’s home.
Hunter Biden, who is a recovering crack addict who has had several questionable business dealings with overseas contacts in Ukraine and China, noted in his 2021 memoir that often, Biden family members would “quarantine” in the Delaware home where the documents were located.
“The president’s classified documents scandal came after he used the FBI to raid his predecessor’s Mar-a-Lago estate to recover” similarly classified documents, Fox News added.
Also, on Tuesday, CNN reported that the FBI conducted a search of the Penn Biden Center, where Joe Biden had a private office before winning the election in 2020, much earlier than previously known or disclosed by The White House. The search took place after lawyers for the president informed the National Archives that classified documents had been found at the office.
An anonymous official for the Department of Justice informed CNN that there was no search warrant and the November search was done with the cooperation of the president’s legal team.
