Under siege by GOP investigations, Joe Biden is preparing for the fight of his political life, backed by a team of lawyers, strategists and allies.
"These blatant, easily disprovable @HouseGOP lies are dizzying," Sams wrote onin a typical post in early February in a real-time response to a House Oversight Committee hearing on the administration's border policies.
Sauber set the tone early on when he rejected those initial oversight requests from incoming House Oversight Chair James Comer and Judiciary Chairin the early-morning email in late December. If faced with"similar or other requests in the 118th Congress, we will review and respond to them in good faith, consistent with the needs and obligations of both branches," Sauber wrote."We expect the new Congress will undertake its oversight responsibilities in the same spirit of good faith.
So far, the war-room strategy appears to be paying off, forcing Republicans to make some concessions as their oversight hearings get underway. In an initial showdown over witnesses, Comer played hardball, demanding that four Department of Homeland Security officials testify before his committee at a hearing in early February on Biden's border policies and threatening to issue subpoenas if they did not comply.
No evidence has emerged to support the claim, despite multiple Senate investigations into the matter. Nevertheless, Comer has alleged Hunter Biden's business activities are part of an ongoing"influence operation" that includes the president's brother and reaches all the way to the highest levels of the U.S. government.
The Justice Department—which is simultaneously investigating Trump's handling of classified documents and effort to overturn the 2020 election—is also under"pressure to investigate it expeditiously," Rod Rosenstein, who served as the second-ranking DOJ official under Trump, tellsof the Biden probe. The president has said he was unaware of the existence of classified documents at his home and former office.
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