The incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee is clearly preoccupied with Hunter Biden. It's starting to get a little weird. (via MaddowBlog)
But watching Comer suggest that the Griner story might, in some unexplained way, help justify Republicans’ fixation on President Joe Biden’s son is part of an interesting pattern.
In May, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank examined some rhetoric from Comer, who’ll soon become chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Summarizing the Republican congressman’s outlandish claims, the columnist, “So, to recap, Hunter Biden controls cobalt in Congo, fentanyl in Mexico, coronavirus in Wuhan and war in Ukraine. It is just a matter of time until Republicans find a Hunter Biden angle in Jeffrey Epstein’s demise and UFOs off the coast of California.
Six months later, literally one day after the GOP secured a House majority thanks to this year’s midterm elections, Comer led a news conference about the subject of his preoccupation. At one point, one of the reporters covering the event asked the lawmakers a substantive question unrelated to the GOP conspiracy theories.
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