Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) has a new conspiracy theory about Hunter Biden, but he couldn’t get CNN’s Jake Tapper to take it seriously during an interview Friday.
In fact, Tapper mocked the Kentucky congressman to his face.
The president’s son was indicted Thursday on nine tax charges in California, and Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, appeared on CNN the next day to discuss the matter.
Although Biden could face serious time behind bars if convicted, Comer dubiously claimed the criminal charges were actually part of a cover-up designed to throw off his investigation into unproven allegations around the Biden family’s supposedly shady financial dealings.
Comer said none of the crimes that Hunter Biden was accused of dealt with things his committee is investigating, and then suggested that special counsel David Weiss indicted the president’s son “to protect him from having to be deposed in the House Oversight Committee [next week].”
Tapper’s eyebrows raised over…
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