WASHINGTON — Republicans have repeatedly claimed that the Biden administration has wielded the Justice Department to distract from their investigation into the Biden family.
On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), released a report arguing that actually, it’s Republicans who are using their investigation of Hunter Biden to distract from news about former President Donald Trump’s crimes.
The Democratic staff memo suggests Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) released the transcript of an interview with a former FBI agent on Monday because a district attorney in Georgia was preparing to announce an indictment against Trump.
Earlier this month, the memo notes, Comer released a transcript of the committee’s interview with a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s “on the very same day that Donald Trump was arraigned on federal charges of conspiring to defraud the United States” and obstructing congressional…
