Biden Team Torpedoes GOP Probers Claiming Obstruction In Blistering Memo: ‘Easily Refuted By The Facts’
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President Joe Biden’s investigations czar has dropped a blistering memo after Republicans accused the White House of “obstructing” or “stonewalling” the House probe into the president and his family.
At issue are complaints emerging from the investigation that House Republicans have expanded into an impeachment inquiry despite widespread acknowledgment by journalists and even other Republicans that there is “no evidence” of wrongdoing by President Biden. Some Republicans say the White House has “stonewalled” or obstructed the probes.
White House Spokesman for Investigations Ian Sams hit back Friday morning with a memo detailing the extent of the White House’s cooperation that opened by citing Republicans themselves:
Extreme House Republicans have spent the entire year investigating President Biden, and over and over again, they have failed to turn up any evidence of wrongdoing. In fact, their own witnesses and documents have time after time debunked their false allegations.
Faced with this level of “failure theater,” these same extreme House Republicans now appear to be trying to invent claims of “obstruction” and “stonewalling” to rationalize their illegitimate so- called “impeachment inquiry.”
Some House Republicans are even leaning on these false claims as a predicate to vote to formally authorize such an inquiry.
The problem: Claims of “obstruction” and “stonewalling” are easily refuted by the facts. Those House Republicans don’t have to simply take our word for it: They should listen to comments from their own colleagues, such as Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer who has bragged on TV that he has received “100% of what we’ve requested” and even said “we’re in the downhill phase of this investigation now because we have so many documents.”
As the Washington Post reported this week, “So far, the Biden administration has largely cooperated with the House GOP’s various oversight efforts.”
Read the full memo here via The White House.
