Swalwell Rips Biden Oversight Hearing: ‘I Had Secondhand Embarrassment For Comer and Jordan’

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) laced into Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) late Thursday night while dismissing their committee’s impeachment inquiry hearing held earlier in the day.

The House Oversight Committee convened for its first such hearing into President Joe Biden, whose son Hunter Biden is front and center of the inquiry. Comer and Jordan long maintained that the elder Biden has been mixed up in Hunter’s foreign business dealings to the point of illegality.

They have yet to present evidence to sustain their claims.

The hearing was widely panned across the spectrum, including on the right, where Steve Bannon questioned Comer’s decision to call law professor Jonathan Turley to testify. During the hearing, Turley – a Fox News mainstay – promptly cast doubt on the endeavor.

Afterward, Comer appeared to tacitly admit the hearing had been a bust.

“This hearing wasn’t supposed to be about fireworks and bells and whistles,” he told reporters.

Appearing on CNN Tonight, Swalwell piled on.

“This hearing was not about the American people, who are just hours away from a shutdown where our troops will not get paid, border agents will not get paid, FBI agents, air traffic controllers will not get paid,” he began, referring to the looming government shutdown. The Republican-controlled House has so far been unable to agree on legislation to keep the government funded beyond the Sept. 30 deadline.

Swalwell said the hearing was nothing but theater designed to please former President Donald Trump, who has demanded Biden’s impeachment:

But instead, we got a show where the American people saw the Titanic of congressional hearings, where the Republican-called witnesses said there is nothing there. But the hearing was really for one person, not any single American other than the former president because this Congress has become the insurrection LLP law firm where they work every day on behalf of one client.

But it was embarrassing. I had secondhand embarrassment for Comer and Jordan and the Ways and Means chair because they had nothing. Their own witnesses said they had nothing. And again, the tragedy here, the cost here is that the American people who want their government to work for them saw a complete show that went nowhere and no progress and keeping the government open.

Watch above via CNN.