Comer On Biden’s Doc Scandal: ‘He’s Also Being Investigated For Influence Peddling With Our Adversaries’

James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee (Republican-Ky), stated Monday in an interview that President Joe Biden was being investigated for allegedly “influence peddling with our adversaries.”

Comer made the remarks during an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends First” while discussing Biden’s classified document scandal.

Comer said that the National Archives was coming before the committee this week to answer questions surrounding the classified materials that were found in Biden’s Delaware home and former office at a think-tank in Washington, D.C.

When asked, if it was “normal” Comer asked vice presidents to bring their notebooks with the them when they leave office for the position Biden was in at the time that the documents were taken. “No, nothing that Joe Biden has done with respect to mishandling these classified documents is normal.”

“Take into consideration that he’s also being investigated for influence peddling with our adversaries around the world,” Comer continued. “And it’s even more concerning look, more information comes out every day, where his son, especially as well as his two brothers, have had shady business dealings with our adversaries around the world.”

“And part of what they would do when they would make a pitch to these shady characters in these foreign countries is prove to them that they actually had direct access to their brother and that they had direct access to people at the highest levels of our federal government,” He continued. “So when we learned that Joe Biden had classified documents spread all over the place, and that Hunter Biden especially lived in his house where he had those classified documents, we became extra concerned. And that’s why this investigation is of the utmost importance for the United States Congress as well as the American people.”

FOX NEWS – Kentucky Congressman James Comer chairs the House Oversight Committee. He joins us right now. What are you doing this morning, James Comer? We appreciate you getting up for this morning.

JAMES COMER – Good morning.

FOX NEWS: So, you know, there’s a lot of people who were saying there was maybe some handwritten scratch notes in these notebooks that were found in Biden’s house in Delaware. But then there was that NBC, I believe it was an NBC report saying that, you know, he’s not moving these notebooks around. Don’t you think that’s even more concerning? Because yet again, it’s just proving the point that who knows who had access to these documents?

COMER: Yeah, who knows, I think it’s a bigger concern that Joe Biden didn’t know he had the documents, and he has no idea how the documents got from point A to point B to point C, that’s what should concern every American. We’re bringing in the National Archives tomorrow for a transcribed interview. We’re going to ask all of these questions, and hopefully we’ll have some answers for the American people very soon.

FOX NEWS: Is it normal for VP’s to take their notebooks with them when they leave office?

COMER: Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents is not normal. Take into consideration that he’s also being investigated for influence peddling with our adversaries around the world. And it’s even more concerning, look, more information comes out every day, where his son, especially as well as his two brothers, have had shady business dealings with our adversaries around the world. They would also try to prove that they had direct access and access to the top federal officials when pitching these unscrupulous characters from foreign countries. When we found out that Joe Biden had classified papers spread around the country, and that Hunter Biden stayed in his home, we were even more concerned. And that’s why this this investigation is of the utmost importance for the United States Congress as well as the American people.

FOX NEWS: And that gets us to our next topic, several former Twitter executives are set to testify before the House Oversight Committee next week, on big Tech’s role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. A lot of people, there’s a narrative out there saying, you know, we don’t care about Hunter Biden’s laptop, how are you going to switch that notion over to being like, ‘No, this isn’t just exactly about Hunter Biden, this is about the sitting president’?

COMER: This is an investigation into Joe Biden. The laptop contains a substantial amount of evidence that would not just implicate them in influence peddling but also the president of the United States. We want this hearing to start with to show the American public what evidence is on this laptop.