{"id":1943788,"date":"2023-06-04T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-oversight-democrat-dismisses-investigation-into-biden-bribery-charges-alleging-political-motives\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:55:44","slug":"top-oversight-democrat-dismisses-investigation-into-biden-bribery-charges-alleging-political-motives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-oversight-democrat-dismisses-investigation-into-biden-bribery-charges-alleging-political-motives\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Democrat Dismisses Biden Bribery Investigation as Politically Motivated."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-oversight-democrat-dismisses-investigation-into-biden-bribery-charges-alleging-political-motives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democrats Dismiss Republicans\u2019 Investigation into Bribery Charges Against President Biden<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re really interested in is holding the FBI director in contempt, not in getting a document that [Republicans] say they\u2019ve already seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, has dismissed Republicans\u2019 ongoing investigation into bribery charges against President Joe Biden, which he said is politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>In an escalating confrontation with the FBI, Republicans on the Oversight Committee led by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) have demanded access to a document alleging that Biden took a criminal bribe from a foreign national. However, the specific charges listed in the document remain unclear due to the FBI\u2019s apparent reluctance to release the document publicly.<\/p>\n<p>During a June 4 appearance on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d program, Raskin expressed skepticism about Republicans\u2019 true intentions in the investigation.<\/p>\n<h3>Accusations and Skepticism<\/h3>\n<p>Raskin accused the majority of \u201cclosing out\u201d Democrats and said he\u2019s uncertain about the contents of the document because of this. Nevertheless, Raskin said his understanding of the document\u2019s content stems from public reporting, which suggests a connection to Hunter Biden\u2019s business activities in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin cited skepticism expressed by former Attorney General Bill Barr towards these allegations and opined that Republicans are now \u201cgoing back to recycle these unfounded accusations,\u201d which he dismissed as \u201callegations that went nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raskin also accused Comer of admitting that these investigations aim to improve Trump\u2019s poll numbers\u2014an assertion echoed by the White House\u2014despite Comer not explicitly stating that as the reason for the investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey keep changing the demand in order to \u2026 find fault with FBI Director Wray,\u201d Raskin said. \u201cWhich is why what I say, what they\u2019re really going after is a contempt citation against him, and it\u2019s all part of what Chairman Comer admitted was an effort to get Donald Trump\u2019s poll numbers up.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>FBI\u2019s Response<\/h3>\n<p>The FBI has faced accusations of withholding the document to protect Biden, with some Republicans accusing the agency of politicizing the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI responded by stating its commitment to cooperate in good faith, saying it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-oversight-democrat-dismisses-investigation-into-biden-bribery-charges-alleging-political-motives\/\" title=\"Top Democrat Dismisses Biden Bribery Investigation as Politically Motivated.\">made extraordinary accommodations made<\/a> to meet Comer\u2019s request while maintaining confidentiality and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carlos-del-toro-confirmed-as-secretary-of-the-navy\/\" title=\"Carlos Del Toro confirmed as secretary of the Navy\">protecting national security interests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a letter to Chairman Comer earlier today, the FBI committed to providing access to information responsive to the Committee\u2019s subpoena in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-explains-wray-added-another-condition-for-producing-biden-documents\/\" title=\"Wray set new requirement for releasing Biden files, says Comer.\">protects important security interests<\/a> and the integrity of FBI investigations,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Despite Republicans\u2019 demands, Raskin believes that their true intentions are to hold the FBI director in contempt, rather than to obtain the document they claim to have already seen. With accusations and skepticism on both sides, the investigation into bribery charges against President Biden remains a politically charged issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) rejected the GOP&#8217;s probe into bribery allegations against President Joe Biden, calling it politically driven. The Oversight Committee&#8217;s Republicans, led by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), have been in a heated dispute with the FBI, demanding access to a document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1943789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7614,8981,3620,20427,4912,4833,3976],"class_list":["post-1943788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-politically","tag-motivated","tag-biden","tag-bribery","tag-democrat","tag-dismisses","tag-investigation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}