{"id":1980310,"date":"2023-07-22T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-comer-says-he-doesnt-want-a-special-counsel-appointed\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T17:24:44","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-comer-says-he-doesnt-want-a-special-counsel-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-comer-says-he-doesnt-want-a-special-counsel-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer opposes special counsel for Hunter Biden probe."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-investigation-comer-says-he-doesnt-want-a-special-counsel-appointed%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=1980310&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>The Chairman of the\u200d House Oversight and Accountability Committee\u2063 Rejects Special Counsel for Hunter Biden Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>The chairman of the House Oversight\u200c and \u200cAccountability Committee, which has taken a leading role in the House\u2019s inquiry into Hunter Biden,\u200c is \u2063not fond\u2063 of\u200c the idea of \u2062a special counsel being appointed to investigate the president\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. James Comer (R-KY), \u200cchairman of the Oversight Committee, \u2064said \u200dhe\u200b doesn\u2019t want to see\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawyer-who-suggested-trump-colluded-with-russia-in-2016-might-be-indicted-for-lying-to-the-fbi-report\/\" title=\"Lawyer Who Suggested Trump Colluded With Russia In 2016 Might Be Indicted For Lying To The FBI: REPORT\">special counsel appointed<\/a> by the Department of Justice to\u200d investigate Hunter\u200d Biden because his committee, along \u200bwith House Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees, are already doing the\u200b work.<\/p>\n<h3>No Confidence \u2062in Special\u200c Counsels<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI have\u2062 no confidence in special counsels,\u201d Comer \u2063said this week. \u201cI\u2062 have no confidence in Merrick Garland to\u200c appoint\u2064 an independent, credible, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-comer-says-he-doesnt-want-a-special-counsel-appointed\/\" title=\"Comer opposes special counsel for Hunter Biden probe.\">unbiased special counsel<\/a>. I think we&#8217;re making\u2062 a lot of progress \u200bin our investigation. So, we&#8217;re gonna \u2063continue to plow forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This follows the trend of Republicans in the\u200c House believing the DOJ is corrupted by politics and\u2062 worked to \u200dprotect Hunter Biden \u200bduring their\u200b investigation into him, leaving the trust they have in the agency very slim.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers, supervisory\u2064 agent Gary\u2062 Shapley \u200band special agent Joe Ziegler, testified before \u2062the Oversight Committee on their past testimony, which alleged the DOJ significantly interfered\u200c with their criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. They alleged the DOJ blocked the lead U.S. Attorney on the case, David Weiss\u2019s, request for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ag-bill-barr-to-merrick-garland-appoint-a-special-counsel-already\/\" title=\"Former AG Bill Barr To Merrick Garland: Appoint A Special Counsel Already\">special counsel status<\/a>, prevented them from \u200cinterviewing Hunter Biden, blocked their access to \u200bBiden\u2019s infamous laptop, and \u200callowed the \u200bstatute of limitations to run out on \u2062more tax charges than what he plans to plead guilty \u200btoo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON \u200bEXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This testimony has significantly hurt the trust that Republican members have in\u2064 the DOJ, which in turn affects their \u2064trust in any \u200dkind\u200b of special counsel.<\/p>\n<p>And \u200cHouse Republicans view that they are already doing\u2062 the work of a\u2062 special counsel by investigating and uncovering more\u2062 information about Hunter\u2063 Biden and the rest of the Biden family than the DOJ had previously released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>special counsel appointed to investigate Hunter Biden, as his committee is already leading the House&#8217;s inquiry. 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James Comer (R-KY), the committee&#8217;s chairman, expressed his disapproval of the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980311,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1980310","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}