Amid expectations that Republicans will prioritize investigations into Hunter Biden upon likely earning a House majority, one newly elected GOP House member says doing so would be “hyperpartisan” and a mistake.
“If parts of our party want to go into these investigations, that’s their prerogative,” Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) told Fox News’s Sandra Smith on Monday when asked about possible further investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, COVID-19 origins, social media censorship, the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid, and other items.
“I don’t want to waste my time in Washington engaging in hyperpartisan issues,” said Santos, who trounced Democratic candidate Robert Zimmerman. “I want to come here to deliver results. We can be part of investigations so long as it doesn’t clutter and sway us from the goal, which is making Americans’ lives better or not worse.”
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The U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware is currently investigating Hunter Biden for possible tax violations and an allegedly false statement he made related to a gun purchase. Republicans seek to focus their investigations on President Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings in the United States, Ukraine, China, and other countries.
Santos clarified later that the investigations Republicans are interested in are not a waste of time but rather should not be a top priority.
“I think that for at least the first six months, we should work on making this country energy independent, we should work on reducing crime across metropolitan areas, such as New York City, and then we can start talking about investigations,” said Santos.
Still, the reelections of Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) mean Hunter Biden investigations and FBI oversight in the Senate will continue — despite Democrats retaining control of the chamber with key wins in Nevada and Arizona.
But with Republicans just one seat away from taking the House, another investigation led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, is poised to gain more traction. Comer, who said this month that Republicans are “prepared to subpoena Hunter Biden,” is likely to become chairman of the Oversight Committee in a GOP majority.
“Hunter Biden has particularly benefited from his father’s political career,” says a statement from Comer on the Oversight Committee’s website under a “Biden Family Investigation” tab.
“Despite having no demonstrable qualifications, Hunter Biden has managed a Ukrainian energy conglomerate, helped facilitate the sale of a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from an American company to a Chinese company, brokered a deal for an oil pipeline in Kazakhstan, provided counsel on the intricacies of Romanian criminal law, and began a career in the arts as an amateur painter,” the statement adds.
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The FBI agents investigating Hunter Biden concluded months ago that he should be charged, according to multiple reports. But U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the prosecutor in Delaware handling the Justice Department’s case, is the one who will decide whether this occurs.
In October, Grassley and Johnson sent Weiss over 200 pages of investigative documents in connection to Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
