By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
Lawmakers are demanding records related to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s use of Air Force Two, the federal plane reserved for the Vice President, saying he used the taxpayer-funded plane to fly his son Hunter Biden around the world.
Hunter Biden faces an array of legal challenges related to allegations of gun, tax and foreign influence crimes. Mounting evidence suggests that the president may have been aware and even aided his son’s overseas deals.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration demanding the relevant travel records for how Air Force Two was used.
“Then-Vice President Joe Biden abused Air Force Two by allowing his son to jet set around the world to sell ‘The Brand’ to enrich the Biden family,” Comer said in the letter. “This is yet another example of then-Vice President Biden abusing his public office for his family’s financial gain.”
NARA is the same federal group to alert the Department of Justice when former President Donald Trump allegedly held on to classified documents, which eventually lead to an indictment of the former president.
Comer released financial documents earlier this month that he says back up allegations that the Biden family and associates received more than $20 from entities in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, China and Russia.
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As The Center Square previously reported, IRS whistleblowers also recently testified before Congress saying they documented nearly $20 million in payments from foreign entities. They also testified that the DOJ interfered with the investigation on Hunter’s behalf.
Comer now points to Fox News reporting that Hunter Biden traveled to 15 different countries using the taxpayer-funded Air Force 2.
Donalds called it a misuse of taxpayer funds.
“The American people deserve to know how much their former Vice President and current President abused his power to shake down foreign governments and enrich his family to the tune of millions of dollars,” Donalds said.
Comer has also pushed for accountability for President Biden, pointing to testimony suggesting that Biden knew what Hunter was doing in his overseas dealings and even helped him do it. The president has denied repeatedly he benefited from any deals of this kind.
“Then-Vice President Biden’s misuse of Air Force Two and Marine Two is indicative of yet another way in which the President has abused his various offices of public trust and wasted taxpayer money to benefit his family’s enterprise, which consisted of nothing more than access to Joe Biden himself,” the letter said.
“Devon Archer, a longtime Biden family associate, has stated it is ‘categorically false’ that Joe Biden played no role in his son’s foreign business dealings,” it continued. “Flights on Air Force Two around the world to seal business deals are evidence of that role.”
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
Do we not have any honest politicians anymore. I think if we did Joe and Hunter both would be serving time for all the corruption and crookedness of the Biden family. This has been going on for years and probably still is,
Investigations are complete, so why is Congress sitting on their hands instead of Jailing these criminals?? Get off your butts and put them in Jail NOW!!!
so you claim hunter to be a regular citizen
so why can I not fly around on AIR FORCE 2 also at taxpayers expense since I pay taxes I should be able to joy fly like hunter
Every penny that was used of tax payers money should be returned at once and they should be prosecuted
Okay you have all the facts and proof that Biden is “as crooked as a dog’s hind leg”. When are you going to get off you asses and throw this “dip shit” in jail??? The time for more investigations is way past due. DO IT NOW!!!!!
JERK-OFF JOE STRIKES AGAIN!!!
The Bidens are corrupt, dishonest and hypocritical. They stand by and encourage leftist judges and DAs to indict and try Republicans including but not just Donald Trump, and that is fine with them, while they go on breaking the law and abusing the rights and privileges of the presidency. Democrats have no shame and no conscience, they think they are entitled to win using every dirty trick they can dream up. The whole party should be voted out of existence. To hell in a handbasket, so to speak. Out damn spot.
i’ll be guessin , the crew was on crack