{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://comer.house.gov/2023/11/comer-on-sunday-morning-futures-joe-biden-benefitted-from-his-family-s-influence-peddling-schemes", "Comer on Sunday Morning Futures: Joe Biden Benefitted from His Family\u2019s Influence Peddling Schemes", "2023-11-06", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "KY", "James Comer", "C001108", "comer.house.gov", "comer", "https://comer.house.gov/media", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact:Austin Hacker\n\nComer on Sunday Morning Futures: Joe Biden Benefitted from His Family\u2019s Influence Peddling Schemes\n\nComer discusses next steps: \u201cI would predict somewhere around two dozen subpoenas in the very near future.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON\u2014\u201cWhat we have proven in the last two weeks with the checks to Joe Biden is Joe Biden benefitted directly from his family\u2019s shady influence peddling scheme,\u201d House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said on \u201cSunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. Chairman Comer outlined how Joe Biden lied to the American people about his knowledge of and participation in his family\u2019s shady business dealings and how he personally benefited from them. Comer also announced that subpoenas will soon be issued.\n\nOn bank records memoranda showing Joe Biden benefited from laundered China money earned by his family cashing in on his name:\n\n\u201cWe traced the $40,000 check that Joe Biden received all the way back to that WhatsApp message where Hunter Biden claimed his father was sitting beside him while he was shaking down the Chinese operative. That\u2019s where that $40,000 was triggered.\n\n\u201cJust a few weeks after that text message, that $40,000 landed in Joe Biden\u2019s pocket after the Biden\u2019s laundered it. But that money came from China \u2013 further evidence that Joe Biden benefited from his family\u2019s influence peddling scheme.\u201d\n\nREAD MORE: Comer Reveals How Joe Biden Received Laundered China Money\n\nOn issuing subpoenas to the Bidens:\n\n\u201cThis has been a painful process. We\u2019ve been obstructed, we\u2019ve been fought at every turn not just by the Bidens\u2019 big money attorneys, but also by the federal government. The IRS has obstructed, the DOJ has obstructed, the Treasury has obstructed, FBI has obstructed, and the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have pretty much been the Biden legal defense team.\n\nComer continued, \u201cI would predict somewhere around two dozen subpoenas in the very near future.\u201d\n\nREAD MORE: Chairman Comer Subpoenas Hunter & James Biden\u2019s Personal and Business Bank Records\n\nOn the Bidens claiming payments were \u201cloans\u201d to avoid reporting them on taxes:\n\n\u201cThe reason they did these complicated transactions was to disguise the source of the revenue and to deceive the IRS from paying taxes. What you\u2019re going to see in the coming weeks are a lot of loans. Anytime the Bidens have money, they\u2019re going to claim it was a loan, because you don\u2019t have to report loans on your taxes.\n\nJoe Biden lied to the American people when he said he had nothing to do with his family\u2019s business dealings.\n\n\u201cI can\u2019t emphasize this enough. This was a very organized criminal scheme by the Bidens. Here\u2019s the problem for Joe Biden. He lied about his knowledge and involvement of his family\u2019s shady influence peddling schemes.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve proven the family was influence peddling. Even the Democrats and the media won\u2019t touch that. We have proven the Bidens were influence peddling. Now what we\u2019re looking at is Joes involvement.\n\n\u201cWhat we have proven in the last two weeks with the checks to Joe Biden is Joe Biden benefitted directly from his family\u2019s shady influence peddling scheme.\u201d\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nWSJ Opinion: Oversight Committee Evidence Proves Joe Biden Benefitted From His Family Cashing In On His Name", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://comer.house.gov/2023/11/comer-on-sunday-morning-futures-joe-biden-benefitted-from-his-family-s-influence-peddling-schemes"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8485840409994125, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}