Comer claims he doesn’t care if Biden isn’t impeached — despite months-long impeachment efforts

Four months after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy moved to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his son, Hunter Biden's "business dealings" — as a result of pressure from GOP hardliners — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told CNN Sunday,"it doesn't matter to him if Biden is ultimately impeached" now.

House GOPers threatened the president's son with contempt of Congress charges after he agreed to testify in public — not behind closed doors.

According to CNN, the Kentucky lawmaker argues "his true intent is to conduct the far-reaching probe and then pursue legislation to ban influence peddling. He said that his panel would soon issue a report with criminal referrals, saying he hadn’t decided yet whether to refer the president to the Justice Department for prosecution."

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CNN notes since Hunter won't testify privately, "the GOP may simply assume what they haven’t been able to prove, that the bribery scheme actually happened."

Comer told the news outlet, "Well, I mean, if he doesn’t show up, then I guess we’ll just have to wrap it up without him and assume that these were bribes from foreign countries," emphasizing "that unproven allegations that Hunter Biden was involved in human trafficking and money laundering could also be assumed to be true."

"I would vote to impeach him, but I’m not going to lose any sleep whether he gets impeached or not because we know the Senate’s not going to convict," Comer said. "My job was never to impeach."

Hunter Biden's legal team spokesperson suggested the Kentucky lawmaker is "afraid of the facts," adding that he should "only be allowed to testify in public."

The spokesperson emphasized, “He and his Republican colleagues aren’t interested in getting any answers. They'd rather keep peddling lies and innuendo to keep this farce of an investigation going because hearing from Hunter would put it to an end."

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CNN's full report is here.