United States Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) on Sunday ripped into House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) for continuing to pursue testimony from supposed Hunter Biden informant Gal Luft, whom the Justice Department indicted on July 10th on eight federal felonies.
The crimes of which Luft is accused carry a combined maximum sentence of one hundred years.
Image via the United States Department of Justice.
Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Raskin lamented the collapse of the GOP's credibility and attributed its descent into chaos to its fusion with unscrupulous individuals.
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"What questions, what information are you seeking about James Comer's involvement with Luft and what do you really wanna know?" Psaki asked.
"Well, look, Gal Luft was supposed to be the star witness in arraigning Joe Biden on the old Giuliani charges of a fake Ukrainian bribery scandal," Raskin replied. "And it turns out that Luft was missing as Chairman Comer kept saying. The reason he was missing is because he's a fugitive from justice. He's on the run around the world away from the US government, and this was going to be the star witness against Joe Biden. And what I'm afraid has happened, Jen, is that the Trump party has created such a topsy-turvy world that we're getting real low-life characters like George Santos, like Donald Trump, like Gal Luft who say, I think I'm gonna be able to launder all of my crimes and wrap myself in the production of the Republican Party."
Psaki observed that "they see targets of people they could go after to help them," to which Raskin exclaimed, "That's right!"
Psaki questioned Raskin, "And so how concerned are you that James Comer, the chairman of the committee, was knowingly, unknowingly working with — co-opted by a foreign agent?"
Raskin explained that he is "concerned that the House Oversight Committee — which has a very proud history with, you know, Congressman Waxman as Chair, the great Elijah Cummings of Maryland as chair — is suddenly being compromised in a really serious way. Our legitimacy is being eroded by the tactics adopted by Chairman Comer. They essentially have said, we will validate anybody who will say anything about the Bidens. And of course, they haven't laid a glove on President Biden. There are real issues that are confronting our people, and they're off on this wild goose chase related to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and their main witnesses are people who are fleeing justice in America."
Watch the exchange below or at this link.
