White House: McCarthy lied on Fox News to advertise ‘baseless impeachment stunt’

The White House cried foul Tuesday on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, accusing the California Republican of mendacity about President Biden on Fox News and caving to “far-right” members on an impeachment inquiry in opposition to the president.

Mr. McCarthy appeared on Monday evening’s “Hannity” program, the place he spoke about an growing curiosity in pursuing an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over accusations that the president was concerned in a pay-to-play bribery scheme by his son Hunter Biden’s former employer, Ukrainian power firm Burisma.

“This isn’t about Hunter Biden, it’s about ‘paying-to-play’ with the Biden family,” Mr. McCarthy stated.

Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House, accused Mr. McCarthy on Tuesday of mendacity.

He stated that the speaker made a “series of plainly false, widely debunked attacks” to proceed pushing for an impeachment inquiry that “even some members of McCarthy’s own caucus are expressing concerns about pursuing.”

Mr. Sams contended that Mr. McCarthy lied concerning the Biden administration obstructing House Republican investigations by evaluating the Biden administration to the Nixon administration in shutting down House Republicans at any time when that they had a query.  

Mr. Sams stated that the claims have been “demonstrably false,” significantly as a result of the Treasury Department supplied entry to information, and the FBI supplied the House Oversight Committee with an FD-1023 kind, which incorporates uncooked, unverified info from human sources.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Kentucky Republican, accused the Treasury Department of stonewalling requests for suspicious exercise studies, or SARs, associated to Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings earlier this yr, having to go as far as to threaten a listening to over the matter.

Mr. Comer additionally needed to begin proceedings to carry FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for withholding the FD-1023 doc. Mr. Wray solely relented nearly instantly earlier than the ball would have been set in movement, and allowed the committee entry to the doc.

The doc was nonetheless not made public till Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, launched it final month.

The FD-1023 incorporates info that Republicans say hyperlinks Mr. Biden to a pay-to-play bribery scheme by the president’s son with Burisma.

Mr. Sams pointed to testimony from Hunter Biden’s enterprise affiliate Devon Archer, who testified that he “disagreed with the allegations in the form” about Burisma executives planning to pay the Bidens $5 million every.

Mykola Zlochevsky, the previous proprietor of Burisma, additionally denied any contact with the elder Mr. Biden, who was then the vice chairman.