Former Clinton hatchetman and current co-anchor of ABC’s This Week George Stephanopoulos showed how chronic his Trump derangement syndrome is during an interview when House Republican oversight chairman James Comer brought up his committee’s intention to investigate Hunter Biden and the entire Biden family’s business dealings overseas. All Stephanopoulos could do is try to bring up the Trump family and a partisan hit piece in the leftist rag The Washington Post.
“Let me ask you about your oversight responsibilities,” Stephanopoulos prefaced by saying. “You made it clear you are going to be looking at Hunter Biden,and his financial entanglements with foreign countries including China.”
He then put up a front page story from The Washington Post that was in Sunday’s paper titled “After helping prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner benefit from Saudi funds.”
“A two billion dollar investment in Kushner’s funds from the Saudi’s we know the President–former President Trump has also received funds related to the Saudi golf tour,” he added.
Stephanopoulos then asked Comer that since “Senator Ron Wyden says these entanglements deserve investigation. Will you be investigating that as well?”
“I think everything's on the table,” Comer insisted.
“We're investigating Joe Biden. We know that Joe Biden said during the presidential campaign that he had no knowledge of his son's business interests. He wasn't involved. He didn't benefit from them. We have evidence that would suggest otherwise, and this is very concerning,” he added.
Comer was extremely reasonable in his solutions saying that “there's a legislative solution to this, and it can be bipartisan. The Democrats complained about Kushner's foreign dealings. Republicans are certainly complaining about the entire Biden family's foreign business dealings.”
“We need to have strict ethics laws and we need to significantly increase the disclosure laws in America,” Comer admitted “So I think this investigation is going to be very important to fix a problem before it gets out of hand.”
That answer wasn’t good enough for the Democrat operative disguised as a network news anchor, Stephanopoulos demanded to know if “this should apply to Kushner and Trump as well as the Bidens at this point?”
“I believe that when we talk about passing legislation to set a line as to where you can be with relatives of high-ranking government officials with respect to doing business with adversaries overseas, then it would apply to everyone. We need to fix this before it gets worse in the next administration,” Comer responded.
Once a Democrat Party operative, always a Democrat Party operative. Stephanopoulos should have no credibility as a fair and balanced host. Republicans should beware when they go on.
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The transcript is below:
ABC’s This Week
2/12/2023
9:17:05 a.m. EasternGEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you about your oversight responsibilities. You made it clear you are going to be looking at Hunter Biden,and his financial entanglements with foreign countries including China. I want to put up a front page story from The Washington Post this morning, detailing Jared Kushner's ties to the Saudis. After helping prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner benefit from Saudi funds. A two billion dollar investment in Kushner’s funds from the Saudi’s we know the President -- former President Trump has also received funds related to the Saudi golf tour. Senator Ron Wyden says these entanglements deserve investigation. Will you be investigating that as well?
JAMES COMER: I think everything's on the table. Look. We're investigating Joe Biden. We know that Joe Biden said during the presidential campaign that he had no knowledge of his son's business interests. He wasn't involved. He didn't benefit from them. We have evidence that would suggest otherwise, and this is very concerning.
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COMER: There's a legislative solution to this, and it can be bipartisan. The Democrats complained about Kushner's foreign dealings. Republicans are certainly complaining about the entire Biden family's foreign business dealings. We need to know what is allowable, and what isn't allowable. We need to have strict ethics laws and we need to significantly increase the disclosure laws in America. So I think this investigation is going to be very important to fix a problem before it gets out of hand.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So to be clear, you believe that this should apply to Kushner and Trump as well as the Bidens at this point?
COMER: I believe that when we talk about passing legislation to set a line as to where you can be with relatives of high-ranking government officials with respect to doing business with adversaries overseas, then it would apply to everyone. We need to fix this before it gets worse in the next administration.
