White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at the top House Oversight Committee Republican over remarks about President Biden\u2019s deceased son Beau who passed away from brain cancer in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Left-wing media pounced on the comments made by Rep. James Comer who chairs the powerful committee that has drawn a bead on the president\u2019s other son Hunter Biden who is the subject of unfolding investigations by the new GOP House majority, a clear effort to shift public opinion against the Kentucky Republican after the Daily Beast kicked off<\/a> the outrage campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his recent appearance on former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs\u2019 podcast, Comer lamented the slow progress of United States Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss who has been investigating the Biden family, at one point invoking the name of Beau Biden and alleged improprieties over campaign donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jean-Pierre was served up her opportunity to attack Comer by Daily Beast reporter Zachary Petrizzo during Wednesday\u2019s daily press briefing when he asked her for her input on the publication\u2019s big scoop, with her reply only serving to amplify the outlet\u2019s reportage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m wondering if the White House has a response to Chairman Comer invoking Beau Biden and whether the president thinks it\u2019s potentially, if the president thinks it\u2019s potentially, appropriate that Mr. Comer investigate his deceased son?\u201d Petrizzo asked Biden\u2019s top spox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo, it\u2019s completely inappropriate and it\u2019s ugly, the comments that he made,\u201d Jean-Pierre responded. \u201cAnd it says a lot about the chairman, which is not good, by the way. To make the statement that he did is incredibly ugly and inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd here\u2019s what I would say. Instead of House Republicans focusing on attacking the president, his family, why don\u2019t they actually focus on what the American people put them in office to do,\u201d she added, leaning into the contrived narrative, \u201cwhich is to deliver for them, which is to actually work with their colleagues, the Democratic colleagues, the president, to actually put forth pieces of legislation or put forth policies that\u2019s going to make a difference in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd, you know, you don\u2019t have to listen to me. You can look at the results from the midterms that said just that. They want to see, they want to see Congress working for them. That\u2019s what they want to see. They want to make sure that their Medicare is protected. They want to make sure that we\u2019re lowering costs. They want to make sure that their family feels protected. They want to make sure that their rights are protected. But that\u2019s not what House Republicans are doing. Instead, they want to do political stunts,\u201d Jean-Pierre concluded, capping off her own political stunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In their proper context, Rep. Comer\u2019s Beau Biden remarks are hardly the outrageous defamation of a deceased saint that the Daily Beast and the network of leftist operatives have portrayed them as but rather a matter-of-fact statement made in reference to the untangling of the complicated web of the Biden crime family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis U.S. attorney had had an opportunity to go after the Bidens years ago,\u201d the congressman said on Dobbs\u2019 podcast. \u201cIn fact, it was Beau Biden, the president\u2019s other son, that was involved in some campaign donations from a person that got indicted, as well as Joe Biden was involved in some of these campaign donations when he was a senator, and then when he ran for president against Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut nothing ever happened,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo I don\u2019t know much about this U.S. attorney other than he\u2019s had an opportunity to investigate the Bidens before and he chose not to. We all know that he\u2019s just been silent for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Democrat counteroffensive to the investigations of the dealings of the Bidens by the Republican-led house is in full swing, months after it was reported that a shadowy network of dark money groups was \u201cgearing up\u201d<\/a> war rooms to gaslight the American people by manipulating the narrative to defend the first family against legitimate oversight from GOP lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to one of those groups, Facts First USA, \u201cLacking a forward-looking agenda, the new MAGA-Majority in the House of Representatives will spend the next two years aggressively investigating President Biden, members of the Administration, and the President\u2019s family. They will do so without regard to facts, without concern for fairness, and without limitation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey seek to grind down the entire executive branch and to engage in political theatre and character assassination that distracts from real issues, creates a false perception of corruption, runs up legal bills, and threatens the livelihoods of those caught in their web of lies,\u201d the group states on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the Daily Beast and Jean-Pierre\u2019s faux moral preening, Comer and fellow Oversight Republicans aren\u2019t just kicking a dead man for their personal enjoyment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n