GOP needs to investigate Biden family corruption

 Washington Times:

As Republicans and Democrats are examining the results of the November elections, including Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s convincing victory in Virginia, it is clear that campaigning on issues close to the heart of the American people will bring real political results in 2022 and 2024. However, the Republicans should not ignore the matters of integrity and government transparency and questions about corruption at the highest levels of U.S. politics.

Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s registered foreign agent. Similarly, Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton’s half-brother, was paid by the Gambino mafia family figure, for whom he allegedly tried to arrange a pardon, and was then himself pardoned by his half-brother Bill for a videotaped cocaine sale to an FBI agent. Until professionally resolved by an honest investigation, Hunter Biden’s business adventures in Ukraine and China will degrade the image of transparency and integrity in his father’s administration. 

That degradation will further impair the Biden administration’s ability to defend American national interests in a world full of geostrategic challenges. As it is unlikely Joe Biden’s Justice Department will honestly investigate the President’s son, it falls to Congress to undertake the cleaning of these Augean stables.

U.S. Congress did not investigate Hunter’s business ventures, his computer information, and the links to then-Vice President Biden. The data from Hunter’s computer hard drive had also revealed how his father’s name helped him establish business connections in some of the world’s most corrupt capitals.

We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden appeared to use his father’s name, then-President Obama’s vice president, to drum up business. Hunter became a member of the board of directors of the Ukrainian oil and gas corporation Burisma, receiving millions of dollars. 

Last year, Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, from the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who helms the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a grave report that calls for further investigation. 

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The Biden family has been monetizing the offices held by Joe Biden for years.  An investigation would have the added benefit of forcing Democrats to acknowledge the corruption or defend it. 

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