Comer again fails to incriminate Biden with new impeachment inquiry witness: transcript

Republican Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (KY) interviewed more witnesses for the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry — and transcripts reveal they still haven't been able to find anything conclusive.

A transcript posted by the White House's spokesman for Oversight and Investigations Ian Sams showed that art dealer George Bergès spoke to the committee, but he claimed he got nothing political or influential for selling Hunter Biden's artwork.

Republicans had suggested there was impropriety because the president's son wanted to know who was buying his artwork when it was purchased — a suggestion that wasn't backed up by the witness.

He went on to tell the committee he was "surprised" to see a report in 2021 saying that staff at the White House helped "craft an agreement" creating a kind of "firewall" between Biden and art buyers.

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Jen Psaki, who was still working as President Joe Biden's press secretary at the time, explained that it was a “system” allowing Hunter Biden to sell his work “within reasonable safeguards."

According to a White House transcript of the briefing, Psaki told reporters, “He will not know, we will not know, who purchases his art.”

Bergès said that he attended an event where he exchanged pleasantries with the president.

Last week, it was reported that a friend of Hunter Biden's, who loaned him about $5 million, also testified before House investigators. According to that friend, Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, he was never on the receiving end of any political quid pro quo.

Morris told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that the money was given to help a newly sober friend he thought of as a "brother," the Messenger reported.

“Kevin Morris’s massive financial support to Hunter Biden raises ethical and campaign finance concerns for President Joe Biden," Comer said in a statement before the interview.

But when he testified to the committee, it became clear that the loan from Morris to Biden had heavy strings attached, was crafted by lawyers, and accrued interest payments.

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks pointed to the interviews as another example that the GOP has nothing they can use to impeach the president.

"Everyone already knew there is nothing supporting Republicans' impeachment inquiry except Republicans and Fox viewers," she posted on social media.

See the screen captures highlighted by Sams in the post below:

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