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Most Republicans, including leaders in the House, assiduously avoid extending their stated worries about the Bidens.

You are incensed that Hunter Biden was taking money from foreign interests while his father was vice president? Well, I have some unhappy news for you about the Trump Organization andThis is not to excuse Hunter Biden’s engagements, certainly, particularly should significant evidence emerge that Joe Biden was intentionally leveraging his power to aid his son or himself economically. It is instead to note that Republicans are far more willing to criticize Biden than Trump for comparable actions.

Christie, himself a long-shot candidate for the 2024 nomination, was being interviewed by SiriusXM’s Steve Scully during an event in New Hampshire. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had announced that his caucus would“I think there should be an inquiry made about what has gone on with the Bidens’ business situations,” Christie said, “but I think they can do that through their oversight function.” He noted that U.S.

“Look, the last two presidencies have been, what appears to the American people to be, in some respects, kind of an ongoing grift,” Christie continued. “I mean, you know, you’ve got Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump making 40-plus million dollars a year while they’re serving in the White House.

He outlined other unusual activities by Trump that benefited his family, prompting Scully to ask him to put a fine point on his argument.“I mean, when you pay your son’s girlfriend 60 grand out of campaign money to give a three-minute speech” — during Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 rally — “you’re using money … donated by people who wanted to fund him to fight the ‘stolen election,’ ” Christie said.

Concluding his assessment, Christie again pointed to the billions of dollars Jared Kushner had taken in after transitioning out of the White House.When Republicans took over control of the House in January, McCarthy handed the reins of the House Oversight Committee to Rep. James Comer . He’s been

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