McCarthy, R-Calif., said Wray – who previously served as then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney during the George Washington BridgeGate scandal – initially would not acknowledge the …
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy firmly pledged on Monday that contempt-of-Congress charges will be filed Thursday against FBI Director Christopher Wray if he does not present the entire House Oversight Committee a document a whistleblower purportedly alleges that then-Vice President Biden engaged in “bribe[s]” with a foreign national.
“He will be held in contempt if he doesn’t do what is responsible to do,” McCarthy told “Jesse Watters Primetime.”“Remember, in the Commitment to America, Republicans said we’d go and make sure we had accountability and transparency. We had a whistleblower come before us and say that he’d gone to the FBI about hearing of a $5 million bribe from a foreign individual to then-Vice President Biden and then talked about sending money to LLC’s and others,” McCarthy added.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said FBI Director Christopher Wray will be “held in contempt if he doesn’t do what is responsible to do.”The Speaker said a phone call with Wray followed, where he was told he will be held in contempt if he doesn’t cooperate with Congress’ full authority. The document the whistleblower purportedly alleges about then-Vice President Biden, contains information on him engaging in bribes with a foreign national.McCarthy said Secretary of State Antony Blinken is separately risking the same type of issue in regard to documents about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
McCarthy said the director should indeed be concerned, and that the document was finally acknowledged more fully after contempt was put on the table.
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