EVELYN HOCKSTEIN
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new House Oversight Committee Chairman who lamented this week that President Joe Biden’s dead son was never prosecuted in a long-settled campaign financing case, has now tried to claim he said no such thing.
In an appearance on former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs’ podcast on Tuesday, Comer bemoaned that U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, never indicted Beau Biden in a campaign financing scandal in which Biden was cleared of wrongdoing.
That scandal involved contributions made by Delaware liquor executive Christopher Tigani during the 2000s, including to Joe Biden’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. But Beau Biden, the former Delaware attorney general who died of a brain tumor in 2015, recused himself from a state probe into the matter, and an independent special prosecutor found that the Bidens, among other lawmakers, had unknowingly received straw donations. Tigani was eventually convicted.