How Joe Biden became America’s obstructor-in-chief

In his final days at the White House, President Biden is preparing to deliver multiple speeches in an effort to shape his legacy. But make no mistake: the history books on Joe Biden are already written.

Let’s rewind for a moment back to January 2023, when the House Oversight Committee began to investigate Biden’s involvement in his family’s corrupt influence-peddling operation.

According to Joe Biden, everything Hunter Biden did was “ethical;” no member of the Biden family took money from China or other foreign entities; he knew nothing about his son’s business dealings; and he never met with or spoke with any of the foreign nationals who had wired the Biden family money. 

Let’s now fast forward to January 2025. 

Today, Americans know Joe Biden lied about his involvement in his family’s business schemes and Congressional Democrats and Corporate Media acted to cover it up.

This lie was concocted to mislead the American people and shield President Biden and his family from accountability for their corruption.   

Despite the endless stonewalling from the Biden Administration, the House Oversight Committee obtained access to over 150 suspicious activity reports generated by the Biden family and their associates’ foreign high-dollar transactions, subpoenaed the Bidens’ and their associates’ bank records to follow their money trail, uncovered 20 shell companies they set up to hide shady foreign payments they received, and deposed key Biden family members and business associates.         

Our investigation has exposed the truth and defined Joe Biden’s legacy of corruption. In my upcoming book titled “All the President’s Money,” I take you behind the scenes of the most successful congressional investigation in US history.

This Oversight Committee investigation exposed Biden’s repeated lies, abuse of public office, and direct involvement in influence-peddling schemes that enriched the Biden family to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. Here’s how:

Lies: The president’s decision to repeatedly push lies was an effort to protect himself.

Joe Biden told the American people he never spoke to Hunter Biden about the family’s business dealings and that his family never took money from China.

Evidence obtained by our committee revealed that then-Vice President Biden spoke, dined, or had coffee with nearly all of Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates.

Devon Archer, a Biden family associate, confirmed during a transcribed interview that Joe Biden dined with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev, and Burisma’s corporate secretary Vadym Pozharsky at Café Milano in Washington, DC.

These foreign nationals or their affiliated entities funneled millions of dollars to Hunter Biden.

According to Devon Archer, Joe Biden also met with Jonathan Li, a Chinese national who was Hunter Biden’s associate.

Recently released photos by the National Archives show then-Vice President Joe Biden meeting with Jonathan Li and his son’s other Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the president lied.

The Committee also revealed how Joe Biden received thousands of dollars that originated from a CCP-linked company in his personal bank account. When confronted with the fact that his family did indeed receive money from China, President Biden doubled down on the lie and said it was not true that his family received money from China.

Corruption: Bank records don’t lie.

Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, and associates’ business schemes were subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee. The bank records we reviewed uncovered 20 shell companies formed by the Bidens – most of which were created when Joe Biden was Vice President.

The Bidens and their associates then raked in over $27 million through these shell companies from China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Romania.

At least 10 members of the Biden family benefited or participated in these schemes and the Bidens layered these payments through their bank accounts to hide the sources of the money.

Banks even flagged many of these Biden family transactions in more than 150 suspicious activity reports to the Treasury Department. Bank investigators noted that some transactions served “no current business purpose.” According to Biden family associate Devon Archer, Joe Biden was “the brand” the Bidens sold around the world.

Weeks after Joe Biden left the Vice Presidency, money from a CCP-linked entity began to make its way to the bank accounts of several Biden family members. Ask any Justice Department public corruption investigator about the importance of payments received after one leaves public office. It’s a hallmark of corruption.

Obstruction: The Biden Administration sought to obstruct this investigation every step of the way.

The White House refused to permit the National Archives to release all documents requested after they identified that Joe Biden emailed the Biden family and their businesses over 29,000 times.

IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler confirmed under oath that the Department of Justice also prohibited them from following evidence that would have led to Joe Biden during the federal criminal investigation of Hunter Biden.

This much is certain: Joe Biden knew of, benefitted from, and participated in his family’s influence-peddling schemes. This president will be remembered for tarnishing his positions of public trust by allowing his family to put his power, protection, and influence up for sale.

You can take that to the bank.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is the Representative of Kentucky’s 1^st Congressional District and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee.