Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Tuesday that newly declassified documents confirm what Republicans have long alleged — that Joe Biden and his aides suppressed damaging intelligence in 2016 about his conduct in Ukraine and his family’s business ties there.
The documents released earlier Tuesday by CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly showed that the then-vice president’s office intervened to block the distribution of an intelligence memo from U.S. officials in Kyiv. The assessment described Ukrainian leaders’ disappointment with Biden’s lack of substantive engagement during a 2015 trip to Kyiv and their concern over his family’s financial connections to Burisma Holdings, the energy company that was paying Hunter Biden about $1 million a year.
“This was a huge cover-up,” Comer, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “The cover-up may be worse than the crime. Thank goodness for John Ratcliffe. Thank goodness that he’s finally put the truth out there so the American people can see.”
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