On Thursday, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R‑KY) sent a formal invite to President Joe Biden to testify as part of a corruption-focused impeachment inquiry on alleged influence peddling.
Comer said in a letter to Biden his panel is proposing April 16 for a hearing to occur and noted that it is “open to accommodating” the president’s schedule. The chairman also posed a series of questions, asking Biden to respond in writing about whether he met or otherwise interacted with specific foreign business executives, as well as details on the context of the contacts.
House investigators accounted for $24 million that “flowed” toward Biden, his family, and their business associates from other countries such as China and Ukraine, but the committee has “identified no legitimate services to merit such lucrative payments,” C …