House Invites Biden to Say It Ain't So, Joe

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry. The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President’s past statements on his family’s well-documented influence peddling operation. President Biden is not expected to testify. However, the media should be interested in his answering the questions presented by the Committee. It is now clear that the President lied during his campaign and during his presidency on his lack of knowledge of his son’s business activities as well as his denial of any money gained from China. Yet, the White House responded, again, with mockery — a sense of impunity that only exists due to an enabling media. ...

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Even if most of the media refuses to demand answers, the public has a right to hear directly from the President on these specific questions. President Biden can still deny all of this countervailing evidence and “say it ain’t so,” but he should say something.

Ed Morrissey

Has any president agreed to a congressional deposition while still in office? I don't recall any precedent for this. Rather than mockery, the White House may have been better advised to give a serious statement on the separation of powers and the lack of precedent for such testimony. 

As far as giving the public answers to the questions in the letter, they'd have to know about the questions and the evidence to be curious about the answers.  And the Protection Racket Media has done a good job in preventing any of that from coming to their attention. 

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