Oversight Committee Memo Details More Foreign Payments Made to Hunter Biden

A new batch of bank records showing alleged examples of an influence peddling scheme involving President Joe Biden has again ignited debate between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill over whether the evidence is as damning as the president's political opponents claim.

The Biden family and its business associates received millions of dollars from oligarchs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine while Joe Biden was vice president, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee.

With the new payments included, the committee says it has now identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates. Those foreign sources include not only the three aforementioned countries, but also China and Romania as well.

White House Counsel’s Office spokesman Ian Sams issued a scathing memo in response to a memo from House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer and Republican staff on the committee that Sams says is “full of years-old ‘news,’ innuendo, and misdirection’ but no proof of any connection to President Joe Biden.

Comer’s memo contains financial statements, snippets from testimony by former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer, and even a photograph — but as Sams pointed out in his memo, Comer himself tacitly admits he has no evidence against the president: