Jamie Comer and Jim Jordan are having hissy fits that the DOJ finally took a stand against their bogus impeachment “inquiry” into President Biden and his son Hunter. Comer and Jordan think there is some gold to be had in the audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Biden. And believe it or not, the DOJ literally called their request just politically motivated and told them, “You ain’t getting the audio tapes.”
Don’t they already have Hur’s hit piece on President Joe “dotard” Biden and the real transcript of the interview? YES!, and it’s why the DOJ said the following:
In a letter to Jordan and Comer obtained by The New Republic, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte effectively thwarted Republicans’ meritless effort to impeach Biden. “Neither branch [of Congress] has any constitutionally-based authority to seek conflict for conflict’s sake,” Uriarte wrote, identifying the politically motivated nature of the disastrous impeachment inquiry, which yielded more indictments of the GOP’s own star witnesses than actual evidence of the president’s wrongdoing.
“The Department is concerned that the Committees’ particular focus on continuing to demand information that is cumulative of information we already gave you—what the President and Mr. Hur’s team said in the interview—indicates that the Committees’ interests may not be in receiving information in service of legitimate oversight or investigatory functions, but to serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files,” continued Uriarte.
Emphasis is mine.
Both Comer and Jordan are threatening to hold Merrick Garland in contempt of congress. Maybe Garland has figured out that House Republicans are bad faith actors by now? Sure looks that way. Or maybe Garland just ate his Wheaties this morning?
I don’t know what Garland might be thinking, but this episode does prove one thing. Comer and Jordan are not going to give up on this joke of an inquiry. Everyone who has paid the least bit of attention to Gomer Comer Pyle’s impeachment inquiry knows that it is dead. They can smell the gases spewing from the corpse, but Comer and Jordan are hell bent on ignoring the smell of decay. This is going to go on until November, at least.