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David Smith in Washington

Biden impeachment effort ‘eight months of abject failure’, watchdog report says

United States Representative James Comer (Republican of Kentucky), Chair, US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, presides over a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing with IRS Whistleblowers About the Biden Criminal Investigation, in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC,. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing with IRS Whistleblowers About the Biden Criminal Investigation, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - 19 Jul 2023
James Comer has raised a substantial amount of money for his campaign coffers, yet offered no hard evidence of corruption on Joe Biden’s part. Photograph: Shutterstock

The man leading the Republican charge for an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden has spent “eight months of abject failure” in trying to prove the US president guilty of wrongdoing, a watchdog report says.

James Comer, the ambitious chairman of the House of Representatives’ oversight committee, has repeatedly overhyped allegations of bribery and corruption against Biden without once producing hard evidence, according to the Congressional Integrity Project.

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