White House refutes claims of Biden’s lack of cooperation with House probe

The White House on Friday issued a memo denying claims that President Joe Biden has been uncooperative with the ongoing investigation into his family’s business practices by House Republicans.

“Extreme House Republicans have spent the entire year investigating President Biden, and over and over again, they have failed to turn up any evidence of wrongdoing,” Ian Sams, special assistant to the president and White House oversight spokesperson, wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The Messenger.

“Faced with this level of ‘failure theater,’ these same extreme House Republicans now appear to be trying to invent claims of ‘obstruction’ and ‘stonewalling’ to rationalize their illegitimate so-called ‘impeachment inquiry,’ ” it adds.

Sams noted that the leaders of the investigation, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., has received “100% of what [he’s] requested,” and that a Washington Post report described the Biden administration as having “largely cooperated” with the GOP probes.

“This impeachment stunt is illegitimate, based on nothing, and shows that extreme House Republicans are willing to stop at nothing to smear the President despite failing to have the facts on their side,” wrote Sams.