As far as I'm concerned, public's business ought to be public." "It's up to my job to make sure the FBI is doing their job and that's what this is all about. There's accusations in it, but that's not for me to make a judgment about whether these accusations are accurate or not," he added. "There's no reason for an unclassified document to be held in secret," he added.įox News host Bill Hemmer then asked Grassley how damning the document is to the president, to which the senator responded that he doesn't know, even though he read it. "They've got to produce this document," Grassley said of the FBI, adding that not doing so and not being "forthcoming" with the public would be another example of the agency's "shortcomings and political bias." When asked about the contents of the document, Grassley said Thursday that he will not "characterize" it but confirmed that Republicans will release it to the public after receiving it from the FBI.
Or evidence of decisions influenced by anything other than U.S. In another tweet at the time, Sams wrote: "For going on 5 years now, Republicans in Congress have been lobbing unfounded politically-motivated attacks against without offering evidence for their claims.
The White House denied the accusations against Biden, with Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, tweeting in May: "Innuendo and insinuation masquerading as investigation."
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Comer is basing his allegation on information he received from an anonymous whistleblower. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, recently attempted to get records from the FBI that he believes could show whether Biden allegedly received bribes from a foreign national in exchange for influencing policy decisions when he served as vice president during the Obama administration. Senator Chuck Grassley criticized the FBI for not releasing a document that Republicans said contains information that allegedly implicates President Joe Biden in an influence-peddling scheme and said it doesn't matter whether or not those accusations are "accurate."
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