Ranking Member Raskin's Statement Following Republicans' Release of Month-Old FBI Interview Transcript

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"After intentionally withholding it from the American public for four weeks, Chairman Comer has finally released the transcript of the Committee's interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent who had been assigned to the Hunter Biden FBI investigation.

The Chairman's release, obviously timed to distract from news of an imminent potential fourth criminal indictment of Donald Trump, features the same selective and distorted parsing of information we have come to expect in service of the Republicans' fruitless investigation into President Biden, which has failed to turn up a single shred of evidence of wrongdoing.

The testimony of the Committee's star witnesses continues to boomerang against the Majority. Significantly, as today's transcript shows, the former FBI agent stated that he was aware of no political interference in the investigation. He acknowledged that disagreements between prosecutors and investigators are commonplace in this field. He explained that the FBI and prosecutors in this matter followed long-standing and commonsense policies regarding investigative steps.

Today's transcript once again confirms that David Weiss, a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney, hand-picked by then-Attorney General William Barr, has for years been investigating the President's son without any political interference from the Administration."

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