Comer: ‘Biden Lied’ about Family Getting Money from China, Media Covering for ‘Corruption’
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated that new information from the Oversight Committee proves that claims by President Joe Biden that his family didn’t get money from China are a lie and stated that the media ignoring the latest news “is further proof that this media is covering for Joe Biden. They are covering for public corruption at the highest levels in a manner we’ve never seen in the history of our country.”
Comer said, “Joe Biden said numerous times, Sean, that his family never received a penny from China. We proved today that Joe Biden lied during his presidential campaign in 2020, and he continues to lie today.” And “[W]hen you got to the $1 million from Romania, it was filtered and laundered — however you want to describe it — down to the Bidens in 17 payments. 16 of the 17 payments from the corrupt person in Romania, the foreign national in Romania, happened while Joe Biden was Vice President and visiting Romania and in charge of things like foreign aid for the Obama administration. So, the level of public corruption that we talked about today was breathtaking. And the fact that, as you mentioned, Sean, the mainstream media, for the most part, didn’t cover it at all and instead covered the George Santos stuff is further proof that this media is covering for Joe Biden. They are covering for public corruption at the highest levels in a manner we’ve never seen in the history of our country.”
He added, “If the President’s son was providing a service to Romania or to China or to any of these other countries that we’re going to disclose at a later time, why didn’t the country just send the payment directly to Hunter Biden?”
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Disney Reneges on Meeting with Uyghur Genocide Victims, Lawmakers Say
'It’s time for Disney to own up to its mistakes and make amends'
Disney executives reneged on an offer to meet with Uyghur genocide victims, which lawmakers say raises concerns that the company is kowtowing to the Chinese government.
A group of Uyghurs, their families, and advocates reached out to Disney to discuss the company’s friendly relationship with Beijing and its decision to shoot a film in the province where the CCP is oppressing the country’s Muslim minority. But while Disney initially agreed to meet, the company "suddenly cut off the correspondence" and have since "evaded meeting with victims of the Uyghur genocide," according to a Tuesday letter from the lawmakers to Disney CEO Robert Iger, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The letter comes as Congress steps up investigations into American companies’ willingness to cooperate with China. The House Select Committee on China is investigating Nike and Adidas for their reliance on Chinese slave labor, the Free Beacon reported. The letter is also the latest political dustup for Disney, which has been locked in an ongoing battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.).
Human rights groups attempted to schedule the aborted meeting on behalf of the Uyghur victims in order to discuss Disney’s live-action Mulan. The film was shot in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, ground-zero for the CCP’s mass human rights crimes against the Muslim ethnic minority.
The film's credits also "thanked several Chinese government agencies," including the Public Security Bureau of Turpan, which was sanctioned by the Trump administration for human rights crimes. Disney also thanked the Publicity Department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Committee, "the CCP propaganda arm charged with covering up the abuses," according to the letter, whose authors include Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and House Select Committee on China chairman Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.).
While filming Mulan, "Disney cooperated with Chinese security and propaganda authorities active in the [Xinjiang region], including ones complicit in Beijing’s human rights atrocities," according to the lawmakers, who say "it strains credulity that Disney was unaware of the genocide occurring around its film sets."
At the time, Iger served as Disney’s executive chairman under former CEO Bob Chapek. Now that Iger is back in control of the company, Banks and his colleagues are pressing Iger and other Disney executives to "make amends" with the Uyghur dissident community by publicly meeting with genocide victims, alongside members of Congress.
"Disney publicly praised Chinese Communist Party agencies committing genocide and then privately scorned their victims," Banks told the Free Beacon. "It’s time for Disney to own up to its mistakes and make amends."
Disney has faced criticism for its friendly relations with the Chinese government and compliance with the country’s strict media censorship. Last month, Iger was on Capitol Hill to answer questions about his company’s relationship with China and censorship issues. The company’s relationship with China has also attracted the attention of shareholders, who reportedly asked the company earlier this year to come clean about its business dealings with the CCP.
Disney did not respond to a request for comment.
Ernst: Wuhan-Affiliated Group Broke Federal Law Moments After Biden Admin Resumed Federal Funding
The group at the center of the COVID-19 lab leak theory allegedly violated federal law as it celebrated the Biden administration’s decision to resume funding its risky research into Chinese bat coronaviruses.
A $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable EcoHealth Alliance to resume the research that a growing number of intelligence agencies and virologists believe contributed to pandemic outbreak. EcoHealth Alliance gleefully announced the grant in a Monday press release but failed to disclose the financial terms of the project. That could violate federal transparency law, according to complaints filed Thursday by Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) and the White Coat Waste Project.
Ernst called on the National Institutes of Health to end taxpayer funding of EcoHealth’s "dangerous experiments before the public’s health is put at risk, possibly for a second time."
"Despite these scathing findings, EcoHealth continues to violate longstanding federal law mandating that all projects supported with taxpayer dollars publicly disclose the costs and to conduct dangerous experiments on coronaviruses collected from bats with the financial backing of the NIH," Ernst said in a Thursday letter to National Institutes of Health acting director Lawrence Tabak, noting the group’s "well-documented and persistent refusal to comply with federal laws."
EcoHealth Alliance is no stranger to controversy. In January, government investigators issued a scathing report finding that EcoHealth waited two years to report that it created boosted bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab that were far more infectious than their natural counterparts. Former president Donald Trump suspended its Chinese coronavirus research in April 2020 amid growing concerns about the gain-of-function experiments it conducted alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the pandemic.
EcoHealth Alliance violated the Stevens Amendment in at least three statements since August 2022 in discussing its taxpayer-funded work, the White Coat Waste Project detailed in a complaint Thursday to Health and Human Services inspector general Christi Grimm.
"All of these [EcoHealth Alliance] releases failed to report any of the legally mandated spending details required by the Stevens Amendment," the White Coat Waste Project said in its complaint.
The Stevens Amendment requires groups discussing taxpayer-funded projects from the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services to disclose the percentage of total program costs funded by taxpayer dollars and the dollar amount of federal funds going toward the project.
EcoHealth Alliance’s renewed grant comes with a bevy of new restrictions. Most notably, the National Institutes of Health has forbidden the group from conducting any research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The group is also prohibited from collecting any new viral samples from Chinese bats.
Still, Republican lawmakers slammed the Biden administration on Monday for renewing EcoHealth Alliance’s grant.
"It's absolutely reckless that the NIH has renewed a grant for EcoHealth Alliance given their negligence and the breach of their contract with the NIH on the coronavirus research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Rep. Morgan Griffith (R., Va.) a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told the Daily Mail.
At the onset of the pandemic, Democrats and the media dismissed the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a baseless conspiracy. But proponents have been vindicated in the years since, as circumstantial evidence has accumulated suggesting the virus leaked from the Chinese lab.
The Energy Department admitted in February that COVID-19 likely emerged in China from a lab leak. The FBI also said that same month that the lab leak theory was "most likely." And in March, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law to declassify intelligence on the origins of the pandemic.
EcoHealth Alliance did not immediately return a request for comment.
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