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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer invoked the late son of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, lamenting that Beau Biden was never prosecuted over an investigation into illegal contributions involving his father’s 2008 presidential campaign.

“This U.S. attorney had had an opportunity to go after the Bidens years ago,” the Kentucky lawmaker huffed. “In fact, it was Beau Biden, the president’s other son, that was involved in some campaign donations from a person that got indicted, as well as Joe Biden was involved in some of these campaign donations when he was a senator, and then when he ran for president against Obama.”

Comer continued: “But nothing ever happened. So I don’t know much about this U.S. attorney other than he’s had an opportunity to investigate the Bidens before and he chose not to. We all know that he’s just been silent for a long time.”

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A new report from the Washington Post claims that some agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to shut down a probe into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified information because they were "afraid" of being political targets.

According to the Post's reporting, these agents argued for shutting down the probe after Trump's lawyers claimed last June to have conducted a "diligent" search of Mar-a-Lago for additional classified documents requested by the government.

However, prosecutors at the United States Department of Justice countered that they had probable cause to believe that the Trump lawyers' claims about having turned over all documents after a diligent search were wrong and they pushed the bureau to execute a search warrant to retrieve the remaining documents.

Despite this, the FBI was still reluctant to take the plunge.

"They also heard from top FBI officials that some agents were simply afraid: They worried taking aggressive steps investigating Trump could blemish or even end their careers," reports the Post.

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Pooky posted:

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holtemon posted:

*failed insurrection, sorry

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Questions continue to swirl about scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) as the identity of his new campaign treasurer is shrouded in mystery, reported CNN on Thursday.

"Andrew Olson, listed as treasurer of Santos’ federal political committees on February 21, does not serve as treasurer for any federal committees beyond those associated with the Republican congressman who represents parts of Nassau County, New York," reported Fredreka Schouten, Gregory Krieg, and Kara Scannell. "And election officials in New York say no one with that name is registered as treasurer of any political committee in the state. The address associated with Olson and Santos’ campaign is that of a mixed-use apartment and commercial building in Elmhurst, New York, where the congressman’s sister resided until earlier this year."

Mike Deery, the head of the Nassau County Republican Party, told CNN, “Do not know him. Have not heard of him.” And an assistant for Nancy Marks, the former treasurer of the Santos campaign, said they do know know who Olson is either.

This comes after a bizarre episode in which Santos announced the hiring of a new treasurer to replace Marks, only for that treasurer to clarify he had not accepted the job.

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