Jonathan Turley, Fox News contributor criticized White House spokesman Ian Sams for “attacking” and “taunting” House Republicans after inviting President Biden to testify in his own impeachment inquiry. The constitutional scholar addressed the Biden team’s “shocking” response during “The Faulkner Focus” Friday.
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JONATHAN TURLEY: While Republicans aren’t fazed by all this, what’s truly shocking is that Sams actually works in the White House counsel’s office. I don’t recall an administration that had a White House counsel’s office that engaged so directly in taunting and attacking Congressional legal investigations… This is an impeachment inquiry. This is the most important process possible that a President and Congress are engaged in, and yet a member of the General Counsel’s office mocks and derides this effort. The fact is that the president’s public statements to the public are completely contradicted. He lied that he hadn’t spoken to his associates. He lied that he was unaware of these business dealings. The key point of this letter is that in seven pages it reduces all of these contradictions to ten simple questions that the president can answer, not indulge in taunts, not engage in the type of attacks Sams, but answer the question for the American people. But the reason they do it is because they have the license to do it. The media is absolutely not interested in the answers to these ten questions. They basically bought into this illusion that the Biden team created, and they just went too far. They can’t ask any of these questions themselves, and that’s what Sams and the White House know is that there will be no pressure from the media to answer any of these questions.
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President Joe Biden/Ian Sams, Senior Advisor to the Office of White House Counsel (Getty Images)
THE White House dismissed the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Biden as “embarrassing” following a chaotic hearing earlier this month.
The Republican effort failed Wednesday when an eight-hour hearing failed to chart a clear path for investigating the case. The Biden family unclear relationship with foreign business interests.
“This hearing has been embarrassing for House Republicans. A complete waste of time. It’s time to move on from this sad charade. There are real issues that the American people want us to address,” the spokesperson said. speech from the White House, Ian Sams.
“This is a sad affair at the end of a deadlocked impeachment,” Sams said in a separate statement. “Stop it, buddy.”
From left, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R -Ky., speak to reporters after Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son. , defied a congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition before Republican investigators who have been looking into his business dealings, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Rep. James Comer, said after the hearing that the committee would need to hear the president himself.
The president is unlikely to accede to the committee’s desire to have him testify.
Comer indicated he would likely abandon plans to draft articles of impeachment against the president and instead submit criminal charges to the Justice Department.
Fox News’ Timothy HJ Nerozzi, Patrick Ward, Stepheny Price and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
