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GOP House Leaders: Focus on Harris’ Record, Not Race


By Sam Barron    |   Thursday, 25 July 2024 01:30 PM EDT

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House Republican leaders told lawmakers in a meeting Tuesday to stop bringing up Vice President Kamala Harris’ race and gender and to focus on her record, Politico reported. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. created a firestorm when he attacked Harris as a DEI candidate after President Joe Biden dropped out and Harris announced her candidacy, quickly becoming the presumptive Democrat nominee. Harris is of Black and South Asian descent.

“The incompetency level is at an all-time high in Washington,” Burchett wrote on social media. “The media propped up this president, lied to the American people for three years, and then dumped him for our DEI vice president.”

Burchett said he regretted the comment, even though he said, “it was the truth.”

Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., said Democrats were sticking with Harris because of her “ethnic background.”

Republicans are hoping to criticize Harris for her record on the border and for skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.

“This should not be about personalities. It should be about policy. And we have a record to compare,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. said to Politico after the meeting. “This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the competence of the person running for president, the relative strength of the two candidates and what ideas they have on how to solve America’s problems. And I think in that comparison, we’ll win in a landslide.”

An unnamed House Republican told Politico the DEI attacks need to stop. DEI initiatives aim to promote inclusion of women, minorities, and other marginalized groups.

“We have everything going our way and you just can’t handle that?” the lawmaker said. “We’ll give you a cheat sheet if you don’t know what else to talk about.”

Former GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, also weighed in, saying calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “DEI candidate” is “stupid.”

“This DEI, that seems like a petty … look, I disagree with DEI, but she is the vice president of the United States, she is the former U.S. Senator,” McCarthy said. “These congressmen that are saying it, they’re wrong in their own instance.”

Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., who chairs the Main Street Caucus, said Republicans should focus on Harris’ record as vice president rather than “make allegations,” Politico reported.

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Rep. Tim Burchett to Newsmax: ‘Classic Misdirection’ in Hunter Biden Case


By Fran Beyer    |   Monday, 03 July 2023 02:33 PM EDT

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/hunter-biden-justice-cover-up/2023/07/03/id/1125800/

House Oversight Committee member Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., on Monday charged that Hunter Biden’s lawyers engaged in “classic misdirection” in an effort to exonerate the president’s son of alleged shady business dealings. The alleged misconduct “goes really deep,” Burchett told Newsmax‘s “John Bachman Now.”

“There [are] two forms of justice in this country,” he said, “the Bidens and the rest of us.”

“The Justice Department in their infinite wisdom after this so-called five-year investigation gives [Hunter Biden] a slap on the wrist,” Burchett lamented. “In Tennessee, I’ve seen people do more time and more punishment for traffic violations … than what Hunter Biden got.”

Hunter Biden is set to appear before a judge July 26 to formally strike a plea agreement with prosecutors on tax and gun charges that will likely spare President Joe Biden’s son time behind bars. A plea agreement calls for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay taxes; he also must commit to court-imposed conditions that will spare him full prosecution on a felony gun charge.

“You’ve got over 20 intelligence professionals who said that the [Hunter Biden] laptop was a Russian hoax, and now we know it isn’t,” Burchett said. “And yet none of those so-called intelligence people are being called on the carpet for it or being denied their security clearances. So this goes really deep.”

According to Burchett, allegations from Hunter Biden’s lawyer that included assertions a whistleblower in the case was “disgruntled” is “classic misdirection. You know, ‘don’t look at this.'”

“That’s exactly what the attorney’s doing – what he’s paid to do,” Burchett said

But Americans “cannot disregard” the “over $10 million that flowed through Hunter Biden for no other reason than he was the vice president’s son and to gain access to the vice president who is now the president,” he added.

Hunter Biden “got his hand caught in the cookie jar — both hands and both feet,” Burchett asserted. “And this thing is going to go deep, and there’s more and more to it.”

Burchett lamented the “five-year investigation” being unable to find what the House Oversight Committee found.

“I’m no accountant by any stretch,” he said, “or an attorney, but I could read. I could follow the trail of the money, the laundering.”

Hunter Biden clients do not pay “tens of thousands or millions of dollars,” and “you don’t set up 21 bank accounts in LLCs that don’t do anything,” according to Burchett.

“You have to do something,” he said. “That’s why the mob used to invest in flower shops and things like that. Because you know it shows a cash flow.

“You can run it through some kind of business.”

But when it comes to the Bidens, he alleged, “They just stuck it in their pocket.”

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