To the extent that anyone might’ve tried to argue that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was approaching his anti-Biden crusade in good faith, those days appear to be over. In fact, by some measures, this has been a career-defining week for the Kentucky Republican — but not in a good way.

The week began with an interview with Devon Archer, a former Hunter Biden business associate, who testified under oath to the GOP-led Oversight panel, and whom Republicans saw as a key witness in their ongoing investigations into President Joe Biden and his family. In the wake of the Q&A, Comer made a variety of provocative claims about the closed-door testimony.

Those claims weren’t true. We know this for certain because the Oversight Committee chose yesterday — shortly before Donald Trump’s arraignment overshadowed other political news — to release the official transcript of Archer’s testimony. It thoroughly discredited not only Comer’s claims this week, but also every Republican talking point related to the Democratic president.

A Washington Post analysis took note of what happened next.

The Justice Department did not, in reality, try to throw Archer in jail in the hopes of derailing his testimony.

Nevertheless, Comer’s written fundraising appeal went on to describe the witness’ sworn testimony as “the smoking gun evidence we needed to prove that Joe Biden was the head of the Biden Bribery Scheme.”

There is simply no defense for such brazen dishonesty. Perhaps a brief...

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