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Monday, April 27, 2026

Raskin Slams House Hearing With IRS Whistleblowers As ‘Theater of the Absurd’ and An ‘Embarrassment’ - Mediaite

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tore into his Republican colleagues on Wednesday during a House Oversight Hearing in which the GOP called two IRS whistleblowers to testify about their roles in investigating Hunter Biden for tax-related crimes.

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon to the witnesses. I thought we might be here today on the matter that the chairman declared his top priority, the crusade to find evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden,” Raskin began, adding:

But now the majority’s long-promised star witness turns out to be a fugitive from American justice, an arms trafficker indicted on eight federal criminal felony counts, and an unregistered foreign agent for China who tried to trade Chinese arms for Iranian oil.

So, I guess he’s not going to be a witness for the majority any time soon. Well, after the failed SARs reports, bank records form 1023, we can conclude that this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn’t exist has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment.

Raskin pulled no punches in lambasting Rep. James Comer (R-KY) who has long promised to show evidence that President Joe Biden and his family were involved in an elaborate and highly lucrative scheme in which they sold access to America’s foreign adversaries.

One of the key components of those allegations was a long-touted whistleblower, later revealed as an Israeli-American named Gal Luft –...



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