Raskin: GOP’s FBI contempt of Congress hearings 'a huge distraction' from Trump’s troubles

United States Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) ridiculed House Oversight Chairman James Comer's (R-Kentucky) Monday revelation that contempt of Congress hearings will begin on Thursday into the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Comer held a press conference at which he claimed that the FBI refused to hand over supposed evidence incriminating President Joe Biden's son Hunter in various schemes and crimes that Republicans have accused him of committing.

Raskin responded by highlighting that the timing of Comer's announcement conveniently coincided with former President Donald Trump's defense attorneys asking Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith not to indict their client.

"I noticed that the former president's lawyers are today in Washington meeting at the Department of Justice about, um, you know, the very serious allegations that the former president took government documents — including classified and top secret documents — and didn't, and deliberately didn't return them," Raskin said.

"In the meantime, we're involved in what I see as a huge distraction," the congressman added, "which is trying to get contempt charges brought for the first time in American history against the director of the FBI. So I, I leave it to your judgment, whether that's political or not."