Biden loans

Mark Vincent’s letter to the editor (Nov. 16, “Compromised decisions”) repeats unsubstantiated claims by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky). Comer’s allegations, provided without evidence to support them, come in the wake of real-world indictments against former President Trump. Those indictments do provide actual evidence, rather than innuendo.

The Comer allegations involve loans made by now President Biden to family members. Those loans were made in 2017 and 2018 when President Biden was neither the vice president nor the president and when he was not even a candidate for political office.

Comer claims that President Biden has refused to provide any records concerning the loans, even though his committee already has years’ worth of financial records from the president’s bank accounts, including records for the period in question. He is looking for a formal loan document, which is something that usually does not exist between family members.

The bank records in the possession of Comer’s committee do appear to support President Biden’s claim that he provided shortterm loans and was repaid for the loans, according to a CNN fact check report (Oct. 31). CNN received a small number of records in the committee’s hands but does not have access to all of them and therefore cannot make a firm conclusion.

Comer’s Oversight Committee does have those records. Despite this, neither Comer nor any Republican calling for President Biden’s impeachment have produced any evidence to support his impeachment, much less sufficient to support any potential criminal acts. Yet, these same Republicans are either silent about the heavy weight of evidence and indictments of former President Trump, or they remain steadfastly in support of him.

Stan Conger Bishop