We’ll SUBPOENA the Biden family, top Republican says: Rep. James Comer warns more of

Rep. James Comer said Thursday his committee will subpoena members of the Biden family to testify about their business dealings – and he expects the matter to devolve into a messy legal dispute. 

‘This was always gonna end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going to subpoena the family,’ Comer, R-Ky., said on Fox Business Thursday morning. 

‘We know that this is going to end up in court when we subpoena the Bidens,’ he added. 

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has floated the idea of launching an impeachment inquiry to give greater weight to congressional subpoena power of the Biden investigations. 

‘This is a complicated case, and we’re being obstructed every step of the way by the Department of Justice, by the FBI, by the Secret Service, by the IRS, and by the Biden family attorneys,’ Comer said. 

‘This was always gonna end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going to subpoena the family,’ Comer, R-Ky., said on Fox Business Thursday morning

‘We know that this is going to end up in court when we subpoena the Bidens,’ he added

Earlier this week McCarthy demanded Biden hand over his bank records to prove he did not directly benefit financially from Hunter trading on his name. 

On Wednesday Biden insisted he ‘never talked business’ with Hunter or his associates after Devon Archer told the Oversight Committee Joe had been present on speakerphone or in-person while Hunter was meeting business partners around 20 times. 

His response came hours after Republicans released new bank statements detailing  payments from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan to the Biden family and associates. 

Archer did not claim to have ever heard Joe Biden discussing business but said Hunter would use his father as a flex – and hearing the voice of the vice president on speed dial was enough to sell the ‘brand’ to foreign executives. 

‘I can definitively say at particular dinners or meetings, he knew there were business associates,’ Archer told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson last week in an interview following his testimony. 

‘I don’t know if it was an orchestrated call-in or not. It certainly was powerful, though, because, you know, if you’re sitting with a foreign businessperson and you hear the vice president’s voice, that’s prize enough,’ Archer went on. 

‘Sometimes it was the call was coming in and the speaker would go on,’ Archer said, detailing the conversations. ‘You understand D.C. right? So the power to have that access in that conversation – it’s not in a scheduled conference call and that’s a part of your family. That’s like the pinnacle of power in D.C.’

He had told the committee of the conversations: ‘If his dad calls him at dinner and he picks up the phone, then there’s a conversation. And the, you know, the conversation is generally about the weather and, you know, what it’s like in Norway or Paris or wherever he may be.’

Comer claims to have found records detailing over $20 million in payments to the Biden family and their partners from foreign business leaders around the time Joe was vice president. 

Weeks ago Hunter Biden’s plea deal for tax and gun crimes blew up when a judge informed him he would not be shielded from future charges, specifically mentionin a violation of FARA, or failing to register as a foreign agent.