GOP holds FBI director in contempt for failing to turn over document on Biden bribery scheme

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer reported that he will initiate proceedings to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt for failing to comply with the release of a document alleging that Joe Biden was involved in a bribery scheme.

Kentucky Republican representative and the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, had advised that they intended to initiate a contempt of court proceeding if the director of the FBI did not properly cooperate with the committee's investigation, and this Monday, Comer decided to move forward and announce that it will begin the procedure this week.

Christopher Wray recently confirmed that the document allegedly involving Biden in a criminal scheme does exist and even offered that all the information could be viewed at FBI headquarters. However, Comer clarified that anything less than presenting these documents to the committee would be considered acting against the subpoena.

After a meeting that took place this Monday, the Republican representative stated that the FBI director acknowledged that the document is credible and that it comes from a reliable source, but that even so, the agency refused to release the record, so he indicated that contempt hearings will begin this Thursday in Congress.

"FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI-generated record has not been disproven and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation. The confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme is a trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years, and has been paid over six figures," Comer said, adding that Congress must now further investigate the case due to the "gravity and complexity of the allegations contained" in the record.