James Comer doesn't care if his impeachment report is published with Biden out of race

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who has been leading House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, does not seem to particularly care about whether his final report on the inquiry ever gets published.

In an interview with Politico's Olivia Beavers, Comer indicated that the contents of the report may not matter so much now that President Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

"I feel like we’ve done our job," Comer told Beavers. "Our part of the report has been finished for a long time. They can publish it or not — I guess things change if [Biden is] not running again."

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) expressed a similar ambivalence about the impeachment inquiry with Biden out of the running and with Vice President Kamala Harris looking like his likely replacement.

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"I think that we can redirect our resources elsewhere into something that will be more fruitful," he said. "If we had anything to level against him, it already would have been exposed and we would have impeached him. That obviously hasn’t happened."

This is not the first time this week that Comer has expressed ambivalence about his own impeachment inquiry.

On Tuesday, for example, Comer acknowledged that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) only decided to launch the impeachment inquiry so that Republicans would have an easier time arguing in court that they needed to access bank records related to Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings, among other documents.

"The reason that [former House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy (R-CA) went to the impeachment inquiry phase was to try to have better standing in court -- it didn't have anything to do with impeachment," said Comer.

The impeachment inquiry into Biden was launched last year after House Republicans had spent months probing Hunter Biden's business dealings.

In the end, Republicans failed to uncover any direct links between the current president and his son's business activities, which left House Republicans at something of an investigatory dead end.