'Like A 007 Movie': House Democrat Tears Apart GOP For Working With A 'Villain'
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) burned Republicans on the House Oversight Committee on Thursday for working with “villain” Gal Luft, a man who federal prosecutors accused of being involved in “multiple international criminal schemes.”
Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has touted Luft ― who was initially unnamed ― as a whistleblower in a probe into the Biden family, particularly his son Hunter.
Federal prosecutors allege that Luft acted as an unregistered foreign agent for the Chinese government. An eight-count indictment against the American-Israeli dual citizen was unsealed earlier this week.
Luft has said he is being targeted for whistleblowing. He fled the country after he was released on bail and is currently a fugitive, according to prosecutors.
After Republicans at a Thursday hearing slammed the Defense Department’s inability to pass an audit, Moskowitz said the House Oversight Committee is in need of one.
“Can you imagine if someone audited this committee? Oh wait, I have that audit of this committee ― actually, it’s in form of an indictment,” he said. “That’s the audit of this committee. It’s an indictment by the Department of Justice because this committee is focusing on working with foreign agents, right?”
“You want to talk about national security?” Moskowitz continued. “It’s why you guys are here. It’s about national security but the main committee is working with an indicted Chinese agent who does business with the Iranian regime and is an illegal arms dealer to Libya.”
He added: “All of this in order to own Hunter Biden. That’s how far they’ve stooped. It reads like a ’007′ movie, this indictment, except they’re working with the villain.”
Moskowitz: The American people need to know whether the indicted foreign agent, the illegal arms salesman… that’s who they’re working with, we need to know if they have jeopardized homeland security in their search to help Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/9jYeft9yS4
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Moskowitz’s remarks follow a letter from Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) to Comer in which they expressed concern that the committee “has been manipulated by an apparent con man.”
Moskowitz announced on Wednesday that he sent letters to chairs of three congressional committees to investigate the House Oversight Committee.
“It’s mind-boggling that the Chairman still wants to get testimony from somebody with such little credibility, all so the GOP can continue peddling deranged theories to influence the 2024 election,” Moskowitz said of Comer in a statement.
