Republicans ‘can’t track down’ Biden bribe informant

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Sunday that his team has been unable to reach an FBI informant who alleged corruption by President Biden and his family, after the bureau dodged a subpoena last week demanding a report detailing allegations he took bribes while vice president.

“Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant. We’re hopeful that the informant is still there,” Comer, 50, told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Comer also said a whistleblower communicating with the committee about the alleged bribery scheme “knows the informant” and is “credible.”

The FBI objected to handing over the FD-1023 informant report last week, informing the Oversight panel in a six-page letter that the information was “unverified” and may risk the confidentiality of agency sources.

“All we’re asking the FBI with respect to the form 1023 is, ‘What did you do to investigate this allegation?’ And they sent us back a very patronizing letter basically saying, ‘Just trust us and don’t worry about it,’” Comer said Sunday.

“This is a pattern of behavior by the FBI that would suggest there’s been a cover-up for many years with respect to the Biden influence-peddling.”

According to the subpoena, the report on the allegations was “created or modified in June 2020” — the same month that Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination — and alleges a “criminal scheme” involving “money for policy decisions.”

The allegations are the first to have directly implicated Biden rather than his scandal-plagued son, Hunter, who is currently facing congressional and federal investigations into his overseas business dealings in countries including China, Ukraine and Russia.

“Nine of the ten people that we’ve identified that have very good knowledge with respect to the Bidens, they’re one of three things: They’re either currently in court; they’re currently in jail; or they’re currently missing,” Comer told Bartiromo.

He said others “want to come forward” about the first family’s history of influence peddling, but they “fear for their lives.”

“Not only are the Biden lawyers and the Biden White House intimidating them — the media is trying to intimidate and discredit them,” according to Comer, who went on to blast committee Democrats for their actions in the probe.

“My biggest problem with the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee is they’re acting as a criminal defense attorney for the Biden family,” he said. “They’re obstructing every step of the way.”

Last month, an IRS whistleblower told Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Finance and Judiciary committees as well as the House Judiciary and Ways and Means committees that the first son is receiving “preferential treatment” in the federal investigation into alleged tax and gun crimes.