According to Daily Beast, documents allege Bobulinski broke into family home and violently shook father who was suffering from brain cancer and died months later
WASHINGTON, DC – One week after a disastrous inaugural impeachment hearing from James Comer and House Republicans – in which their very own witnesses acknowledged President Biden has not done anything to warrant impeachment – the Daily Beast released a bombshell report on Comer’s next “star witness.”
Here are a few excerpts from the devastating story that will only further erode whatever semblance of credibility Comer’s “failure theater” investigation has remaining:
- “Conservatives have lauded Bobulinski’s credibility, even as the Justice Department seems to have thought little of his value as a witness.”
- “But if Bobulinski does testify at this month’s scheduled hearing—as inquiry ringmaster Rep. James Comer (R-KY) recently indicated—he might not exactly fit the heroic mold that Republicans have cast for him. In fact, Bobulinski is so problematic that his presence could torpedo the inquiry’s desperately needed comeback, generating Comer and his allies another cycle of blistering reproach from their conservative colleagues.”
- “It turns out Bobulinski has a history as a spiteful litigant, including suing his own cancer-stricken father, stepmother, and their esteemed local children’s charity for $900,000.”
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- “The dispute—in which Bobulinski claimed without any clear evidence that his parents and the charity had defrauded him of $25,000, and allegedly threatened to take their home (and, later, their car)—sparked months of family turmoil. He pursued the lawsuit for months after his father died, trying to secure a settlement with his stepmother, the charity, and his father’s estate.”
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- “While Tony was trying to chisel money back from his dying father, and then his dad’s estate and widow, over what Virginia court records indicate was a misunderstanding about a $25,000 donation, he was simultaneously pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money—including in emergency loans—into a failing offshore U.S.-Chinese branding venture operating in the Cayman Islands.”
- “At one point, Bobulinski forwarded that faltering business three $50,000 installments around the same time that he was trying to take his dead father’s van from his stepmother, according to court filings. That China venture soon imploded, and Bobulinski sued for his money back there too. That dispute, now in its seventh year, is ongoing, according to Cayman Islands court filings.”
- “The Virginia records are riven with emails, text messages, and other documents that paint Bobulinski as a volatile and self-serving manipulator with an explosive temper. At one point, Bobulinski stormed his parents’ home and forcibly shook his dad’s head, having learned in person only a few weeks earlier that his brain cancer had returned, according to his stepmother’s sworn affidavit in her application for a protective order.”
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- “The conflict appears to have dominated much of the final year his father and stepmother had together. Robert Bobulinski died two months after his son filed the complaint. His wife, Alicia Fernandez Bobulinski, blamed Tony.”
- “‘If Tony thinks that he can bully me still even after he was responsible for the death of my husband he is mistaken,” Alicia Bobulinski wrote in one email, sent to her son’s lawyer two months after the death. “He shot his own foot out of being mean spirited. Twenty days after we were in court my husband was in the hospital. Six days later my husband drew his last breath!!!’”
- “That email is in the court records because even after the death, Tony Bobulinski was still pursuing claims. At the time, Alicia Bobulinski was protesting her stepson’s new attempt to repossess a family vehicle.”
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- “Bobulinski…made his first public splash three years ago with unverified claims that Joe Biden was supposedly slated to keep a 10 percent cut from an ultimately failed business proposal with a Chinese oil company in 2017.”
- “While Bobulinski has offered competing explanations for why he chose to go public ahead of the election—including a ringside seat at the final presidential debate—his legal history suggests a person intensely motivated by grievance and grudges. He told The Wall Street Journal that he came forward after a Senate report revealed that Bobulinski appeared to have been cut out of $5 million in indirect payments from the Chinese energy company to Hunter Biden’s law firm.”
- “But WSJ—along with every other major news organization, including Fox News—has not found any evidence that Joe Biden had a role in his son’s overseas deals, let alone an improper or illegal one. So far, neither has the Republican-led impeachment inquiry.”
- “But that hasn’t stopped Bobulinski’s right-wing fan club. In a Fox & Friends interview last October, James Comer went to bat for his star witness’ integrity.”
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