'He is peddling stories': Bob Woodward denies Republican's claim he said Biden was corrupt

Source: The Guardian

Sat 11 Jan 2025 13.00 EST
Last modified on Sat 11 Jan 2025 14.46 EST


The Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward forcefully denied making statements attributed to him by James Comer, the Republican chair of the powerful House oversight committee, in which Woodward supposedly said Joe Biden was financially corrupt. “The statements attributed to me in what is apparently his book are false,” Woodward said. “I made none of those statements he attributes to me. I repeat none, and not even in a paraphrased form.”

Woodward said Comer was “peddling stories, conclusions and allegations that just do not check out at all”. Comer lays out his claims in a book, All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich, which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.

The book is named in tribute to All the President’s Men, the seminal account of the Watergate scandal that Woodward wrote with Carl Bernstein, with whom he brought down a president, Richard Nixon. As oversight chair, Comer led Republican attempts to bring down Biden, by tying the president, his surviving son, Hunter Biden, and other family members to alleged financial corruption involving foreign interests.

Riddled with conspiracy theories and discredited witnesses, Comer’s investigation flopped – publicly so in one high-profile hearing when a key witness, the law professor Jonathan Turley, said evidence against the president fell short of the necessary threshold for impeachment and removal.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/11/bob-woodward-james-comer-biden-corruption