'Theater of the absurd': Raskin compares GOP's Hunter Biden quest to 'Inspector Clouseau'

United States Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) on Wednesday ridiculed the House Oversight Committee's crusade against President Joe Biden's son Hunter following the Justice Department's multi-count indictment against Chairman James Comer's (R-Kentucky) supposed key informant.

Israeli-American think tank director Gal Luft was charged with eight felonies last Monday and faces a maximum sentence of one hundred years in prison for the combined offenses.

This development has damaged the credibility of the GOP's probe of alleged Biden family corruption, for which they have provided no evidence.

Raskin, the ranking Democratic member on Oversight, noted as much during Wednesday's hearing.

"The majority's long-promised star witness turns out to be a fugitive from American justice; an arms trafficker indicted on eight federal criminal felony counts, and an unregistered foreign agent for China who tried to trade Chinese arms for Iranian oil. So I guess he's not gonna be a witness for the majority anytime soon," Raskin said.

"Well after the failed SARS reports, bank records, form 10-23," Raskin quipped, "we can conclude that this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn't exist has turned our Committee into a theater of the absurd; an exercise in futility and embarrassment."