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‘This Deserves To Be Investigated’: Nancy Mace Rips FBI For ‘Stonewalling’ Congress To ‘Protect The Biden Family’

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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina blasted the FBI Thursday for “stonewalling” a Congressional subpoena in order to “protect the Biden family.”

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa wrote to the FBI on May 3 to demand that the agency produce a document that allegedly details a bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden. Wray reportedly offered to allow Comer and Grassley review the documents in a secure location in a Wednesday phone call with Comer, but still refused to turn over the document.

“It doesn’t fulfill the subpoena,” Mace told “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade about the reported offer by Wray. “I mean, Jamie Comer, Congressman Comer, chairman of Oversight, asked for those documents to be provided to the Oversight Committee, and that’s not what he is getting from Christopher Wray, that’s not what he is getting from the FBI.”

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Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said during a Tuesday appearance on “Fox and Friends” that a contempt of Congress charge could be an option if FBI Director Christopher Wray continued to refuse to turn over a subpoenaed document.

“First he won’t even admit he has the documents, then he admits they have it, then he says no one can see it, then he says you guys can see it but I’m going to redact it and James Comer said no, it’s not up to you to do this,” Kilmeade said. “Do we have to go through the court process? Why would a Republican appointed FBI director be so into going into the four corners offense?”

Former FBI Director James Comey defended Wray’s resistance to complying with the congressional subpoenas during a Wednesday CNN appearance.

“Obviously he’s protecting the president and the president’s family and there is more than one document, so I mean this is going to happen over and over the FBI complies and quits hiding behind their agency to protect the Biden family,” Mace said. “The American people deserve to have answers, this deserves to be investigated to the fullest extent of the law.”

“We will follow the facts. If it ends up we have to refer charges to the DoJ, then that’s what will happen,” Mace continued. “We can’t do an investigation with the FBI stonewalling the committee doing the investigation.”