Remember when Joe Biden claimed — for years — that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s businesses, let alone participated in them? Good times, good times. The more that House investigators drill into Biden’s communications, the more evidence they appear to find that he’s been a lying dog-faced pony soldier all along.

Now James Comer appears to have found evidence not just of back-channel participation by then-VP Biden through his secret e-mails, but of direct and official participation. The House Oversight chair has demanded specific communications from Biden’s time in the Obama administration, including one that shows a direct intervention by the then-VP into the affairs of Hunter and Burisma, and just days before another extraordinary intervention:

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Joe Biden’s VP staff colluded with Hunter’s business partner on Burisma corruption media response.@RepJamesComer is calling on the National Archives to provide complete and unredacted documents related to the Office of the Vice President colluding with the Biden… pic.twitter.com/WtIOR9ITNW

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) September 6, 2023

Among the requested documents is a December 4, 2015, email in which longtime Biden family business associate Eric Schwerin sent quotes to Biden’s then-communications director Kate Bedingfield that he said the White House should use in response to media outreach regarding Hunter Biden’s role on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Schwerin sent the email at 10:45 a.m. that day. Bedingfield responded hours later at 2:30 p.m. saying, “VP signed off on this.”

“The timing of this email traffic is concerning to the Committee,” Comer writes the letter, obtained by National Review. “According to Devon Archer (another longtime Biden family business associate), after a Burisma board of directors meeting in Dubai—on the evening of December 4, 2015 (midday in Washington, D.C.)—Hunter Biden ‘called D.C.’ to discuss pressure that Burisma asked him to relieve.”

Ahem. Bear in mind what this reveals — a foreign business interest supplying spin to an administration for the business’ benefit. Why would a sitting Vice President of the United States need to “sign off” on the quotes supplied to them by representatives of a foreign business interest? In fact, why did this foreign business interest even think they could have that kind of access — unless that access had already been well-established?

The evidence clearly shows, however, that they did have this access, and that they knew they could count on it. Biden himself was receptive to the Burisma input, according to Bedingfield’s note, despite Biden’s years-long claims that he had no contact with any of Hunter’s business interests. It also appears that Biden’s team, including long-time staffer Bedingfield, didn’t seem unduly disturbed by Biden’s connection to and assistance with Burisma’s PR efforts. That suggests that it was nothing new as early as 2015.

This destroys Biden’s myth of the “absolute wall” between Hunter’s business interests and Joe Biden’s duties in office, Comer declared in a statement this morning:

“Joe Biden never built an ‘absolute wall’ between his family’s business dealings and his official government work – his office doors were wide open to Hunter Biden’s associates. There is evidence of collusion in the efforts to spin media stories about Burisma’s corruption while Vice President Biden was publicly pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine. Suspiciously, Hunter Biden’s associate had a media statement on Burisma approved by Vice President Biden himself the same day Hunter Biden ‘called D.C.’ for help with the government pressure facing Burisma. Americans demand accountability for this abuse of government office for the benefit of the Biden family. The Oversight Committee will continue to pursue all evidence to provide much needed transparency to the American people,” said Chairman Comer.

On the contrary, this e-mail and others like it make Joe Biden’s VP office look more like a war room for Hunter and Burisma. This makes Biden’s efforts to get Viktor Shokin removed look even more suspicious, as Biden’s visit to Ukraine came just four days after Biden “signed off” on Burisma’s talking points on corruption allegations. Biden signed off on the talking points on December 4, 2015; he went to Kyiv on December 8 and, as he later bragged, got Shokin fired on his own personal intervention. And that happened just days after Biden approved the spin from Hunter’s business associate on Burisma, who was a target of Shokin’s anti-corruption crusade.

Coincidence? Come on, man. This stinks to high heaven of personal corruption as well as flagrant abuses of office. It’s so bad that it raises questions about who else knew that this was business as usual in the VP’s office. Perhaps it’s time to start subpoenaing records from Barack Obama’s office staff and foreign policy advisors to get some answers to that question … as a start.