Republicans announced Friday that they had uncovered a “direct payment” to President Joe Biden — exactly the kind of evidence they’ve sought linking Biden to his family’s foreign business deals.

But the March 2018 payment came from Joe Biden’s brother James, not a Ukrainian oligarch or Chinese tycoon, and the check was marked as a “loan repayment.”

Still, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who obtained the records via subpoena, said the $200,000 check looks suspicious for the president.

“Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum of money to his brother,” Comer said in a video, “and what were the terms of such financial arrangement?”

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Yeah 200 thou is so much money he needs to prove it was actually loan repayment.

Now if it was 2 million dollars from the Saudis…. Well that’s totally different!

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Billion with a B.

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Only off by 1000x. A tiny mistake, really.

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What is the difference between 1 million and 1 billion?

About 1 billion.

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Are you undervalueing your assets again for tax purposes!?

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It’s understandable, there’s just so many zeros.

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Or 130 thousand of funnel money to pay for a … thing.

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