‘He is peddling stories’: Bob Woodward denies Republican’s claim he said Biden was corrupt
Washington Post reporter says he never made comments to James Comer published in the congressman’s new book
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.”
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