influence peddling

House oversight committee chairman James Comer said Biden had "lied from start to finish about his family's corrupt influence peddling activities".

The GOP report says claims that “incriminating evidence about the Biden family’s influence peddling was found on Hunter Biden’s laptop ... have since been authenticated,” which is untrue; that only underscores that the GOP report was a partisan smear, and not something on which X should rest its legal case.

Republicans have long accused Hunter Biden, 54, of "influence peddling", although Congressional probes have yet to uncover any wrongdoing.

But recently, as members have been caught up in spying and influence peddling scandals, secret discussions about deporting immigrants and controversies over extreme statements, the AfD has faced a stiffening backlash, threatening the inroads it had made into the mainstream.

The allegations of influence peddling and corruption brought by a right-wing group against Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, had prompted Sánchez, one of Europe’s longest serving Socialist leaders, to consider stepping down.