White House pounces on Republican behind new Biden 'criminal scheme' bombshell trends now

The White House on Thursday took on Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley for saying he didn't know whether sensational allegations he helped air about the president allegedly engaging in a 'criminal scheme' with a foreign national was accurate.

Grassley, 89, came forward Wednesday along with House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer to bring forward claims from a whistleblower that they described as a bribery scheme from when Biden was serving as vice president.

'We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States,' Grassley said, as Comer subpoenaed the information.

However when describing the effort in an interview on the conservative Newsmax outlet, Grassley also allowed that he couldn't vouch for its accuracy without seeing the information.

The clip shows Grassley being interviewed by host Greta Van Susteren.

'The letter is electrifying because it talks about exchange of money for policy decisions. It's a very serious allegation against the then-Vice President,' the host tells Grassley, who phoned in for the interview. 

'It is a very serious allegation. I wish I could say that I knew it was true or untrue,' Grassley responded.

'Wow. Says it all,' wrote White House spokesman for oversight and investigations Ian Sams, appending his comment to the clip.

The pushback comes a day after Grassley, a senior Judiciary Committee member and a longtime advocate for whistleblower protections,  and Comer wrote AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray about what the whistleblower told them.

That letter also did not speak to the truth of the allegations, merely that the whistleblower was 'credible' and that the disclosures were 'legally protected.'