The Hill reports:
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky,) the newly appointed House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman on Sunday sidestepped multiple questions about why the panel won’t investigate former President Trump over his handling of classified documents, despite plans to probe President Biden for similar offenses.
“With respect to investigating President Trump, there have been so many investigations of President Trump. I don’t feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time investigating President Trump because the Democrats have done that for the past six years,” Comer said on CNN’s “State of the Union” with anchor Jake Tapper.
Mediaite reports:
As Tapper pointed out some of the biggest differences between Trump and Biden’s respective scandals, the CNN anchor aired an interview Comer gave back in November in which he said that investigating the Mar-a-Lago documents case “will not be a priority” for him.
“Do you only care about classified documents being mishandled when Democrats do the mishandling?” The interview continued with Tapper and Comer clashing over the circumstances of Trump’s case, and whether Comer will ask for the Mar-a-Lago visitor’s logs if he’s asking who visited Biden’s house.
TAPPER: Why ask for the visitor logs for Biden but not for Mar-a-Lago?
COMER: Well, we are doing the Biden family influence peddling investigation pic.twitter.com/kw7pLwUdF8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2023
Comer: “I think the influence peddling with respect to the Trump administration will be a part of our overall investigation… but w/ respect to investigating President Trump, there have been so many investigations of Trump, I don’t feel like we have to spend a whole lot of time” pic.twitter.com/yRMxNcuzpm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2023