Tag Archives: James Comer

Mediaite reports: Congressman James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, released a statement bemoaning the “sweetheart deal” and saying “Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist.” This as Comer continues to push unproven allegations that Hunter and his father were engaged in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme while Joe Biden was vice president. “These …

The Washington Post reports: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) released a resolution Wednesday to hold FBI Director Christopher A. Wray in contempt of Congress for not fully complying with a subpoena. Comer said his panel would vote on the resolution Thursday. At issue is a document containing unverified allegations from a confidential informant about President Biden and his …

“There’s no question. You look at the polling, and right now Donald Trump is 7 points ahead of Joe Biden and trending upward, Joe Biden’s trending downward. And I believe that the media is looking around, scratching their head, and they’re realizing that the American people are keeping up with our investigation.” – House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, admitting …

Raw Story reports: During an interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Comer about evidence he had of Biden’s alleged corruption. “You have spoken with whistleblowers,” she noted. “You also spoke with an informant who gave you all of this information. Where is that informant today? Where are these whistleblowers?” “Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” Comer …

Mediaite reports: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) was pressed on whether he intends to investigate Donald Trump’s family amid his accusations against President Joe Biden’s family. While the investigation gravitates around the Biden family’s business dealings and the argument that Hunter profiteered off of his family name, the probe has yet to implicate the president in any alleged …

The Washington Post reports: House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has teased to television audiences over the past month that four different people have appeared before committee investigators to provide information regarding his inquiry into whether President Biden and members of his family were involved in an influence-peddling scheme. On Fox News in March, Comer said he had even met …

“I’ll tell you, one of the things that I don’t think it’s been picked up a lot that’s going to be a problem. And I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee. They were Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican. They want to know if there are …

The New York Times reports: Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, reflected on the pressure he often faced from constituents to investigate unhinged claims about President Biden and Democrats. “I say, ‘Let me see it,’ because I want to see where the source is,” Mr. Comer said. “They don’t know that it’s QAnon, but …

The New York Times reports: House Republicans have quietly halted a congressional investigation into whether Donald J. Trump profited improperly from the presidency, declining to enforce a court-supervised settlement agreement that demanded that Mazars USA, his former accounting firm, produce his financial records to Congress. Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability …

Congress Minutes reports: House Oversight Chair James Comer has begun subpoenaing banks for records as part of his investigation into Hunter Biden and the Biden family, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) disclosed in a letter to the Kentucky Republican. It’s the first known subpoena of a financial institution by Comer as he conducts a sweeping investigation into Hunter Biden, President Joe …

Congress Minutes reports: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told POLITICO on Tuesday night that their aides are working to set up a congressional delegation to visit individuals jailed on Jan. 6. Greene — a member of the Oversight Committee — would lead the trip, which would not be limited to panel members. …

The Hill reports: House Republicans are officially relaunching their investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic by calling for testimony and information from Anthony Fauci and other current and former Biden administration officials. Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), the chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, …

Raw Story reports: ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer (KY) if he would investigate Saudi funds provided to former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. “It’s clear that you’re going to be looking at Hunter Biden,” the host said. “I want to put up a front-page story from the Washington Post detailing Jared Kushner’s ties …

“I have concern that this is gonna be another example of the Biden administration’s weakness on the national scale. Now we have China clearly playing games with the United States. This balloon never should have been allowed to cross over the Pacific coast into the continental United States. My concern is that the federal government doesn’t know what’s in that …

The Hill reports: The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Accountability Committee has disbanded the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which focused on issues including voting rights, freedom of assembly and criminal justice reform policies. In a committee meeting on Tuesday, Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said this doesn’t mean topics related to these issues can’t be brought before the committee. …

Axios reports: House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Monday that he wants to work with the top Democrat on the committee to reform how classified documents are handled. Comer’s latest remarks add to the series of bipartisan concerns over the classification of documents and the increasing wish for reform after documents were found at the personal residences and offices …

Mediaite reports: Speaking with Rep. James Comer (R-KY) on Sunday Morning Futures, the Fox News anchor floated the notion that the president committed treason by keeping classified documents from his time as a Senator and Vice President at his Delaware residence and his Washington office. “Is this treason?” Bartiromo asked. Comer wasn’t quite willing to go that far, but also …

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. …

Reuters reports: George Santos, who lied about much of his resume and life story, will be removed from Congress if found to have broken campaign finance laws, fellow Republican and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Sunday. “He’s a bad guy,” Comer said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “It’s not up to me or any other …

ABC News reports: The chairman of the new Republican-led House Oversight Committee has issued a flurry of letters as part of the panel’s first formal steps toward a long-promised investigation targeting President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and social media companies that they allege sought to suppress negative stories about the president’s son that they claim could have impacted …