James Comer says Bob Woodward can 'kiss my rear end' over book claims

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) had some choice words for legendary Watergate journalist Bob Woodward in an escalation of the back-and-forth between two Washington insiders over bombshell claims in the lawmaker’s book.

“Listen, Bob Woodward can kiss my rear end,” Comer said during a Newsmax interview when asked to respond to Woodward flat-out denying claims the Kentucky congressman attributed to the journalist in his new book, “All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich.”

Comer on Tuesday continued to claim that Woodward told him during a private three-hour recorded dinner that President Joe Biden was financially corrupt.

“And the topic for three hours was about the Biden corruption,” Comer said. “What I said in the book is 100% accurate. Woodward said, ‘Well, it's a well-known fact and it's been well documented through many stories by many publications that the Bidens were always in trouble, always in financial trouble, always selling access to Joe.’”

Comer, who chairs the powerful House oversight committee, added that Woodward went on to tell him during their private conversation: “'As far as I knew that wasn't illegal,’ that's what Bob Woodward said. He was influence peddling. But influence peddling wasn't illegal.”

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The lawmaker revealed during his interview on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” that he believes what provoked Woodward to come out against the book was because he wrote that the journalist’s statements about Biden’s alleged corruption were seen as an admission “that he knew they were corrupt, but he didn’t care.”

“And so, he’s upset by that,” Comer said. “I don’t really care.” He concluded: “At the end of the day, everybody in America knows the Bidens were corrupt, and my book documents it.”

As of Tuesday evening, Comer’s book was listed as Amazon’s No. 1 selling political corruption and misconduct book, and the number 37 best-selling book overall.

Woodward famously penned the 1974 book “All the President’s Men” with fellow journalist Carl Bernstein focused on the Watergate Office Building break-in that brought down former President Richard Nixon.

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