James Comer falsely says he never claimed Trump’s poll numbers were boosted by Biden probe: report

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he never linked his work as chairman of the House Oversight Committee investigating the Biden family to former President Donald Trump’s rising poll numbers, a day after he said otherwise, The Daily Beast reports.

Huffington Post reports that Comer during an appearance on “Fox & Friends First” Monday was asked by host Ashley Strohmier whether his committee’s probe has “moved this needle with the media?” and he agreed emphatically.

“Absolutely. There’s no question,” Comer replied.

“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.”

Comer’s statement was likened to Kevin McCarthy’s 2015 remark during the Benghazi probe suggesting the investigation was politically damaging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a remark that at the time doomed McCarthy’s speakership aspirations.

And according to The Beast’s reporting, it prompted “Comer to attempt some clean-up on Tuesday amid the growing criticism over his own remarks.”

Comer on Tuesday during an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line” appeared to contradict his previous account.

“Look, when I was referencing poll numbers, it had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Comer said.

“It had to do with the fact that the American people overwhelmingly believe that public corruption is a problem, and they’re concerned about how Joe Biden’s family got this money from foreign nationals, that’s what I was referencing in the polling, the polling shows the American people are keeping up with our investigation, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.”

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