James Comer gets defensive when talking about an undisclosed land deal with a GOP donor
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) describes himself as a "simple farmer," but it was recently revealed he's using his own shell companies for business deals that he didn't report in his financial disclosure filings.
Associated Press reporter Brian Slodysko explained to NPR that Comer "owns about 16,000 acres of land, and all of those he painstakingly details on his congressional financial disclosures, which all members of Congress are required to submit. That is, except this six acres of land he co-owns with a donor and are held through a limited liability company called Farm Team Properties. That is the exception. And that property, because it is held by this company, he does not have to reveal what the assets held by it are on his financial disclosures."
Comer told Fox's Trey Gowdy on Sunday that he's going after Biden under the guise of "national security." Comer previously said he was no longer going on the "Fox & Friends" because Steve Doocy fact-checked him.
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"The people are behind us 100 percent, but the media continues to attack me," he whined. "They're here in my little town as we speak in Kentucky trying to dig up stuff, trying to say I have a shell company, my LLC has a lot of assets. A shell company by definition has no assets or no purpose. They continue to just make stuff up. Not only are they attacking me, Trey, they're making stuff up to try to discredit me as an investigator!"
Comer has been accusing Joe Biden of using an LLC or shell company to accept bribes from international companies and possibly even China. The allegations began with a claim that Biden somehow obtained $1.5 billion from China. Over the course of the House Oversight Committee's investigation under Comer's leadership, Republicans uncovered Biden helping his son buy a truck and his son giving him three checks to pay him back.
Comer along with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) begged House members for more power using an "impeachment inquiry" so that they could continue to search for something illegal that the family did. Typically impeachments have a crime, which is why some lawmakers explain that it's an "inquiry" and not a real impeachment.
See Comer in the video below or at the link here.
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