Comer and GOP 'delivered what Zelensky refused to' — and 'hoping you forget all about it'
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) recently told a GOP colleague, according to CNN, that he just wanted to be ‘done with' his 15-month-long impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
CNN reported last week that the Kentucky lawmaker has already begun to set his eyes on other goals — "ambitions to run for higher office one day, including potentially running for governor, according to lawmakers who have spoken to him."
In a Sunday, April 28 op-ed published by MSNBC, author and journalist Paul Weldman suggests Comer, his GOP colleagues, and Fox News media allies want the public to somehow forget about the probe, and just how unsuccessful it was — despite the fact their nominee for president is swimming in pools of the "corruption" they've been looking for.
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"You might recall that [former President Donald] Trump was first impeached for pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to open a sham investigation of Biden in order to discredit him ahead of the 2020 election," Weldman writes. "Comer and House Republicans delivered what Zelenskyy refused to."
The "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" author emphasizes, "Again and again, they’d find some new piece of information, rush to the cameras to proclaim that they had located the smoking gun, then watch as their claims collapsed when the mundane truth came out."
Weldman writes:
And yet, despite the best efforts of the House GOP’s worst people, the investigation did not find any corruption. That’s not to say Biden is a paragon of ethical purity; he’s done a few questionable things, like taking a position at the University of Pennsylvania after his vice presidency that involved a healthy salary and few responsibilities. That kind of sweetheart deal may be a little unseemly, but it’s neither illegal nor particularly uncommon for someone in his position.
Corruption, however, is something very different — and there’s never been any credible evidence that Biden is corrupt at all. The fruitless quest to find something criminal Biden did is particularly ironic given that Republicans are working so hard to return possibly the most corrupt president in history to the White House. Even now, they support him as he argues to the Supreme Court that presidents must be immune from prosecution for any crimes they might commit while in office. So if they want to find corruption, they know where they can look.
"Things have not worked out the way Comer and his colleagues wished," the Boundary Issues podcast host adds. "The only ones humiliated were the bush-league Javerts of the GOP."
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Weldman emphasizes, "And Republicans — and their media allies — are hoping you forget all about it."
Welman's full op-ed is available here.