Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) investigation into the "Biden crime family" yielded no tangible results, so the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee apparently figured that he might as well make some money off it.
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Shockingly, we didn’t hear much anymore about the president’s son Hunter and the “Biden crime family” after Old Man Joe announced that he would not run again.
It’s almost as though the entire point of all of those House Republican “investigations” was to weaponize the government to harm a presidential candidate.
But that would not be entirely correct… because this taxpayer-funded charade will also help Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, sell some books.
If you are unfamiliar with him, then you must not have watched Fox News from the time Republicans took control of the House to the day the president said he would step aside. Otherwise, you would recognize Comer as the guy who kept trotting out unsupported allegations regarding “the Biden crime family.”
In GOP speak, that means that Hunter Biden made some money as a “consultant.”
That’s pretty much the extent of it.
Oh, and “crime” means “no crime.”
To be fair, the Department of Justice, which was supposedly “weaponized” against Republicans (but let people like former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican whom Donald Trump wants to become attorney general, off the hook) did indict Hunter Biden for tax crimes and an unrelated gun charge.
But that had nothing to do with those GOP “investigations.”
In the end, it all just turned out to be hot air… Republicans didn’t even have the votes to impeach President Biden, who, according to Comer, was a criminal.
So, what was the point of this?
For the Kentucky Republican to hawk a book, apparently.
“Excited to announce my book about the Biden Influence Peddling Investigation, all the public corruption, a full accounting of the [money] they took in, the government obstruction, the media weaponization, and exactly how the Deep State coordinated with the media to disinform their audiences,” Comer announced (we won’t link to his statement or any of the pages where you can pre-order that book because we don’t want to support his grift). “It details every dirty trick.”
It’s funny, because much of what Comer says also applies to him, such as his coordination with Fox News, obstruction of probes into Trump’s self-dealing, and spreading of disinformation.
The most curious thing about the book is that it’s supposed to be 352 pages long, because the actual evidence Comer presented that would link “the Bidens,” especially the president, to actual crimes wouldn’t even fill a foreword.
What’s nice for the Kentucky Republican is that he can spend the next couple of years on book tour, because if his past behavior is any indication of how he will (not) do his job in the 119th Congress, then he won’t be doing any oversight or seeking any accountability.
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