Rep. James Comer, who heads the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform and loves nothing higher than opening sham investigations into ostensible Democratic malfeasance, is out of the blue not all that into the entire “oversight” factor. Why not? As a result of now it includes President Donald Trump’s relationship together with his onetime buddy and alleged intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and who desires to analyze that, proper?
Comer went on CNN on Tuesday to say that he has no real interest in investigating Trump’s Epstein connection. And he has a number of causes, none of that are remotely legitimate excuses for not trying into the sitting president’s extraordinarily cozy relationship with a person notoriously accused of being a human trafficker and pedophile.
First, Comer can’t examine this as a result of all of it occurred too way back, and “I don’t think the Oversight Committee is going to invest in looking up something that was 22 years ago.” A lot for a promise to hunt justice for the victims, as apparently Comer’s curiosity has a date cutoff that he simply made up.
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Subsequent, since Trump claims he didn’t signal the lewd letter that seems in Epstein’s repulsive fiftieth birthday guide, that’s adequate for Comer.
“The president says he did not sign it. So I take the president [at] his word,” he mentioned.
Huh. Who knew that every one one needed to do to dodge a Comer investigation was simply to say you didn’t do it? Oh wait. Trump is seemingly the one individual Comer takes at his phrase. Everybody else focused by one in every of Comer’s unhinged, conspiracy-fueled “investigations” doesn’t obtain that particular remedy.
No quantity of explaining that using an autopen is completely fantastic and authorized, for instance, has stopped Comer’s harassment of former President Joe Biden and his employees, as a result of, per Comer, Biden’s use of an autopen is “the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.”
The issue for Comer is that he was exceedingly hyped to analyze the Epstein matter when he thought he might pin the entire thing on Democrats. In August, he subpoenaed a raft of individuals, demanding they seem earlier than his committee to reply questions on Epstein. He dropped subpoenas on Invoice and Hillary Clinton, in addition to former FBI Director James Comey and onetime particular counsel Robert Mueller, which appears much more like a listing of Democrats Trump and Comer hate than a logical selection for an Epstein investigation.
He additionally subpoenaed six previous attorneys basic, going all the best way again to the George W. Bush administration. Notably absent from this subpoenapalooza was Trump’s former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea deal in 2007, again when Acosta was the U.S. Lawyer for Florida.
Comer’s different drawback is that he subpoenaed the Epstein birthday guide that contained Trump’s lewd drawing, together with some genuinely Y I Okay E S issues from different big-name Epstein pals like Invoice Clinton and Alan Dershowitz. Comer yelled at Democrats for “cherry-picking” issues like Trump’s letter, which could have made for an excellent soundbite. However now Comer is caught claiming that the disgusting letters from different individuals are completely actual, however the Trump letter is a few type of forgery or hoax that was in some way undertaken 22 years in the past and certain right into a guide for Epstein.
Now, in his persevering with quest to keep away from asking Trump something about his cozy friendship with Epstein, Comer’s subsequent step is to speak to “potential associates” of Epstein, saying a few of Epstein’s victims gave him the names. In the meantime, he’s additionally nonetheless whining about how the Democrats are the actual drawback and solely he, James Comer, is prioritizing justice for the survivors.
Like all main Republicans in the intervening time, Comer goes to guard Trump in any respect prices—even when which means being probably the most credulous individual round.
