Rep. James R. Comer joined a panel titled “The Biden Crime Family,” where he asserted that Biden and his family’s business activities with China posed “a threat to national security.” GOP investigative chief leans in to role of Biden antagonist:
Rep. James Comer prays before eating lunch at Sisk Farms in Hopkinsville, Ky, on Feb. 15, 2023.
This month, Comer joined a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference titled “The Biden Crime Family,” where he asserted that Biden and his family’s business activities with China posed “a threat to national security.” In reporting this profile of Comer, The New York Times spent six hours interviewing him and spoke to more than 30 people close to him throughout his life — from his childhood in the rural town of Tompkinsville in Monroe County through his state political career and fast rise in Washington from a freshman in 2017 to now leading the Biden family investigation that Republicans hope will damage the president before the 2024 election.
Comer also dropped a separate inquiry into the business dealings of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law whose Affinity Partners investment firm received a $2 billion investment from the main Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund six months after the Trump presidency ended. Comer’s committee is populated by the most hard-line House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who wields extraordinary power because of her mass following and ironclad bond with the speaker.
Over decades, he has built a statewide political network that is rivaled only by McConnell. Unlike the minority leader, however, he has cultivated overwhelming popularity in Kentucky’s deep-red rural areas where Trump remains an idol. County Judge-Executive Mitchell Page, a friend and mentor of Comer’s, recalled local politicians visiting cemeteries to convert names on tombstones into voters. Three times already in Comer’s life, federal authorities have arrested people in Monroe County for vote buying. In Page’s most recent race, he got in a fistfight with an opponent, an altercation he said probably helped him win.
“I’ve had two servers in my lifetime,” Comer said when asked about the emails. “Hunter Biden’s is one, and you can — I’m not going to say who the other one was, but you can use your imagination.”His decision to leak the emails backfired. The former college girlfriend, Marilyn Thomas, was angry about being called a liar and sent a four-page letter to a reporter at The Louisville Courier-Journal who published a devastating story just weeks before primary day.
Comer has praised Trump frequently and expressed loyalty to him in public appearances, declaring himself “a Trump man,” in a Kentucky radio interview less than two weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But privately, it’s a little different. Comer says certifying Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6 was the toughest vote he has ever taken, and one he wrestled with until the last moment.
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