House Oversight Chair Kills Investigation Into How Trump Profited
House GOPers have killed off a congressional investigation into whether Trump profited improperly from the presidency, despite a court-supervised settlement agreement that demanded that Mazars USA, his former accounting firm, produce his financial records to Congress. Via the NYTimes:
Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, made clear he had abandoned any investigation into the former president’s financial dealings — professing ignorance about the inquiry Democrats opened when they controlled the House — and was instead focusing on whether President Biden and members of his family were involved in an influence-peddling scheme.
“I honestly didn’t even know who or what Mazars was,” said Mr. Comer, who was the senior Republican on the oversight panel during the last Congress, while Democrats waged a lengthy legal fight over obtaining documents from the firm.
“What exactly are they looking for?” Mr. Comer added in a brief statement to The New York Times on Monday. “They’ve been ‘investigating’ Trump for six years. I know exactly what I’m investigating: money the Bidens received from China.”
Aww. Isn't he adorable?