Rep. James Comer, who is leading the House Republicans' impeachment investigation of Joe Biden, has focused on the Biden family’s use of “shell companies.”

Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly all of his landholdings on congressional financial disclosure documents – roughly 1,600 acres in all.

But there are six acres that he bought in 2015 and co-owns with a longtime campaign contributor that he has treated differently, transferring his ownership to Farm Team Properties, a shell company he co-owns with his wife.

Interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press provide new insights into the financial deal, which risks undercutting the force of some of Comer’s central arguments in his impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. For months, the chairman of the House Oversight committee and his Republican colleagues have been pounding Biden for how his relatives traded on their famous name to secure business deals.

  • JunkMilesDavis@kbin.social
    17·
    11 months ago

    As true as it all may be, these guys seem to absolutely thrive on their own hypocrisy. I don’t think they would let the fact that they stink ten times as bad stop them from going after anyone else.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      Well yeah, in-groups and out-groups and all that. They relish on going after enemies for things that we all know they do themselves. They want to reinforce that the rules apply to them differently, and make sure all US common folk know our place.

      The modern Republican Party wants to turn this country into an Oligarchy, just like Russia, because their leaders think they will be the Oligarchy when it happens.