'None of that is true': James Comer fact-checked over letter begging for cash

Going after the "Biden Crime Family" is costing House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) and his family dearly — so he's passing around a figurative collection plate in the form of an email to raise support.

“I ask you to take the time to read this email in its entirety,” writes Comer, who along with Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), have been spearheading an impeachment inquiry hinged on the theory that Biden laundered international bribes through his son Hunter's foreign business dealings.

“I spent a lot of time writing it and did my best to make every word count. ... If you don’t read it, nobody will.”

The Washington Post's columnist Philip Bump did read it, then knocked Comer for its "broad strokes" to claim "he’s fighting the good fight against nefarious foes and suffering damage that can only be treated with the soothing balm of cash."

Bump's focuses on Comer's platitudes to win over readers, with the congressman going so far as to say that he and his family are "being put through this," without explaining "what the 'this' is.”

Moreover, despite Comer's findings being sparse so far, he claims in the letter that he's nailed the Bidens.

“I’ve presented mountains of evidence confirming Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence-peddling scheme," his email reads. "And I just had a group of the Biden family’s business confidants publicly testify about the first family’s criminal activity.”

But Bump fact-checked Comer.

"None of that is true, including the part about the 'group' of 'confidants'," he wrote.

Bump states Comer merely "chaired a hearing involving two people who had worked briefly with members of Biden’s family."

And yet, Comer's taking victory laps.

“At any other time in history,” his email adds, “that would have been the final nail in the coffin of the Biden Crime Family’s reign of corruption.”

Again, Bump injects sobriety: "If what he wrote had been true, perhaps," he writes. "But it wasn’t."

Comer shames Democrats for supposedly choosing "their party over their country and the truth at every turn."

“That’s why I am preparing criminal referrals as the culmination of my investigation,” he adds.

To do so, Comer is already hedging the next White House occupier.

“When President Trump returns to the White House it’s critical the new leadership at the DOJ have everything they need to prosecute the Biden Crime Family and deliver swift justice.”

Bump needles Comer's suggestion that he's banking on the next administration since Biden's DOJ hasn't proven supportive, writing, "It’s a clever pivot, from throwing up his hands at the inevitable inaction of the Biden Justice Department to making his efforts part of Donald Trump’s broader pledge of retribution."

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