James Comer Is Mad

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) this week came up with a new excuse for why reporters keep writing he’s found “no evidence” incriminating President Joe Biden.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Comer told a Fox News radio host , is “working with the Deep State who’s working with the liberal mainstream media to try to indoctrinate into people’s minds that there’s no evidence.”

Comer has griped about the media coverage of his impeachment inquiry all along, but describing it as a deep state conspiracy is new. It’s also telling, because it’s ridiculous and it shows his tendency toward exaggeration, which is why reporters are always pointing out that actually, he’s got no evidence.

And that’s why he’s so mad.

To take one example, Comer complained Monday on Fox News that he had “proven” Biden received $250,000 thanks to global influence peddling by his family members cashing in on the last name he’d made famous.

The committee revealed in October that it had obtained bank records showing two payments, one for $200,000 and another for $40,000, from James and Sara Biden, the president’s brother and sister-in-law, to an account connected to Joe Biden, in 2018.

Comer trumpeted evidence of a “direct payment” to Joe Biden. He claimed it was dirty money James Biden only earned because his brother was in on the scheme.

But the checks said “loan repayment” on the memo line, and, as HuffPost reported at the time , other records in the committee’s possession suggested Joe Biden had previously sent the same sums to James and Sara Biden. So what it really looked like was Comer caught Joe Biden loaning his brother money at a time when he was flush with cash from his 2017 memoir.

Comer refused to accept that the money was a