There was a moment of accidental honesty on “Fox & Friends First” this morning, and it came from a member of Congress who has been saying for months that his probe of the Biden family is merely about finding out the facts.
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) was a guest on Fox, and he was introduced by host Ashley Strohmier with this:
“We have talked to you about this on the show, about how the media can just not ignore this any longer. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, it says, ‘Millions Flowed to Biden Family Members. Don’t Pretend It Doesn’t Matter.’ So do you think that because of your investigation, that is what’s moved this needle with the media?”
And that’s when Comer said the quiet part out loud, accidentally admitting that his investigation is all about politics.
“Absolutely. There’s no question,” Comer replied. “You look at the polling, and right now Donald Trump is 7 points ahead of Joe Biden and trending upward, Joe Biden’s trending downward. And I believe that the media is looking around, scratching their head, and they’re realizing that the American people are keeping up with our investigation.”
Sounds a lot like comments made by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) during a 2015 appearance on Fox when he admitted that the House Benghazi committee was created for the purpose of hurting Hillary Clinton politically.
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee ― what are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping, why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened.”
Oh, and one other thing about Comer’s remarks.
He claimed that Trump is up over Biden in recent polls. That was one poll, an ABC News/Washington Post survey, and is considered to be an outlier. Other polls show Biden leading Trump in a head-to-head matchup.
Comer has also said that he has numerous witnesses and informants with information about the Biden family. However, he now claims his key witness has mysteriously been “lost.”
