Is Biden Probe’s Top Republican Guilty of the Same Corruption He’s Accusing Others Of?

James Comer, the top Republican in the Biden impeachment inquiry, appears to be guilty of the very same corruption of which he’s accused the President. 

For most of 2023, Comer has appeared on various news outlets in his desperate quest to persuade the American people that President Biden is corrupt and guilty of an impeachable offense. 

Critical to his baseless accusations is the idea that the President’s family, including brother James and son Hunter, employed “shell companies” to launder ill-gotten foreign money which made its way into the personal accounts of Biden family members.

Including the President, Comer often insinuates—totally without evidence.

But investigative reporting from the Associated Press has revealed that Comer, an elected official who wields considerable power and public trust, is involved in a shell company of his own with his wife and a major campaign contributor.

Comer declined to provide comment to the AP—unusual for a man as media-thirsty as he—despite its report that his shell company, Farm Team Properties, “functions in a similarly opaque way as the companies used by the Bidens, masking his stake in the land that he co-owns with the donor from being revealed on his financial disclosure forms.”

AP investigators determined Farm Team Properties holds at least six acres of Comer’s land and perhaps other assets. Financial ethicists are dubious about Comer’s tactics:

“It seems pretty clear to me that he should be disclosing the individual land assets that are held by” the shell company,” a specialist in congressional ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington named Delaney Marsco told AP.

“This is actually a real problem that anti-corruption activists would love to get legislative reform on,” said another government ethics expert named Kathleen Clark to the AP. “It is hard to trace assets held in shell companies. His is a good example.”

By Comer’s own standards, perhaps his Oversight Committee—or, if not future iterations led by Democrats—should investigate his shady finances.