James Comer Concedes It’d Be Politically Unsustainable for Him to Investigate Jared Kushner’s Business Dealings

[onthedarkside]

 

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sat for over six hours for a recent New York Times profile and offered extensive insight into how he plans to conduct investigations.

 

Comer, who is a regular guest on Fox News and other right-of-center media outlets, has made headlines in recent weeks claiming that his committee’s probe is getting closer and closer to proving “influence peddling” between Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and foreign governments – although Comer has yet to show concrete evidence.

 

During an interview, however, the reporters asked Comer if he was willing to apply the same kind of scrutiny he gives Hunter Biden to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/james-comer-concedes-itd-be-politically-unsustainable-for-him-to-investigate-jared-kushners-business-dealings/

 

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There's actually a huge difference between Hunter Biden's conduct and Jared Kushner's conduct apart from huge difference in the sums involved. For one thing, Hunter Biden has never been a government official. For another, he was not doing business with the government of China. In fact, the chairman and found of the Chinese company he was in business with is now in prison for corruption charges brought against him by the Chinese govt. 

 

Whereas Jared Kushner's was a govt official in a high-powered job. His purview was the Middle East. He consistently promoted Saudi interests while he was a government official. After leaving govt. service, he benefited from a 2 billion dollar investment from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. What's more, MbS. the defacto ruler of Saudi Arabia, overrode members of the board who wanted to refuse investing with Kushner.  And it gets even worse. While Kushner was still serving in the White House, the Qatar government helped to bail out Kushner's family from a disastrous investment he had made in a building in NYC. It was a sweetheart deal that made no financial sense. I wrote "helped" because most of the funding was kept confidential. Only a small portion was required by law to be made public. And that's the portion that was revealed to be funded by the Qataris

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[Chomper Higgot]

Don’t worry Jimmy, the DOJ can investigate Kushner.

 

Just carry on doing the stuff that’s distracting you from doing anything at all for the American people.

 

 

[bendejo]

Ten years ago I was disgusted at the Dems for being inept, while the GOP was the political Wehrmacht, with gerrymandering as their front lines.

The GOP shenanigans in this Congress are a complete role reversal, and it looks like JJordan and this Comer guy are competing to be Top Clown.

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I don’t disagree with the Democrats and their criticism of the previous administration. We have a problem here that needs a legislative solution.

Says Comer.  I'm sure the AG appreciates his input.

But amid all this GOP/MAGA turmoil someone isn't doing all that bad:

Trump Still Hasn’t Been Arrested But He’s Raked in $1.5 Million Riling Up His Supporters About Seeing Him in Handcuffs

 

Now wouldn't it be fun if the governor of Florida found cause to raid MarALago?

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-slams-desantis-for-chatting-with-ratings-challenged-piers-morgan-my-fault-i-put-him-there/

And this is why DT has no friends.

 

 

[bamnutsak]

On January 6 Jared Kushner was jetting back from Saudi Arabia.

 

And after leaving his White House job on January 20, he started a private equity fund.

 

'What was Jared doing?': MSNBC panel stunned by sources of Kushner's $3.1 billion cash haul

 

As Ratner noted, Kushner has zero experience as a hedge funder having only worked in real estate -- and notably not good at that -- before going to work in the White House.

 

"He worked in the White House and worked very hard, it is less clear what he worked hard at," the analyst began before explaining, "Because after he left the White House, he raised $3.1 billion -- that's billion with a 'b' -- for a private equity fund and he is not a private equity guy, he is a real estate guy. So where does the money come from? We know that he raised $3.1 billion and only about $30 million of it actually came from investors in the United States all the rest of it is foreign money. And of that foreign money, $2 billion came from the Saudis."

 

 

https://www.rawstory.com/jared-kushner-2663695210/

 

[Tug]

Yea if he investigated jarrod and ivanka the trumpers would be hanging him instead of pence at Donnie’s request lol ???? 

[Berkshire]

The definition of "politically unsustainable":  It doesn't benefit our side politically.

[bamnutsak]

8 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

The definition of "politically unsustainable":  It doesn't benefit our side politically.

 

 

So by deduction, his investigations into Hunter Biden are "political".

 

I'm thinking that Jared is wishing and hoping the investigations into Hunter Biden go away soon, before people start asking questions about what he did when he worked in the White House.

 

 

 

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Since Kushner was a government official when the Qataris helped at least partly to bail his family out of a disastrous investment made by Jared, I think it would be legitimate for Congress to investigate that investment. According to people who know about such things, the investment made no financial sense for the investors. It looked like money was just throw away. Who apart from a cash-rich government would make such an investment?

[Bkk Brian]

Jared Kushner ‘crossed the line of ethics’ by taking $2B Saudi investment: Comer

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer acknowledged Thursday that he believes former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “crossed the line of ethics” by accepting a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia. 

The Kentucky Republican — who has been leading a congressional probe into President Biden’s role in first son Hunter Biden’s overseas influence-peddling operation — was responding to comments from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who accused Kushner of “grifting.”

https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/comer-says-jared-kushner-crossed-the-line-of-ethics-by-accepting-2-billion-saudi-investment/

[LosLobo]

Beside Ivanka, glassy-eyed Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, his Trump-pardoned criminal father, there is proven sex predator, now fourfold indicted criminal defendant Mafioso Don with, just for example, his recent golf deal ties to the Saudis.

 

Hunter Biden's waywardness pales into insignificance compared to those of the Trump syndicated crime family.

 

I am sure a Congress House Committee could waste decades unravelling its extent, instead of working to help the American people and not leave the law to the judicial system.

 

Through Ties to Saudis, Golf Deal Promises Benefits to Trump - The New York Times (archive.li)

[candide]

5 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

On January 6 Jared Kushner was jetting back from Saudi Arabia.

 

And after leaving his White House job on January 20, he started a private equity fund.

 

'What was Jared doing?': MSNBC panel stunned by sources of Kushner's $3.1 billion cash haul

 

As Ratner noted, Kushner has zero experience as a hedge funder having only worked in real estate -- and notably not good at that -- before going to work in the White House.

 

"He worked in the White House and worked very hard, it is less clear what he worked hard at," the analyst began before explaining, "Because after he left the White House, he raised $3.1 billion -- that's billion with a 'b' -- for a private equity fund and he is not a private equity guy, he is a real estate guy. So where does the money come from? We know that he raised $3.1 billion and only about $30 million of it actually came from investors in the United States all the rest of it is foreign money. And of that foreign money, $2 billion came from the Saudis."

 

 

https://www.rawstory.com/jared-kushner-2663695210/

 

$3.2.B! Hats off! In comparison, Hunter is a pale amateur,with only a few miserable millions! ????

[bendejo]

16 hours ago, placeholder said:

Since Kushner was a government official when the Qataris helped at least partly to bail his family out of a disastrous investment made by Jared, I think it would be legitimate for Congress to investigate that investment. According to people who know about such things, the investment made no financial sense for the investors. It looked like money was just throw away. Who apart from a cash-rich government would make such an investment?

I suspect money laundering was involved.  I think that the former president with myriad indictments did a lot of that before he officially entered politics in June 2015.  That never-finished high-rise building in Baku that looks like lady parts is believed to be part of the enterprise.  There are Russians in the mix there as well.

 

But as for Comer, IMO his real motivation for this statement is he doesn't want the MAGA frothing-at-the-mouth crowd coming after him and his.

 

[Jingthing]

17 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

 

 

So by deduction, his investigations into Hunter Biden are "political".

 

I'm thinking that Jared is wishing and hoping the investigations into Hunter Biden go away soon, before people start asking questions about what he did when he worked in the White House.

 

 

 

I hope he's worried. The Trump Crime Family is the sleeper story of the year.