The congressman who clashed with Kushner
'So I finished up the call by instructing the consultant to tell Kushner to f--- off.'
Kentucky Rep. James Comer says he invoked an expletive against President Donald Trump’s son-in-law when he felt pressure to retract a statement he made about Jared Kushner’s foreign financial deals.
The recollection comes from last March, when Comer stated in an interview that Kushner’s business dealings with Saudi Arabia during Trump’s first term crossed an ethical line.
“The next day a GOP consultant close to both Kushner and Representative Kevin McCarthy called telling me that I needed to change my statement,” Comer writes in his new book, “All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich.”
Comer, who did not name the consultant, did not back down, relaying to the operative that he felt Kushner “tested ethics by going to Saudi Arabia so soon after leaving office to secure a legitimate $2 billion investment in those businesses.”
At the time, Comer was pushing his Presidential Ethics Reform Act, a bipartisan bill that would force future presidents and their running mates to disclose two years of tax returns as well as payments, gifts and loans from foreign entities before occupying the White House as well as prohibiting family members from profiting financially from a presidency.
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Comer appears to be one of the very few in Congress who is quite open and non-partisan in his criticisms. Now I'll await a story about the hundreds of millions in fees the Biden family has collected for "managing" that $1.5 billion for the Chinese communists.