Republican Oversight Committee chair James Comer was quick to jump in front of television cameras on propaganda outlets friendly to his Trump-supporting messaging on Monday night to promote lies he supposedly got from the testimony of one-time Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer, asserting the accounts he heard in the session conclusively prove the need for an impeachment investigation.
There’s one problem: multiple sources tell the Daily Beast that Comer didn’t attend the closed-door hearing, nor did he participate remotely in the session. Still, when a Newsmax host prefaced a question with, “You were in the room,” Comer did not correct the statement. It was one of at least four television appearances Comer made after the session in which he let the audience believe he was part of the hearing and had heard the testimony himself.
“A few Republicans were disappointed that Chairman Comer didn’t show up to the Archer transcribed interview,” a senior GOP source commented. “It was like following a general into battle, but the general decided to stay home instead of fight. Especially when there are other members who would love to have interviewed Archer but aren’t on the Oversight Committee and not allowed in the room.”