Oversight Panel Chief to Meet With Bondi, Patel on Bidens’ Business Dealings, Deep State Reforms

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer is set to meet Friday with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to run the Justice Department and the FBI.  

In Comer’s meetings with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel—Trump’s picks to be the next attorney general and FBI director, respectively—they will discuss topics including potential corruption by outgoing President Joe Biden’s family as well as federal bureaucrats, Comer told The Daily Signal. 

The Kentucky Republican noted that the president’s pardon of his son Hunter extended back to 2014, as far back as the bank records of financial transactions that the House subpoenaed. 

“We want to see the Justice Department hold these people accountable for crimes that have been committed. A lot of the crimes that Hunter committed happened prior to 2014,” Comer said in a wide-ranging interview to be aired in full on “The Daily Signal Podcast.”

“The pardon Joe issued to Hunter Biden started in 2014 and went to today, I guess the rest of his life. The reason he went back to 2014 [was] that’s when we started subpoenaing bank records. That was about as far back as I could go with the banks.”

Comer’s new book, “All the President’s Money,” was released this week. 

Comer further noted that the president’s brother, Jim Biden, was also involved in unusual business activity. 

Hunter Biden was convicted on a gun crime and pleaded guilty on tax charges last year. He was pardoned by his father last month. Jim Biden has not been charged with a crime. 

The president has said the investigations in Congress and by special counsel David Weiss were politically motivated. In his final report on the investigation of Hunter Biden, which became public this week, Weiss—who initially offered what critics called a “sweetheart deal” to the president’s son—took issue with the president’s characterization.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has said the investigations were meritless and criticized the Justice Department for bringing the cases. 

Comer noted that when questioning the Biden family’s financial activity, “the deep state would step in and say, ‘No, stand down.’”

“That’s what I want to talk to Kash Patel about,” the Kentucky Republican said. 

“Look, I’m not telling you what to do, but you need to hold these people accountable or you’re never going to reform these intelligence communities, if you don’t set some examples out of some people, some deep state, unelected bureaucrats that have abused their power,” Comer said, suggesting what he would say to Patel. 

The oversight chairman said he already sees a major improvement. He suspected that outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray would leak inaccurate information about the oversight committee’s investigations to the media. 

“I’ve gone for two years having to watch my back with Christopher Wray,” Comer said. “So, to go from a guy that was dishonest to me, that obstructed all my investigations …  to Kash Patel, a guy who called me wanting to meet, to talk, to get advice, and strategize about cleaning that agency up, it’s a pretty good day for me. And Pam Bondi, I will be communicating with her on holding people accountable.

“Jan. 20th can’t get here fast enough for me,” Comer said.

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