James Comer discovers another smoking water pistol

On Wednesday morning, Rep. James Comer announced that he had found proof that President Joe Biden had taken $40,000 in “laundered China money.” He accompanied this latest addition to his arsenal of smoking guns with charts and incendiary language about “blackmail” and “shady business.”

What Comer didn’t find was any evidence of an actual crime by Biden or anyone else. Instead, as his own diagrams show, these appear to be normal business transactions made among six different individuals and business entities at a time when Biden and everyone else in his family did not hold any public office.

As he has demonstrated on so many other occasions, Comer’s statement reveals nothing except that his investigation into Biden’s finances is both pointless and hollow. It’s appropriate that he’s releasing this latest “bombshell” on el Día de Muertos because this whole story is so, so dead.