Oversight committee members are asking the GOP chair to demand key documents days after he admitted Kushner “crossed the line of ethics”
But earlier this month, Comer himself acknowledged that Kushner had “crossed the line of ethics” in his foreign business dealings, a statement Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is looking to capitalize on.
Kushner served as senior advisor to Trump on matters of foreign policy, including in the Middle East, despite a lack of previous foreign policy experience. After Kushner left government service at the end of his father-in-law’s term, Affinity secured a $2 billion investment from the state-owned sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Affinity raised an additional $400 million in investment from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Raskin referenced Comer’s fixation on Hunter Biden in his appeal to the chair. “I trust that you will recognize that the Committee cannot claim to be “investigating foreign nationals’ attempts to target and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials’ family members by providing money or other benefits in exchange for certain actions” without examining the former Administration’s plethora of foreign financial entanglements,” he wrote.