‘You look like a Smurf’ Comer explodes at Dem who targeted his family finances

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer lambasted a Democratic lawmaker as a “liar” and a “Smurf” during a contentious Tuesday hearing after Comer’s own family finances came under scrutiny.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) provoked Comer (R-Ky.) by demanding he publicly explain a financial transaction involving his brother.

“You also do business with your brother with potential loans. And so, since you have framed that and manipulated that with the American people, that Joe Biden did something wrong when he wasn’t in office, I just would like to know if you would like to use some of my time,” Moskowitz said.

Comer (R-Ky.) eagerly obliged, suggesting that characterizing a $218,000 payment he made to his brother Chad as a “loan” is “completely false.”

“I’ve never loaned my brother one penny,” Comer explained. “My father, who was a dentist, had some farmland. He died and my brother couldn’t afford it. He wanted to sell it but he wanted to keep it in the family. So I bought it from my brother.”

The transaction was reported last week by The Daily Beast, in an article with the headline: “James Comer, Like Joe Biden, Also Paid His Brother $200K.”

The Kentucky Republican went on to dispute the characterization of his third-party company “Farm Team Properties, LLC,” as a “shell company.”

“It was an LLC, they’re so financially illiterate that [they] think because something says ‘LLC’ it’s a shell company. This company … has properties. It manages over a thousand acres of land,” Comer stressed.

As Comer dove deeper into the specifics, Moskowitz sought to reclaim his time, but the chairman wasn’t having it.

“No, I’m not gonna give you your time back. We can stop the clock,” Comer said. “You look like a Smurf here just going around on all this stuff.”

The duo then proceeded to shout over each other, with Moskowitz accusing Comer of having a different standard for the president than himself.

“You go on Fox News and say loans and deals are a way to evade taxes? We don’t know if that’s what you’re doing or not,” Moskowitz said.

“Mr. Chairman, this seems to seem to have gotten under your skin,” he added. “Perhaps we should sit maybe for a deposition.”

Comer then agreed that he would be willing to go under deposition with Hunter Biden and go over “our LLCs.”

The Oversight chairman had stressed that he had simply bought land, but “didn’t get wires from Romania, China.”

Moskowitz and Comer’s exchange came during a hearing on the General Services Administration.

During that hearing, Comer called on the GSA’s inspector general to investigate allegations of political interference in the selection of the FBI’s next headquarters.

Last week, Comer, who is spearheading the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden, blasted out subpoenas for the testimony of first son Hunter Biden, first brother James Biden and other associates of the president’s family.

In recent weeks, Comer has called attention to two payments to Joe Biden from his brother James Biden, citing subpoenaed bank records.

Both transfers were described on checks as loan repayments, but Comer expressed doubts and said that even if they were loans, they show the president directly benefited from his family’s foreign ventures.

The first payment was for $40,000 in September 2017 and the second was for $200,000 in March 2018.

Comer claimed that the $40,000 was “laundered” funds from since-defunct Chinese government-linked CEFC China Energy, which paid at least $6.1 million to Hunter and James Biden in 2017 and 2018 — most of it after Hunter threatened his father’s wrath in July 2017, writing to a China-based associate that he was “sitting here with my father” and “we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”

Joe Biden at one point was penciled in for a 10% cut from a joint venture with CEFC, according to a May 2017 email from his son’s business partner James Gilliar, who referred to the elder Biden as the “big guy.”

House Republicans connect the dots to China by noting that Hunter Biden moved money from Chinese companies to his Owasco firm in August 2017, then sent about $150,000 of that to Lion Hall Group, which James Biden controls. Later that month James Biden’s wife Sara withdrew $50,000 from Lion Hall Group into the pair’s checking account.

The president’s allies have disputed that, noting that a firm of his wired $40,000 to James and Sara Biden on July 28, 2017 as a loan.

As for the $200,000, Comer noted that James Biden transferred the money to Joe Biden on the same day that James received an identical amount — $200,000 — from Americore Health.

A court filing last year by Americore Health’s bankruptcy trustee said James Biden “procured” the funds “based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”

Comer has publicly said he believes President Biden should be impeachment, but noted that the decision will ultimately be up to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)

President Biden and the White House have downplayed accusations of wrongdoing and accused Comer of partisanship.