{"id":17369,"date":"2024-03-28T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/comer-rejects-democrats-demand-for-hearing-on-influence-peddling-by-jared-kushner\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:46:40","slug":"comer-rejects-democrats-demand-for-hearing-on-influence-peddling-by-jared-kushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/comer-rejects-democrats-demand-for-hearing-on-influence-peddling-by-jared-kushner\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer rejects Democrats\u2019 demand for hearing on \u2018influence peddling\u2019 by Jared Kushner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is rejecting the latest attempt by Democrats to shift scrutiny onto former President Trump\u2019s inner circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the committee, led a letter to Comer on Tuesday calling for a hearing into allegations of \u2018apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals\u2019 by Trump\u2019s son-in-law and former White House adviser, Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>Comer told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that Kushner\u2019s business was \u2018legitimate\u2019 and dismissed the request as a bid to \u2018shield President Biden from oversight.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the House Oversight Committee\u2019s GOP majority conducts an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over accusations he used his former position as vice president to enrich himself and his family, particularly through foreign business deals. Both the president and the White House have denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Unlike the Bidens, Jared Kushner has a legitimate business and has a career as a business executive that predates Donald Trump\u2019s political career,\u2019 Comer told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Democrats\u2019 latest letter is part of their playbook to shield President Biden from oversight. The House Oversight Committee will continue to investigate President Biden\u2019s abuse of public office and hold the Bidens accountable for their corruption.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., wrote to Comer, \u2018This Committee cannot claim to be \u2018investigating foreign nationals\u2019 attempts to target and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials\u2019 family members by providing money or other benefits in exchange for certain actions\u2019 while continuing to ignore these matters. We therefore urge you to work with us to finally investigate Mr. Kushner\u2019s receipt of billions of dollars from foreign governments in deals that appear to be quid pro quos for actions he undertook as senior White House adviser in Donald Trump\u2019s Administration.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They also accused Comer of having \u2018allowed Mr. Kushner to repeatedly ignore and defy these requests,\u2019 citing Democrats\u2019 repeated urging to subpoena Kushner and his firm.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of Raskin and Garcia\u2019s latest letter is a New York Times report from earlier this month that claims Kushner is in the final stages of major real estate deals in Albania and Serbia. The report also noted that those deals are coming to fruition while Trump seeks a second term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Kushner told the outlet he was \u2018excited\u2019 and \u2018working hard\u2019 to close the deals.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 attention to Kushner\u2019s foreign business ties comes as impeachment investigators focus on the president\u2019s son Hunter Biden and his foreign business dealings in Ukraine and China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is rejecting the latest attempt by Democrats to shift scrutiny onto former President Trump\u2019s inner circle.\u00a0 Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the committee, led a letter to Comer on Tuesday calling for a hearing into allegations of \u2018apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}