Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, could find herself in deep, deep trouble with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, as a brand new probe is being launched into the Biden-Harris Administration for potentially misusing taxpayer dollars to pay for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit an ammunition plant in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. The reason this is such a big deal is because it’s being alleged that Zelenskyy engaged in efforts to help Harris’ campaign.
The investigation came about after reports came out that Zelenskyy was flown via a U.S. Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania in the days and weeks leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Comer’s committee will be taking a gander at the arrangement to determine if it fits the bill for an abuse of power — which President Joe Biden knows a lot about, what with his alleged participation in that influence peddling scheme while he was vice president — which has drawn a number of parallels to the 2019 impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump.
Here’s more from Trending Politics News:
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman Comer raised concerns about the parallels between this case and the 2019 impeachment, which accused Trump of attempting to use Zelensky to influence his 2020 re-election campaign. Comer points out the irony, writing, “In 2019, the Democrat-controlled House impeached President Donald J. Trump for abuse of power under the theory that he attempted to use a foreign leader—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—to benefit his 2020 presidential campaign, despite a lack of any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of President Trump.”
🚨 BREAKING: Chairman James Comer Is Investigating the Biden-Harris Admin’s Use of Taxpayer-Funded Resources to Fly Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Pennsylvania to Campaign for Kamala Harris
Chairman Comer today is opening an investigation into the Biden-Harris… pic.twitter.com/BaVKAhoFoO
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) September 25, 2024
The Republican-led Committee is focusing on whether the Biden-Harris Administration is guilty of a similar offense by using taxpayer dollars to transport a foreign leader for political gain. Comer’s letter specifically questions the justification for flying Zelensky to Pennsylvania, a state that has been described as “the trickiest battleground for Vice President Kamala Harris to win” in the upcoming election.
“The Committee seeks to determine whether the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to use a foreign leader to benefit Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign and, if so, necessarily committed an abuse of power,” the letter went on to say.
President Zelensky’s Pennsylvania stop included meetings with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a high-profile Democrat recently seen as a key figure in the Democratic Party’s bid to retain the White House. Further fueling the investigation, Zelensky made comments critical of the Trump-Vance ticket during a recent interview with The New Yorker. While no formal charges have been filed, the investigation is expected to examine whether the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions could amount to an ethical violation or potential criminal misuse of federal resources.
Lawmakers on the Republican side of the aisle are making the case that the current situation that the Biden-Harris Administration and Zelenskyy are involved in is very similar to the accusations that were made against former President Trump during the so-called “Ukraine scandal. In a completely different letter that was addressed to Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin, Comer once again stressed the weight of the matter at hand, saying, “The Committee seeks to understand the circumstances that led and any facts that could justify the Biden-Harris Administration to transport President Zelensky on a Department of the Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania.”
Sometimes, I get the feeling that when it comes to consistency in the application of principles, Democrats are far behind in the game. Whether that’s from incompetence or choice, I don’t know for sure.