I hold questioning what our congressman is doing as of late? Isn’t Rep. James Comer the chair of the Home Oversight Committee? I carry the next examples to his consideration:
• Inordinate development in Trump household wealth since January of 2025. In line with articles in The New Yorker and Forbes, the Trump household’s wealth has elevated between $1.4 billion and $4.2 billion since his second time period started. The primary drivers of this wealth embody cryptocurrency, together with the launch of the World Liberty Monetary platform, TRUMP and MELANIA meme cash, and bitcoin mining. Luxurious actual property developments in Albania, Oman, and Saudi Arabia are a part of this.
Different drivers of household wealth embody inventory manipulations and Trump’s Reality Social firm in addition to branded merchandising. In line with the Wall Avenue Journal, this wealth accumulation included a $500 million fee days earlier than the inauguration from the UAE to purchase a 49% stake in World Liberty Monetary, a cryptocurrency enterprise based by the Trump household.
In line with an article on Might 31 in Sports activities Enterprise Journal, on March 25, Trump purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 value of inventory in TKO Holdings, which owns the UFC Championship and is spending $60 million to host the UFC cage fights on the White Home on June 14. A Every day Beast article of Might 30 acknowledged the next: “In the case of Trump’s grift, brazen is an understatement,” stated Lauren White from the Residents for Duty and Ethics in Washington. “Utilizing the White Home to advertise an organization and concurrently shopping for inventory in that firm is an unbelievable battle of curiosity. Trump is appearing as if ‘the individuals’s home’ is an promoting company and inventory trade.”
• A “settlement” that created immunity for the Trump household from present and future IRS audits and oversight and lawsuits.
On the time of this writing on June 3, Decide Kathleen Williams determined to reopen Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit towards the IRS after a bipartisan group of 35 federal judges inspired her to take action, seeing one thing suspicious within the “settlement.” The transient filed by the previous federal judges included this gorgeous passage: “…as a result of ‘[t]he events’ “collusive” exercise perpetrated a fraud on the judicial equipment itself, by fostering an look that the litigation concerned antagonistic events, when, in actual fact, it didn’t,” the court docket ought to void its prior dismissal and reopen the case to evaluate in the end whether or not a fraud occurred.”
Keep in mind the context for this “immunity:” In 2022, Trump’s firm was discovered responsible of 17 counts of tax fraud and falsifying enterprise data; in 2024, Trump and his corporations had been ordered to pay $355 million in penalties for participating in a years-long scheme to dupe banks with monetary statements that inflated his wealth. On June 3, Heather Cox Richardson wrote: “appearing lawyer normal Todd Blanche advised members of Congress at this time that he wouldn’t commit in writing to not proceed with the slush fund, and that the Division of Justice is not dropping the plan to offer Trump, his household, and the Trump Group broad amnesty for any legal guidelines damaged in previous tax filings and a cross on future audits.” On June 11, Federal Decide Leonie Brinkema of the Japanese District of Virginia indefinitely suspended the “weaponization” slush fund.
• Suspicious buying and selling that seems to come back from insider info.
PBS reported on Might 28 about Trump’s suspicious buying and selling actions. Reporter Liz Landers discovered a Trump disclosure Type 278 that exposed 3,700 trades within the first three months of this 12 months amounting to thousands and thousands of {dollars} in transactions. Dan Alexander, senior editor of Forbes journal, acknowledged in the identical report that “there’s simply no precedent in latest historical past” of this quantity of buying and selling exercise. Landers gave this instance: on March 23, Trump introduced that the U.S. and Iran had been having “superb and productive conversations.” Oil costs plunged almost 11%. Trump’s brokerage account spent the day shopping for Phillips 66, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Lockheed Martin and Common Dynamics, “all corporations that stood to revenue the longer the conflict continued.”
Richard Plainter, former chief White Home ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, stated in the identical report that “If, by his official actions, he really can change the value of the inventory, and he owns the inventory, that’s a monetary battle of curiosity that must be prohibited.” Landers gave one other instance: “In early January, the president’s account bought between $500,000 and $1 million value of Nvidia inventory. Every week earlier than, commerce officers accepted the sale of some Nvidia chips to China. In February, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million extra simply days earlier than Nvidia introduced a significant laptop processing energy take care of Meta.”
• Others near the Trumps equally engaged in suspicious buying and selling actions.
John Cassidy in a Might 25 article in The New Yorker wrote, “Right this moment Robert Faturechi of ProPublica reported that Trump’s commerce advisor Peter Navarro personally pressured the Pentagon to mortgage $620 million to Vulcan Parts, a small North Carolina startup firm wherein Donald Trump Jr. has a monetary stake. Navarro and Don Jr. seem like shut, and a Pentagon official advised Faturechi that “[t]he name got here from the White Home: We’ve to get this completed.”
In line with Faturechi, the Pentagon invested $620 million in Vulcan, a rare-earth magnet firm, and one other $80 million in its accomplice ReElement. The Commerce Division supplied one other $50 million in incentives, and the federal government took a $50 million stake in Vulcan. When Trump Jr.’s enterprise capital agency 1789 Capital invested in Vulcan in August 2025, the corporate was value about $200 million. After the federal government investments, that valuation jumped to round $2 billion.”
A Washington Put up Might 28 article acknowledged that: “Authorities ethics watchdogs are sounding the alarm after the Pentagon introduced that the U.S. tech firm Dell has been granted a $9.7 billion authorities contract, pointing to inventory transactions that recommend President Donald Trump doubtlessly stands to realize financially from the deal. Trump has repeatedly praised the corporate at public occasions, and authorities disclosure kinds present that on Feb. 10 Trump’s portfolio acquired inventory in Dell Applied sciences valued between $1 million and $5 million. 9 days later, at a rally in Georgia, the president inspired supporters to ‘exit and purchase a Dell laptop.’”
So the place is James Comer on this stable proof of graft and corruption?
Comer was enormously exorcised throughout the Biden administration a couple of $40,000 private verify written by Biden to his sister-in-law, Sara Biden, in September 2017. The verify stated within the memo line that it was a “mortgage compensation.” Regardless of that, Comer continued to state, significantly on Fox Information, that this was proof of Biden “corruption.” Comer beat that drum all through a lot of Biden’s presidency. It amounted to little. However now, given the huge proof of Trump corruption and graft, Comer has remained curiously quiet. Isn’t Trump’s large accumulation of wealth and insider buying and selling value your time, Congressman? Doesn’t the first District of Kentucky deserve higher?
George Packer quoted from ethics lawyer and Washington College Legislation College professor Kathleen Clark within the Might The Atlantic: “We’re residing in an period when the corruption is occurring on an unprecedented scale, orders of magnitude bigger than something we’ve seen within the historical past of this nation.”
Maybe former president Harry Truman stated it greatest: “Present me a person that will get wealthy by being a politician, and I’ll present you a criminal.”
Ernie Lewis, of Frankfort, is a retired lawyer. He may be reached at ernie.lewis@gmail.com
