'Doesn't seem worried': Analyst says Comer’s scrutiny of Biden curiously absent for Trump

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) crashed and burned going over President Joe Biden's financial records with a fine-tooth comb to look for a reason to impeach him, a Washington Post analyst wrote in a scathing column Wednesday — but now he's signaling Trump won't get an iota of scrutiny, because in his view Trump's got nothing to hide.

"Almost immediately, he got to work trying to tie President Joe Biden to business deals involving his son Hunter and brother Jim," wrote Philip Bump. "He failed, accomplishing little more than detailing payments received by the other Bidens and hinting ominously that occasions on which Hunter Biden’s business partners met his father meant that something sinister (and apparently undetectable even with the robust investigatory powers of Congress) was afoot."

Meanwhile, his star witness, Alexander Smirnov, was charged with lying to the FBI.

Indeed, in a chaotic interview with CNN's Pamela Brown, Comer even insisted he found wrongdoing from Joe Biden and repeated debunked talking points about Biden meddling in Ukrainian politics for personal gain.

But just as importantly, Bump noted: Comer rationalized why Trump won't receive the same level of scrutiny.

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“Well, I think that he’s been transparent,” said Comer. “You know, the problem that we had with the Bidens, they never were transparent with where their money came from.”

He added that voters already know Trump owns foreign businesses, “So as long as I think the president’s honest with the American people, I think the American people will be satisfied with it.”

The sleight of hand here, Bump wrote, is that "Comer is conflating awareness of a business with what the business is doing. Sure, we know that Trump has a deal with any number of businesses in any number of companies. We know, according to his financial disclosure, that he benefits from hundreds of corporate entities — what Comer would have sneeringly described as 'shell companies' were they Hunter Biden’s. But we don’t know what money is going into those corporations and what government business the people sending that money might be contacting Trump about. But as long as Trump is honest, Comer says, it’s okay. Surely, we can be confident in that."

The truth, Bump concluded, is that "Biden was transparent about where his money came from, releasing his tax records. It was just that Comer didn’t believe him or, perhaps, didn’t want America to believe him. Trump, by contrast, has dozens of ways to put money in his pockets or his family’s pockets and no precedent or intent of detailing how much money went in which pocket and from whom. Happily for him, James Comer doesn’t seem that worried about it."