James Comer Told Jared Kushner to ‘F*ck Off’ After Criticizing Him Over Business Deals With the Saudis

LEFT: James Comer (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) RIGHT: Jared Kushner (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) claims that he told Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, to “fuck off” after Kushner had an emissary chide Comer for criticizing his business dealings with Saudi Arabia.

In 2022, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund committed to investing $2 billion in Kushner’s Affinity Partners. During a 2023 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Comer said, “Look, I’ve been vocal that I think that what Kushner did crossed the line of ethics. But what [Chris] Christie said, it happened after he left office. Still no excuse, Jake, but it happened after he left office. And Jared Kushner actually has a legitimate business.”

In his new book, All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich, Comer recalled what happened after his CNN appearance:

The next day a GOP consultant close to both Kushner and Representative Kevin McCarthy called telling me that I needed to change my statement.

I explained to him that my statement was correct, and that my only regret was that I unintentionally defended Kushner when I accurately stated the difference between his and Hunter Biden’s activities. Kushner does have legitimate businesses with assets and a transparent purpose. Kushner negotiated the Abraham Accords with the Saudis and then started a business to make money from the new trade rules. At least there’s a noncorrupt explanation for the business, something Hunter Biden has rarely offered. Nevertheless, I felt that Kushner tested ethics by going to Saudi Arabia so soon after leaving office to secure a legitimated $2 billion investment into those businesses. I explained to the GOP consultant (who was obviously a mouthpiece for Kushner) that under my planed legislation to ban influence peddling, Kushner’s dealing would not be legally allowed.

I figured I had a direct line to Jared Kushner at that moment, so I finished up the call by instructing the consultant to tell Kushner to f–off. I hoped Kushner was listening on speaker phone.

Kushner has defended his post-White House business with Saudi Arabia by asking if his critics could “point to a single decision we made that wasn’t in the interest of America” while he was in government.