‘He Needs a Mental Health Day’: Democrat Recalls Wild Clash With James Comer in Committee Hearing

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) told MSNBC that House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) is in need of “a mental health day” after the two got into a verbal brawl on Tuesday.

After MSNBC Chris Hayes remarked that Congress seemed “weirdly more unhinged over there than usual,” Moskowitz said, “That’s a pretty good, you know, observation. It’s been going on for the last ten months. Obviously, it’s devolved since January 6. It’s devolved since Donald Trump, you know, continues to lower the bar, day in and day out, and they repeat it. It’s continued behavior.”

Moskowitz continued, “I mean listen, you know, if the chairman is listening, I think he needs a mental health day,” before adding:

They have such thin skin, these Republican. They like to dish it out, but man, they just cannot take it. You know, he’s been going on TV, day in and day out, talking about the brother and the president and they do business together, when he wasn’t in office by the way, and as soon as there’s an article written that the chairman is doing the exact same thing, all I did was ask the chairman to explain it, and he just totally lost it.

I needed Bernie Sanders to be like, “Sit down, Mr. Chairman!” You know, and put him in his seat, but yeah, look, you saw it. I mean he’s been running hearings all year. His own witnesses have said there is nothing there on Joe Biden, there is nothing for impeachment, and yet they want to continue this day in and day out. So I’m glad the chairman exposed himself today.

Moskowitz and Comer got into a verbal brawl during a hearing on Tuesday after Moskowitz brought up a report which alleged Comer had sent his brother $200,000.

According to the report, Comer — who has targeted President Joe Biden over a $200,000 loan repayment he received from his brother when he was out of office — engaged in similar practices with his own brother through “land swaps related to their family farming business.”

The Daily Beast reported that, “In one deal—also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company—the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing,” and that “other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show.”

The report also claimed that “unlike with the Bidens, Comer’s own history actually borders a conflict of interest between his official government role and his private family business—and it’s been going on for decades.”

During the brawl, Comer called the report “completely false” and claimed, “I’ve never loaned my brother one penny.” The House Oversight Committee chairman went on to make a dig at Moskowitz’s blue suit, comparing him to a “Smurf,” as the two men shouted over each other.

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