Is the quote below the response you mentioned? I can't be sure because although the business arrangements and reasons were different, there was nothing debunking the total $200,000 figure. Which is the part that seemed like a weird coincidence and therefore struck me as being ironic. I don't think I said or suggested it was 'apples to apples'.
Really? Their dad sold Comer's brother an encumbered farm to keep it in the family which he could not afford so Comer lent him the money to buy it. Seems convoluted. If the dad’s goal was to keep the property in the family, why not just sell to whichever son could afford it or if possible, to both brothers jointly and let them work out the details between them, like families often do. What a weird transaction. Something does not add up…. please explain.
There was no loan - it was a gift from Comer. Dad didn't sell anything - he willed it. There's nothing strange about it at all.
“I’ve never loaned my brother one penny,” Comer explained. “My father, who was a dentist, had some farmland. He died and my brother couldn’t afford it. He wanted to sell it but he wanted to keep it in the family. So I bought it from my brother.”
But the DailyBeast ran this headline: “James Comer, Like Joe Biden, Also Paid His Brother $200K.”
Disingenuous and misleading....as there are literally no similarities. But to make it worse, a dumbass Congressman named James Moskowitz tried to draw the same parallel, and Comer schooled him.
So we have two sitiuations:
One where a brother bought an inherited piece of property as a gift to his brother for some land he couldn't afford to keep.
And another where a mysterious "loan repayment" check was written to a brother, right after his family received larges sums of money from Russian oligarchs/companies that were routed through shell companies first and then divided up. Transactions and business dealings that said brother has been proven twice to have lied about.
It's not close to the same.