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Congressman James Comer is doing what too many in Washington refuse to do: he’s holding powerful tech platforms to account and forcing answers from the elites who run them. This week Comer formally invited the CEOs of major online forum platforms to testify before the House Oversight Committee about how their services are being used to radicalize Americans and enable political violence, and he’s not backing down.
Comer also told conservative audiences on national television that the scandal around Joe Biden’s last-minute clemency decisions and the use of autopen signatures isn’t a political sideshow — it’s a constitutional crisis that could put Biden’s pardons and executive orders in serious legal jeopardy. Republicans should be blunt: if a president is so disengaged that staff are signing his name without clear authority, the rule of law is undermined and those actions deserve judicial scrutiny.
House Oversight’s investigation has already uncovered disturbing testimony and troubling gaps in transparency — including testimony about the autopen and conflicting accounts of who approved what when clemencies were issued. Comer’s committee has made it plain that they will pursue witnesses and documents aggressively, because the American people deserve to know whether the last days of the Biden White House were run by staffers instead of a competent commander-in-chief.
When the White House waived executive privilege and key witnesses then refused to cooperate, Comer moved quickly and warned he would subpoena those who won’t come forward. That refusal to testify after privilege was waived smells of obstruction, and hardworking Americans should be outraged that insiders appear more interested in protecting reputations than in telling the truth.
The core of the outrage is simple and patriotic: Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons — including for his own son — and far too many Americans believe that pardon power was abused to shield political allies and family. Those pardons, and the circumstances under which they were signed, now face serious legal and political scrutiny, and Republicans in Congress are right to demand answers and accountability for actions that appear self-serving.
It’s time conservatives stop treating tech giants like untouchable monopolies and start treating them like publishers and platforms with real responsibility for what they host on their systems. If Discord, Reddit, Twitch and others are incubating violent ideas while censoring conservative voices, they must answer to the American people and to Congress — and Comer’s push to bring their CEOs under oath is a necessary first step.
Patriots should cheer this moment of oversight: for too long the left’s allies in media, social platforms, and government have insulated themselves from consequence. Now the oversight hammer is coming down, and if Republicans follow through with grit and principle, we can restore some measure of accountability to a system that’s been rigged against ordinary Americans for far too long.
