WASHINGTON Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) this week came up with a new excuse for why reporters keep writing hes found no evidence incriminating President Joe Biden.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Comer told a Fox News radio host , is working with the Deep State whos working with the liberal mainstream media to try to indoctrinate into peoples minds that theres no evidence.

Comer has griped about the media coverage of his impeachment inquiry all along, but describing it as a deep state conspiracy is new. Its also telling, because its ridiculous and it shows his tendency toward exaggeration, which is why reporters are always pointing out that actually, hes got no evidence.

And thats why hes so mad.

To take one example, Comer complained Monday on Fox News that he had proven Biden received $250,000 thanks to global influence peddling by his family members cashing in on the last name hed made famous.

The committee revealed in October that it had obtained bank records showing two payments, one for $200,000 and another for $40,000, from James and Sara Biden, the presidents brother and sister-in-law, to an account connected to Joe Biden, in 2018.

Comer trumpeted evidence of a direct payment to Joe Biden. He claimed it was dirty money James Biden only earned because his brother was in on the scheme.

But the checks said loan repayment on the memo line, and, as HuffPost reported at the time , other records in the committees possession suggested Joe Biden had previously sent the same sums to James and Sara Biden. So what it really looked like was Comer caught Joe Biden loaning his brother money at a time when he was flush with cash from his 2017 memoir.