House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., blasted Democrats Sunday for accusing President Donald Trump of hijacking America's 250th birthday celebration for political and financial gain, arguing the attacks reflect hatred for the president rather than love of country."[Democrats] would rather Donald Trump fail and America fail than celebrate the success of our founding fathers and the fact that we are the greatest nation on the planet," Comer told "The Big Weekend Show.""We are the greatest nation in the history of the world.Anyone can become anything in America because of the sacrifices of our founding fathers, the sacrifices of our soldiers, the sacrifices of our American heroes, and that's what last night was all about."TRUMP SET TO DELIVER 'HISTORIC' SPEECH CELEBRATING AMERICA'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY"I think that all they're going to do if they flip the House and become the majority in the House is investigate and harass Donald Trump," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said following allegations by Democrats that President Trump "hijacked" America's 250th birthday celebration for personal gain.
(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Comer's remarks came after Rep.Jared Huffman, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, released a 55-page report accusing Trump of transforming the America 250 celebration into a partisan spectacle that advanced his political and religious agenda."[This follows] months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country's 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny," a press release said of the report.More specifically, the release accused the Trump administration of creating the "shadow organiza...