Former President Donald Trump received endorsements from the entire Michigan Republican Congressional delegation Tuesday and gave all six Republican representatives who threw their support behind him positions on his Michigan federal leadership team. 

GOP Reps. Tim Walberg, Bill Huizenga, John Moolenaar, Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain, and John James gave Trump their full support for the 2024 race, saying the former president proved his ability to win key battleground states such as Michigan after he became the first Republican to win the state since George H.W. Bush in 1988. 

“Under the Trump presidency, America was prosperous, the economy was strong, the world was a safer place, and Michiganders were better off. President Trump has proven he has the ability to deliver results on Day One and also the ability to win in key battleground states like Michigan, being the only Republican to win a Presidential race here since 1988,” Walberg, Moolenaar, Bergman, and McClain said in a joint statement released by Trump’s team. 

James, a freshman in the House who many believe is a rising star in the Republican Party, praised Trump’s administration for helping middle-class families live comfortably during his time in office, something James said the Biden administration has failed to achieve. 

“President Biden has wrecked our economy, let our position as the sole world power slip, and opened our borders. Biden’s policies have been particularly detrimental to Michigan’s middle class,” James said. “Under President Trump on the other hand, inflation was at 2%, the American family was strengthened through the child tax credit and other pro-family policies, and our communities were more secure. In 2024, we need to give hope to Americans who feel like their government is failing them.”

Trump won the Great Lakes State in 2016, narrowly edging out Democrat Hillary Clinton by just over 10,000 votes. The 2016 election was a short-lived victory in Michigan for Trump and the Republican Party, however, as the former president lost the state to Joe Biden in 2020, and Michigan Democrats took full control of the state government in the 2022 midterms. 

The Midwest state will be an important battleground for whoever takes the Republican nomination as the winner of Michigan has gone on to win the presidency in each of the past four elections. Trump is currently dominating the large field of GOP candidates, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis coming in second as his closest challenger, but the Republican governor remains more than 30 percentage points behind Trump, according to Real Clear Politics polling average. 

The former president has received endorsements from ten Republican senators and 67 Republican House members, including the Michigan delegation that most recently came out in support of him. Meanwhile, DeSantis has pulled in five endorsements from sitting congress members, including staunch conservative Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Chip Roy (R-TX). 

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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) mocked the Department of Justice on Monday after it announced eight charges against an American-Israeli energy expert.

The DOJ announced eight charges against Israeli professor Gal Luft, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen and co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, on Monday. Luft is on the run from federal prosecutors, who he says are targeting him because of information he has on the Biden family’s dealings in China.

The DOJ has charged Luft with eight crimes, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent, trafficking in arms, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, and making false statements to federal agents. Luft denied the charges in a video statement last week published by the New York Post. The Post identified Luft as a “missing witness” in House Republicans’ investigation into the Biden family.

Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is leading a congressional investigation into the Biden family’s overseas business dealings and has already spoken about what he says is a massive money laundering operation that the Bidens erected to take in potentially tens of millions of dollars in corrupt dealings in China, Romania, and Ukraine. In an appearance on Fox News on Monday evening, Comer appeared to take Luft’s accusations of corruption at the DOJ seriously.

“The timing is always coincidental according to the Democrats at the Department of Justice,” Comer said, referring to the timing of the Luft charges being announced after Luft’s video.

“Here’s what I know about Gal Luft: he was getting paid, like the Bidens, from CEFC. We want to speak with everyone that we can find who was also on the payroll of CEFC like the Bidens,” Comer said. “And anyone who says we shouldn’t take Gal Luft’s allegations seriously discounts the fact that the Bidens wanted to share office space with CEFC, even going so far as to say that Hunter wanted to make an extra set of keys for both Joe Biden, Jill Biden, and the president’s brother, Jim Biden.”

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Luft says he came forward to the DOJ and FBI in 2019 and met with a team of six people, two from the DOJ and four from the FBI, in Brussels. The meeting took place weeks before President Joe Biden announced his run for the White House, and Luft said he was acting as a concerned citizen worried about corruption within the Biden family. Luft said he is now being targeted to be kept from telling what he knows to congressional investigators.

“Obviously, they were concerned about something he had to say. There’s some level of credibility there,” Comer said, remarking on the fact that the DOJ sent six officials and FBI agents to interview Luft in 2019.

“It’s just amazing that the Department of Justice moves so quickly against some people,” Comer said.

Gal Luft was paid by CEFC, the CCP-linked energy company.

The Bidens partnered with CEFC. Joe & Hunter planned to have office space. Bank records show CEFC wired millions to the Bidens.

Luft supposedly shared info with the FBI on the Bidens & CEFC.

I will request this record. pic.twitter.com/Ma6pN0k9LV

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) July 11, 2023