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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is asking its Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), to help investigate “grave conflicts of interest” surrounding Trump.

Connolly made the request to Comer in a letter Tuesday that repeatedly invokes the presidential ethics reforms that Comer pushed for under the previous president, Democrat Joe Biden. The letter was shared exclusively with The Washington Post. Comer previously led an impeachment investigation into Biden and his family that sputtered out last year amid a lack of evidence.

“Ethical governance is not a partisan goal — it is a shared responsibility,” Connolly wrote to Comer. “I urge you to demonstrate the Committee’s commitment to ethical governance and to ensure that no administration, no matter how powerful, is above the law.”

Connolly pointed to a few examples of what he said were conflicts of interest in the new administration that are “proliferating wildly.” The examples included the multiple cryptocurrency ventures that bear Trump’s name, including the lucrative token that he launched three days before taking office.

Trump seemed to shrug off concerns about the coin during a news conference Tuesday at the White House. Asked if he would continue selling products that personally enrich him as president, Trump said he did not “know much about [the coin] other than I launched it” and that he heard it was “very successful.”

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