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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 15:52:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 15:56:15 GMT
Ignoring Trump, Chaffetz seeks charges related to Clinton emails 02/17/17 10:14 AM By Steve Benen On Nov. 9, literally the day after the election, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said his pre-election plans had not changed: he remained focused on Hillary Clinton and her email server management. In December, he said it again. In January, he said it again.
Yesterday, as the Associated Press reported, the Republican congressman took the next ridiculous step. The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who has refused Democratic requests to investigate possible conflicts of interest involving President Donald Trump, is seeking criminal charges against a former State Department employee who helped set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday asking him to convene a grand jury or charge Bryan Pagliano, the computer specialist who helped establish Clinton’s server while she was secretary of state. So let me get this straight. There’s evidence that Russia launched an illegal espionage operation to help put Donald Trump in the Oval Office. There’s evidence that Team Trump was in communications with officials in Vladimir Putin’s government at the time. There’s evidence that leading members of Team Trump lied about these contacts. There’s evidence that the communications continued during the presidential transition process, which Trump administration officials lied about, and which led to the White House National Security Advisor resigning.
There’s evidence that this entire scandal, possibly the most serious since Watergate, is part of an ongoing U.S. counter-espionage investigation.
It’s against this backdrop that Jason Chaffetz, just yesterday, contacted the Justice Department seeking criminal charges related to … wait for it … Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a deeply stupid nightmare?
Political scientist Norm Ornstein said this week, “When the history of this dark period is written, Jason Chaffetz will go down as one of the real villains.” That’s hardly an unreasonable assessment under the circumstances.
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie added yesterday, “Americans believe their system runs on checks and balances, but those checks require the will to act. Without that, they’re dead letters. And to that point, it’s unclear if the GOP majority will ever take up its responsibilities…. [Republicans] have embraced an unqualified, unstable authoritarian with contempt for the basic values and norms of American democracy. They have facilitated the potential subversion of our government by foreign forces and empowered a dangerous ideology of racial and religious exclusion. However this ends, whatever happens with Trump and his movement, the GOP will bear the brunt of the blame.”
It’s worth watching to see if this wall of Republican opposition to accountability starts to crack. Chaffetz, obviously, is focusing his attention elsewhere, but Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member on the Oversight Committee, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last night that an unnamed House Republican is on board with a proposal to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Russia scandal, and there have been related grumblings in the Senate.
GOP leaders, however, remain staunchly opposed to such an investigation.
Away from Capitol Hill, meanwhile, Democrats are pushing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a close Trump ally and former member of the president’s campaign team, to recuse himself from the process. A New York Times editorial added today that the need for a special prosecutor is obvious.
Watch this space.
Postscript: The estimable Jamison Foser reminded me this weekend that, in Bill Clinton’s second term, House Republicans actually launched an investigation into the president’s cat, Socks. That’s true. The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman noted the House Oversight Committee – the same panel Chaffetz now leads – once “demanded to know whether taxpayer resources were being used to respond to children’s letters to the president’s cat.”
Not to put too fine a point on this, but if the committee can look into Socks, it can show some interest in Donald Trump’s Russia scandal.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 15:57:40 GMT
If nothing else, read the postscript to this article...LOL...You just can't make stuff this up.
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Post by NatureLover on Feb 17, 2017 16:04:26 GMT
Socks Gate. Good Lord I forgot about that. Meanwhile Malania Trump lives in a golden tower in Manhattan on our dime. "No, New York is where I'd rather stay! I get allergic near my husband's prey!"
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Post by doordie50 on Feb 17, 2017 16:07:45 GMT
In a state of suspending of disbelief
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 16:17:17 GMT
And now our tax $$$ going to pay for his "campaign rally" in Florida tomorrow. I'm sure the first of many he needs to soothe his ego like a pacifier soothes a baby.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 19:29:58 GMT
Andy Borowitz· Hey Donald J. Trump a little fact checking: you did not "inherit a mess." Barack Obama inherited a mess. You inherited $100 million from your dad.
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Post by yogamama007 on Feb 17, 2017 19:57:21 GMT
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Post by birdgal on Feb 17, 2017 20:25:04 GMT
It's been said if you keep on doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result you're, well, insane.
This oaf showed the American people over and over again what kind of a pervert, oops, I meant to say person he is. Now that he's in the WH he's not any different. Did anybody honestly expect a different result?
Linda, it's so true. He makes me tired. Anne, with this oaf I think I've had enough stupid to last a lifetime and beyond. Nature Lover, did she really say that? Pam, I feel your pain, my Friend.
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Post by yogamama007 on Feb 17, 2017 20:44:55 GMT
Patty-bird, if she didn't say that she should......
Geezzzzzzz what a roll model for young women.....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 21:34:24 GMT
So, Jared Kushner's family wants to buy the Miami Marlins....The owner of Miami Marlins is getting the the French Ambassadorship from Trump .....What's wrong with this scenerio besides a gazzillion things!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 21:52:40 GMT
Washington Post... On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
On Saturday, Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.”
Meanwhile, New York police will keep watch outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, the chosen home of first lady Melania Trump and son Barron. And the tiny township of Bedminster, N.J., is preparing for the daunting prospect that the local Trump golf course will serve as a sort of northern White House for as many as 10 weekends a year.
Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of America’s new first family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents — a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term.
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