Posted on 02/03/2017 2:41:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON ― The possibility of someone lying to Congress used to be frowned upon by Republicans. How can anyone forget the chairmen of two committees referring perjury charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the FBI over her clashing email explanations?
But that was before Donald Trump won the presidency, and before the alt-fact era.
Now two of Trumps nominees who arguably lied to Congress are not facing perjury referrals but are on the verge of being confirmed to lead the nations departments of the Treasury and Health and Human Services.
To recap: Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin told senators in his confirmation hearing that his bank, OneWest, did not use robo-signing, let alone use it to foreclose on massive numbers of mortgages. That was not true. The bank robo-signed hundreds and hundreds of foreclosures, including wrongful cases that were eventually reversed in court, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The banks robo-signing was widely reported and the subject of court actions and depositions. Even years after signing a consent decree with federal regulators, there appear to have been continued problems, according to a memo leaked from the California attorney generals office.
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who invested in companies that stood to benefit from his legislation, told senators on two committees considering his HHS nomination that he did not get any sweetheart deals when he invested between $50,000 and $100,000 in the Australian firm Innate Immunotherapeutics. Asked if he got a lower rate than what was available to the public, he told Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) the rates were available to every single individual that was an investor at the time. He told Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), It was the same price that everybody paid for the private placement offering. Both statements are not true,
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HuffPoop? Is that still a thing?
Should you believe ANYTHING from this discredited source which put Trump’s campaign news in its entertainment section? NEVER!
Both of these are purposely trying to misunderstand the situation as to make it appear they are lying. What is not mentioned in the one, is that the bank was bought from the government and misdeeds were either in the past or not robo-foreclosing. the second is a special deal that anyone holding the investment of a size and bought when he did could get. But at the time it was offered it was more owned buy Australians than Americans. They did not give him a deal because of who he was, they did not even know he was an investor.
The democrats know this. They are just trying to misrepresent the stories so the HufPo could broadcast the misrepresentation further and longer.
It means “false accusations, innuendo, rumors and lies” that have been proven to be false are “arguable”. It doesn’t make sense, but that’s all they have left in their bag of tricks.
What I find most insulting is that the current crop of left-wing lunatic standard bearers (Bath House Barry, Hillary Clinton, San Fran Nan, Harry “the mob beat the crap out of me” Reid, John F’ing Kerry, Eric “just us” Holder, Dan “Fake but Accurate” Rather, et al) have been proven to be treasonous corrupt liars, guiltless thieves, political prostitutes, money-grubbing whores, baby killers, money launderers, and every other sort of criminal) but according to the news media, none of them did what they (MSM) reported that they did) and none of it is arguable.
F*ck me! Guess I’ll just have to go back to work, pay my bills and taxes, and keep my mouth shut. ‘Cause what me know?
It doesn’t take much complexity of words to mislead congress. The fairly simple and factual world evades their scope of operations.
That is really what pisses them off; I bet, they never expected that we would be joining them.
Well at least neither one is president. We know how that goes.
It is apparent to me that Elena Kagan misled the Senate on her 2A position, but she was confirmed and is now a sitting Justice.
We never hear anyone complain about that.
Watching LIB morons’ heads “implode” (because their brains have shrunken to the size of 1 atom) is a sight to behold. WINNING!!! MAGA!!!
Enough said right there.
Did you know that Obama’s mother worked for Peter Geithner, Timmy’s daddy in third world crap holes doing micro loans?
Small world, huh?
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if in a hearing, when confronted with this they would actually say, “ what difference, at this point, dies it make?!”
I would absolutely love it!!!
HuffPost? Guaranteed Bullshiit.
Thanks for the explanation.
(Just call it BARFINGTON POST.)
I like it! The name may stick!
(Just call it BARFINGTON POST.)
I like it! The name may stick!
As compared to the 2 dozen+ Obama nominees who misled congress before AND AFTER being confirmed???
Hillary Clinton misled everyone and Huffpo thought it was great.
whoa...
Not bad but I think I’ll stick with Huffpoop. It just describes it better in my mind somehow but Barfington Post is good too.
Senate debate on CSPAN now...
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