Posted on 06/23/2017 11:40:29 AM PDT by Rockitz
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) blasted Democrats on Thursday — particularly Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — for fueling media hysteria, knowing full well President Trump was not under investigation for collusion with Russia.
In a statement delivered on the Senate floor, Grassley said that in March, former FBI Director James Comey had told him, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and the group of Senate and House members known as the “Gang of Eight” that the president was not under investigation.
But Schumer, who is part of the Gang of Eight, continued to tell the media Trump was under investigation, Grassley said.
“That helped feed the media hysteria,” he said. “The Minority Leader even tried to say that the Senate shouldn’t vote on the Supreme Court nomination because the president was under investigation. And the whole time, he knew it wasn’t true.”
In once instance, Schumer told reporters on March 21, “There is a cloud now hanging over the head of the president, and while that’s happening, to have a lifetime appointment made by this president seems very unseemly and there ought to be a delay.”
Grassley said it was not until months later that it came to light, on May 12, when Trump revealed in a letter firing Comey that the FBI director had told him three times he was not under investigation.
Grassley also said he had asked Comey to come out and tell the public Trump was not under investigation, but he had refused to do so over a hypothetical situation where he might have to correct the record.
“That concern was merely hypothetical — pure speculation,” he said. “In the unlikely event it came to pass, the public should know if the FBI is pursuing a criminal investigation against the president.”
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Investigate Schemer NOW!
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Typical.
Oops auto correct became auto mistake
Schumer.
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley: Chuck Schumer Knew Trump Wasn’t Under Investigation but Said He Was Anyway
No. no. You have, albeit inadvertently, stumbled into the truth - Schmuck Schemer. Do a keyword search and you’ll see - “schmuckschemer”.
Autocorrect got it right!!
Chuck, are you calling Chuck a liar? I’m pretty sure that’s the size of it, even if it’s only an oblique accusation.
This is senator on senator crime; or, Chuck on Chuck.
Don’t stop there, Chuck! Which one? Don’t care.
“There is a cloud now hanging over the head of the president, and while that’s happening, to have a lifetime appointment made by this president seems very unseemly and there ought to be a delay.”
Chuckie never said Trump was under investigation by the FBI. When will the right quit falling for these rhetorical traps? Did anyone ever directly ask Chuckie if Trump was being investigated by the FBI? Did Chuckie ever give an unequivocal answer that stated, “Yes Trump is the subject of active FBI investigation”? Chuckie is too smart to simply lie, give him some credit. He is smart and devious.
He said a cloud, not an investigation.
Between the double talk of the politicians,and media inaccuracies, and the corruption of the deep state we are adrift.
They’re doing it again right now. Within days of exposing His Comeyness’s lie by omission, the press and Democrats started lying about Trump being investigated for obstruction of justice. And just like his chum, Muley isn’t correcting the record.
That’s why I posted this. Senators are consistently civil to one another. Grassley may have grown a pair in recent days.
think the MSM heard him ?
I doubt the senate will be censoring or stripping committee memberships from any dems, tho. They don't have the intestinal fortitude to actually do something other than speechify.
Why didn’t any Republicans who knew better call him on until now?
Spicer, Manafort, Tillerson, and Trump have to adopt a street fighter mentality.
Grassley, et al, didn’t say anything before, because they are afraid of Democrats and the media. They had to wait until it was clear that there was no referendum against Trump, and that didn’t happen until Tuesday when the votes for GA-6 were counted. Now it’s safe for them.
Why didn’t Grassley say something BEFORE today? He knew Schumer has been lying for 3 months.
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