Posted on 01/12/2018 10:39:46 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) on Thursday denied that she ever said she was "pressured" to release private testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.
Feinstein, who is the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the transcript without consulting Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and said Wednesday that she was "pressured" to do so. On Thursday, however, she said she was not pressured and denied ever having said that.
"I made no statement to that effect," Feinstein said about being pressured. BuzzFeed reporter Emma Loop pressed the senator further, saying that there is a recording of her saying just that.
"I don't believe there are [recordings]," Feinstein told Loop. "I don't believe I said that."
Emma Loop ✔ @LoopEmma Just asked Feinstein about her comment yesterday about being "pressured" to release the Simpson transcript.
"I made no statement to that effect," she said.
Me: but there are recordings of you saying you felt pressured
"I don't believe there are. I don't believe I said that."
12:28 PM - Jan 11, 2018 956 956 Replies 3,115 3,115 Retweets 6,537 6,537 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Loop added that CNN and the Daily Beast reported Feinstein’s comments, and her office admitted as much by saying she "misspoke."
Feinstein apologized to Grassley for releasing the transcript and said she intended to talk to him but was pressured not to.
"I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me," she told reporters. "I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it."
Manu Raju ✔ @mkraju FEINSTEIN says she’s sorry to Grassley for not giving him a headsup about the release of the Fusion GPS transcript. “I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me,” she told us. “I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.”
3:12 PM - Jan 10, 2018 481 481 Replies 532 532 Retweets 929 929 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy She also said she "had a bad cold" that may have "slowed down" her thinking. It is still unclear by whom she felt pressured or why she is denying something she said that was widely reported.
You were pressured to release it voluntarily, because of a cold...
Worse liar than HRC!
She is becoming the Senate’s version of Nancy Pelosi: Senile and stupid......................
and Trump is the unstable one
Nope.
hahahahahahaha!!!
After being told there’s recordings of her saying that...she still declares she didn’t.
Thee people are so crooked & disordered it’s a wonder they can find the bathroom on their own.
So to be clear, she either did or did not say she was pressured. Maybe she should get her brain checked out.
Clearly they cannot.
She sabotaged the investigation !! Now witnesses know what Steele testified. That violates Senate rules and I want her sanctioned and removed from that committee but McConnell is an anti Trump scum bag and will do absolutely nothing. God,heal us from these sicking people.
When you deny that you said something, and the reporter tells you there are videos of you saying it just two days beforehand, you are either senile or stupid or both..............
We already know Feinstein is a liar. What I want to know now is who pressured her to release the transcript.
What BS. The Rats released this so the others would have a script if called to testify. Basically to get thier stories straight and of course avoid any perjury trap. Fienstein was the one picked because she was most likely get away with it because of gender, age and party. And it is brazen obstruction but hey that’s ok if you’re a Rat.
Tap dancing!
She meant sinus pressure due to her cold.
Otherwise, she was pressured to deny she was pressured to release the transcript.
-PJ
The old gray mare ain’t what she used to be. And she wasn’t much to begin with.
The ‘Blum’ is off the rose ,, the sheen that remains is fake..
Time for DiChiFi to go.. enough slop has been poured into hers and hubby’s bucket,, enough gubamint contracts&properties have been diverted to her hubby’s business connections.
Time for her to move to her mansion on Chocolate Mountain and just fade away.
Senile and stupid are just two possibilities. I’d propose a third — She’s very bad at lying.
She’s getting really addled brained.
The Mexicans are going to replace her with one of their own.
Dumb Cunning Runt.
Dyslexic.
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