Posted on 05/20/2020 10:44:34 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Tensions are flaring in the Senate as Republicans prepare to ramp up their investigations into Obama-era officials.
Amid public and private pressure from President Trump, GOP senators are increasingly embracing calls to use their congressional power to investigate some of Trump’s biggest grievances stemming from the Obama administration, including the origins of the Russia investigation, the court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Hunter Biden.
Democrats argue Republicans are using their committee gavels to probe Trump’s political enemies, an effort they say is designed to hunt for political fodder against former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, while inadvertently spreading Russian misinformation.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) railed against Republicans, saying they were chasing a “wild conspiracy theory.”
“Senate Republicans are diving head-first into the muck to smear the family — the family — of the president’s political opponent. It is such a gross misuse of the power of the majority,” Schumer added.
Those frustrations are poised to come to a head as two committee chairmen — Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — have vowed to hold votes on subpoenas as part of their investigations over the objections of Democrats.
Graham is asking for the Judiciary Committee to vote to give him broad subpoena authority to call dozens of officials to testify, either in depositions or hearings, as part of his investigation into the FISA court and “Crossfire Hurricane,” the name of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling and the 2016 Trump campaign.
“We’re going to investigate the investigators, and try to find out how Crossfire Hurricane got off the rails,” Graham said.
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Another investigation is "ramping up".
'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me multiple times and these do-nothings should be driven from office'.
What if it lasts 3 years and has a special prosecutor? What if they spend $40 million investigating him?
Would THAT be worse?
lol
Fake investigations designed to make the GOP look like they’re doing something prior to the fall elections.
As the liberals say, “If you’ve nothing to hide, why do you care?”.
Ah, the former hunter does not enjoy becoming the prey?
The media has been neutered Schumer, and now the truth will slowly come out - right before an election.
Do you hear that, Chuck? It is the sound of inevitability.
CWII may start with frustrated vigilantes. The question is which side of the political fence will they be on?
This speaks to why I like trump. He’s not a republican. He just joined because that was the only way he could win.
He fights like democrats do and it’s driving them nuts. :)
Remember all those tensions when Dems rammed their fake impeachment through? Threatened to do it again? Promised they’d do it again?
Remember all that handwringing by the hill about TENSIONS.
Yeah... somebody’s tense...
WHAT Obama probes????
What was the FIRST one?
Odd, didn't schumer promote the Mueller investigation and impeachment hoax/conspiracy?
TERRIBLE writing. What a ham-fisted, grammar-school mixed metaphor. "Tensions" don't "flare", "tempers" do. And why? Because "temper" is a metaphor, comparing a person's angry disposition to a piece of metal being heated red-hot, during the process of increasing its hardness or "temper." If there is any oil on the metal, it can flare up when the metal is heated. Hence, "tempers flare". Not "tensions flare." Good grief, where did these people matriculate from?
Basically, I can translate this article as "Senate Republicans are getting too close for Demonrat comfort, to finding out what the Obamites did in attempting a coup against a Constitutionally-elected President."
Donald Trump is a master of timing. Right before election, the democrat crimes will be exposed. If this was done last year, voters would forget by Nov 3rd.
Ok to do to Trump but not the Obama crowd.
I think CW II was declared by Obama over 10 years ago and the Republicans haven’t figured it out yet.
Flak is always heaviest over the target.
Thou protest too much, Schumer. Seems to me I have heard you whine about Kushner a time or two.
WHAT Obama probes????
What was the FIRST one?
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Archie?
Too F’ing bad Dems. Bend over and take it!
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