Posted on 05/09/2017 5:39:34 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Tuesday demanded “immediate emergency hearings” over President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
“Congress needs to have immediate emergency hearings to obtain testimony directly from Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions, the deputy attorney general and FBI Director Comey,” Cummings said in a statement.
“The White House was already covering up for [former national security adviser] Michael Flynn by refusing to provide a single document to Congress, and now the President fired the one independent person who was doing the most to investigate President Trump and his [2016] campaign over allegations of coordination with Russia.”
Cummings added that Sessions’s involvement in Comey’s ouster is “mindboggling,” noting that Sessions stated that he would recuse himself from investigations into any ties between Trump and Russia. “There is now a crisis of confidence at the Justice Department, and President Trump is not being held accountable because House Republicans refuse to work with us to do our job,” the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee added.
The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that Trump had fired Comey following recommendations from Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton
's handling of classified emails.
“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to lead the bureau,” he wrote in a letter to Comey dated Tuesday.
“It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.”
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Let the Flop Sweat Flow.
HA-HA!!!
“mindboggling”
In this case of this mental midget, this is a very low standard.
He must be hiding something that comey is protecting
People in hell want ice water...
Twitter is loaded with leftists going crazy over this.
To me, that says, ‘you fired our guy!’
Voters are sick of partisan garbage over the past 25 years. That resulted in the election of a non-politician business man to remove the grid lock.
Now the Dems are 100% totally unhinged partisan irrational group. It is also obvious that the MSM has no credibility at all. This is so obvious to everyone.
Mainstream voters are still sick of partisan politics and the Dems have cranked that up 10X. How will this move voters and will more Trump like candidates emerge?
The State Department needs to confiscate Hillary’s passport so that she doesn’t take a sudden trip to a country that has no extradition treaty with the U.S.
Bingo.
Trump just gave him more rope, and now he has called it in.
BINGO!
Give the man a cigar. The light of truth can come crashing down on Hillary, and in a hurry.
noting that Sessions stated that he would recuse himself from investigations into any ties between Trump and Russia
= = =
He said that?
I can’t recall.
How about no. And cram it Cummings.
We can only hope that this Cummings jack@ss is on the record somewhere calling for Comey’s firing. LOL.
TWINS!!!
Whatever occurs, one side cheers and the other side complains. The politisization of the Bureau beginning of the end for them.
If appointed Clarke would be the first Black FBI Director.
Someone got a pin? Cummings would pop.
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