House Democrats scooping up staff, lawyers to power Trump investigations

CNN ^ | December 28, 2018 | Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju

[lowbridge]

A recent committee job posting reviewed by CNN asked for legislative counsels with a variety of expertise: "criminal law, immigration law, constitutional law, intellectual property law, commercial and administrative law (including antitrust and bankruptcy), or oversight work."

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee needs lawyers, too, posting jobs for "executive branch investigative counsel."

The advertisements give a window into the Democratic recruiting that's ramped up ahead of the party gaining subpoena power for the first time in eight years when it takes over the House in January.

While Democrats publicly talk up their interest in focusing on legislative priorities like health care and voting rights -- not to mention ending the ongoing partial government shutdown -- they are quietly preparing for what will likely be the largest congressional investigation of a sitting president in recent memory. Party leaders and committee chairs have spent months ironing out potential targets, from President Donald Trump's taxes and business dealings to the conduct of current and former Cabinet members.

To handle all this investigative work, House Democrats are expected to double the number of their staffers. Though they can't officially hire anyone until the new Congress is seated, plans are well underway, with House members saying that candidates -- especially those with specific investigative skills, from money laundering to contracting -- are coming from all directions.

[Gahanna Bob]

I hope it backfires on the Dems.

[pepsionice]

Just doing their ‘trick’ to get Trump’s tax returns, has a humorous attachment hooked up to it. This will be one of the more interesting episodes to watch.

[af_vet_1981]

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - it's a lawyer joke The argument of this remark as in fact being favorable to lawyers is a marvel of sophistry, twisting of the meaning of words in unfamiliar source, disregard of the evident intent of the original author and ad hominem attack. Whoever first came up with this interpretation surely must have been a lawyer.

[Dacula]

Who and how are they paying for the witch hunt?

[Liz]

Is it Hillary's turn, yet? (smirk)

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Google-eyed Democrat Adam Schiff just discovered he has b***s......says he's looking into Donald's connection to the Saudis.
But stupid Schiff didint check----the money-hungry Clintons got to the Saudis and other Arabs first......and cashed in bigtime.
Here's the Clintons criminal MO: Secy of State Hillary using the Clinton Foundation to manipulate US foreign policy for donations.

Arab nations loom large.

LEGEND-—Donation to Clinton Foundation/Global Initiative (CGI)-—followed by State Dept favor granted in return.

<><> Prince of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of Abu Dhabi. <$5,000,000 to the Clintons got Access to HRC at State Dept and a $500,000 environmental speech by Bill Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC was meeting in Washington with Shaikh Abdullah.

<><> Algeria <$500,000 to the Clintons got State Dept clearance for U.S. arms sales to Algeria. Deal included biological and chemical agents.

<><>Australia, Commonwealth of <$75,000,000 to the Clintons got Strong State Dept. for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which stands to be a boon for Australian multinational firms.

<><>Bahrain, Kingdom of <$250,000 to the Clintons got Muted criticism by State of Bahrain’s abysmal human rights practices.

<><>Boeing Corp.<$900,000 to the Clintons got State Dept. clearance for $29 billion arms U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia, including Boeing’s F-15 fighter.

<><> Sultanate Brunei Darussalam <$5,000,000 to the Clintons got State Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Brunei.

<><>Cameroon, Republic of <$100,000 to the Clintons got Influence buying by the Cameroon government with the Clinton State Department.

<><>Canada $500,000 donation to the Clintons got State Dept support for Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline, eventually vetoed by Barack Obama (guess his cut wasnt big enough).

<><> Chagoury Group <$5,000,000 in cash and a $1,000,000,000 pledge to the Clintons got HRC delayed designating Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization because of Chagoury Group’s investments and operations in Nigeria. Chagoury Group received the “Sustainable Development Award” from the CGI. Chagooury helped the family of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha hide his wealth stolen from Nigeria’s oil revenues.

<><> Confederation of Indian Industry <$1,000,000 to the Clintons got Access for Indian businesses to U.S. government officials.

[BenLurkin]

The Uniparty hates America.

[Liz]

I "hope" Democrat Schiff's investigations will focus on the Saudis sucking-up to the Clintons:

Hillary and Saudi King Abdullah circa 2012.

The Saudis placed multi-million dollar bets on 2016 Hillary to win. They showered the Clintons with petrodollars.

ITEM <><> Prince of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of Abu Dhabi's $5,000,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation's Global Initiative. got them (A) access to HRC at State Dept, and, (B) a $500,000 environmental speech by Bill Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC was meeting in Washington with UAR's Shaikh Abdullah.

ITEM<><>EXCLUSIVE: Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million [VIDEO]

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.

ITEM <><> As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole. “These regimes are buying access. You’ve got the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension,” Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.

ITEM <><> Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received upwards of $85 million in donations from five Persian Gulf states and their monarchs, according to the foundation’s website. Activist groups have charged the five states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — committed numerous human rights abuses.

ITEM <><>the Saudis helped stage Hillary's election night "victory"---giving her a huge expensive flat screen TV supposedly to air her crashing through a symbolic 500,000 dollar glass ceiling. (This from a kingdom where women are not allowed to drive).

ITEM <><> Several Persian Gulf states contributed millions to the Clinton presidential library in Arkansas.

ITEM<><> Saudi Arabia Funded 20% Of Hillary's Presidential Campaign, / Zerohedge ^ | Jun 14, 2016| Tyler Durden / FR Posted by xzins

(NOTE: It is illegal in the United States for foreign countries to influence the outcome of elections by funding candidates. That appears not to have stopped the Saudis, however.)

“Saudi Arabia provided with full enthusiasm 20 percent of the cost of Hillary Clinton’s election"......the report quoted Saudi Prince Mohammed as having said. According to the US Federal Election commission, over the past two years Clinton has raised a little more than $211.8 million. 20% of this sum is $42.4 million. The Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday that the senior royal was due to fly to Washington where he will meet Obama admin officials to discuss US-Saudi ties. --SNIP--

ITEM<><> Links between Saudi Arabia and the Clinton family, including with Hillary’s campaign, are well reported. In 2008, it was revealed that the Gulf kingdom had donated between $10m and $25m to the Clinton Foundation, a charity set up by Hillary’s husband and former US President Bill Clinton.

ITEM<><> Last year the Centre for Studies and Media Affairs at the Saudi Royal Court paid public relations firm the Podesta Group $200,000 for a month- long project to provide “public relations services”. The Podesta Group was founded in 1988 by brothers John and Tony Podesta. John Podesta is the chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Saudi Royals greet then-Secy Hillary (she checks to make sure she's on-camera). The suck-up begins.

[jimfree]

Will they be too busy to legislate?

[Liz]

We've heard a lot about Democrats shady "vote harvesting" MO. This looks an awful lot like "crime harvesting".....
combing the presidency to find a crime.....or maybe "invent crimes" as needed....ala Mueller.

A Democrat House Oversight and Govt Reform Committee jobs posting reviewed by CNN looks for legislative counsels with various expertise:
criminal law,
immigration law,
constitutional law,
intellectual property law,
commercial and administrative law
including antitrust and bankruptcy,
oversight work,
lawyers for "executive branch investigative counsel."

[tired&retired]

No budget... No staff salaries.

[tired&retired]

While the members of Congress get paid without a budget, their staff does not.

Trump can delay, delay, delay until he gets the full wall $$$$.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Trump needs to tweet daily updates on how much public money is being spent on lawyers. The average American loathes and detests lawyers.

[Karoo]

Newt said on TV around time of mid-term elections, that the Chairman of Ways and Means can get tax returns on any American. Wonder if the Dims know this.

[Retvet]

Tyrannical Democratic crime syndicate knows they are going against the peoples desires, that is hairdressing for gun control.

[marajade]

Majority gets more staff.

[palmer]

They are fully aware

“Every president since Gerald Ford has voluntarily done this,” likely incoming Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., told reporters in Massachusetts on Wednesday. According to the law, the panel chairman “has the ability to ask for the returns, and I assume there would be a court case that would go for a period of time,” he said. “Proportionality is very important,” Neal stressed, and said he would count on the tax attorneys and economists at the Joint Committee on Taxation to keep the process proper.

His colleague Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., who recently published an entire timeline of unsuccessful demands for the tax returns through House and Senate floor action, told The Hill on Thursday that the examination will be an “academic, rational review” and that there would be “no leakage.” Decisions on whether to make part or all of the returns public would come later.

https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2018/11/house-democrats-map-out-plan-getting-trumps-tax-returns/152726/

[fella]

Trump should just order the release of the FBI files of all these swamp critters to the press.

[dsrtsage]

“Just doing their ‘trick’ to get Trump’s tax returns”

I hereby make a prediction.

To great noise and fanfare nazi pelosi will obtain the tax returns and have a huge press conference where she waves them in front of the cameras.

Then, after her minions scan every single page and discover that they are air tight, and he contributes more to charity than the entire democratic congress combined, the tax returns will quietly disappear to whatever the next “crisis” might be, and nobody on planet earth will ever see them.

[jazzlite]

Here is a prayer of hope and promise for President Trump in this time of relentless and unfounded hatred and envy..Pray for his enemies for they know not what they are doing to this nation and it’s people.

Jeremiah:20-21 “I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but will not overcome you, for I am with you, to rescue you and save you, declares the Lord. I will save you from the hands of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the cruel.” Thankfully, God knows how to surround His people with a wall which does not require the permission of the American left.