Posted on 06/19/2019 8:02:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump said House Democrats are handing out subpoenas "like they're cookies" in a Fox News interview Wednesday night.
The comment came in a wide-ranging interview during which he railed against the investigations into his administration and the media's treatment of his campaign.
Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "hands out subpoenas like they’re cookies."
Democratic leaders have issued a series of subpoenas to compel the administration to release disputed documents and witness testimony, an effort the White House has fought. As speaker of the House Pelosi does not need to approve subpoenas requests issued by committees.
The president had ridiculed Democrats earlier in the day for calling his former communications director Hope Hicks in to testify behind a closed-door House Judiciary Committee meeting, saying they were putting her "through hell."
Hicks is seen as a key witness in the investigation into potential obstruction of justice. She was mentioned 180 times in special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Trump on Wednesday also repeated his claims that the Mueller report exonerated him of any wrongdoing. Mueller has said only that he found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and would not make a determination on obstruction of justice because a sitting president cannot be indicted.
During his Fox News interview Trump repeatedly mentioned the size and energy of his reelection launch rally in Orlando the night before, calling it a "tailgate party of the country."
He also said that he's not concerned about any of the 24 Democrats running in the presidential primary for a chance to beat him in 2020.
"I look at some of them, I don’t see George Washington, I don't see Churchill, I don’t see anybody in particular that I worry about," Trump said.
....and you are doing nothing to stop them or expose them. No sympathy. Either declassify or stop whining because I'm to the point of not giving a sh!t anymore to someone that has the ability to stop this and doesn't do anything to stop it.
I agree. And if the unthinkable happens next November, it will be swept away.
He also said Paul Ryan would not send out any when requested by the committees. He truly was a RINO extraordinaire.
Scorched earth
It’s politico weaponization of these committee’s and their leadership against a sitting President and his administration. Clearly an abuse of power.
3+ years into a coup attempt and he hasn't even gotten it stopped.
Exactly ZERO arrests.
Exactly ZERO military tribunals.
Hell Brennan still has his security clearance.
Everytime Trump tweets his complaints the whinier and weaker he seems.
Ecc 8:11
When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
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