Posted on 11/18/2019 5:24:33 PM PST by Magnatron
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose stock has risen in conservative circles since he became a close ally of President Trump, has come under fire in recent weeks from right-wing media personalities who do not think he has done enough to probe supposed Democratic corruption.
The right-wing media personalities — including heavyweights such as Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, and others — have suggested Graham is failing the President by not using his power as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the origins of the Russia probe and, most recently, the impeachment inquiry.
Graham in May promised that the Senate Judiciary Committee — which is responsible for oversight of the Justice Department, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation — would "look long and hard" into how the investigation into the Trump campaign's interactions with Russia during the 2016 presidential election started. He then repeated that it was necessary to probe the origins of the Russia investigation in interviews with the media.
But such hearings have not materialized. In recent weeks, the Ukraine scandal has put conspiracy theories related to the origins of the Russia probe back in the spotlight.
Right-wing media personalities, in addition to Trump himself, have recently resurfaced a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, and not Russia, hacked the Democratic National Committee's emails in 2016. The theory is popular in pro-Trump circles because it lets Russia off the hook for election interference, and suggests Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe was unnecessary and had corrupt origins.
The Justice Department has opened up a probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
But Graham is now facing scrutiny for not delivering on his word.
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What “right wing” media?
CNN is crying huge crocodile tears for Linda.
LMAO.
Lindsey Graham, the man who called Hillary Clinton a national treasure?
It is my understanding that the senate can only issue subpoenas with the approval of the senate minority leader.
(The minority leader is a Dem)
What kind of hearings can you have if you can’t subpoena anyone?
I heard this today from Joe diGenova.
I’m still waiting for Grassley’s investigation into the Kavanaugh conspiracy. Although he’s not the judiciary chairman,Linda should have picked up the ball.
I seem to remember numerous criminal referrals in the Kavanaugh case. It appears I didn’t notice anyone getting charged even though sternly worded letters were sent.
Each committee has its own rules. Judiciary needs the consent of the ranking Dim to issue a subpoena. Some, such as Homeland Security, do not.
Yeah. Justice never gets served. These traitors have been subverting and breaking the law forever and getting away with it. The problem is that they would be indicted in D.C. and the jurors would let them go. But I say make their lives difficult anyway.
Looks like blood in the middle of the floor?
Looks like Yavanovich to me.
Little Linda Grahamnesty is, as was Gowdy, all talk and absolutely No Action. Sound and Fury signifying nothing.
Or, as our president has so many times described politicians on our side who are supposed to be on the side of the American people, ALL TALK NO ACTION.
That photo looks like the Ukrainians played a joke on McCain.
“Yuri - do picture where we hang traitor from light. Make sure you get the bloody carpet in the photograph.”
Some, such as Homeland Security, do not.
Apparently, a CIA spy conducting a coup inside the White House with the assistance of a U. S. Army officer does not qualify as an issue “Homeland Security” would like to gather facts on.
Oliver Darcy.
/eyeroll
Gowdy, like Grahamnesty was elected from SC.
SC only elects Cheap Labor Express stooges.
Does anyone really believe Flimsey wants to make America great when he has spent his career trying to turn it into North Mexico?
Does anyone believe that McCain’s mini-me didn’t know about the dossier dissemination?
hmmmm..........
Your last sentence is pertinent. There is no way that McCain toe-sucker Graham didn’t know what McCain was up to regarding the dissemination of the Trump Smear document The Swamp calls the dossier.
Guaranteed that President Trump is well aware of this fact. That said, Trump also knows very well that in the end he needs the Republican Swamp Dwellers on his side when push comes to shove.
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