Investigation-loving GOP leader sides with Trump against investigations

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The most memorable moment of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this week were his remarks condemning congressional investigation into his many scandals. The president warned lawmakers that scrutinizing the controversies would not only be dangerous for the country, it would also prevent any kind of legislative progress over the next two years.

If the idea was to intimidate Democratic lawmakers into submission, Trump’s efforts failed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made clear yesterday that she and her members would not be bullied by the president’s “all-out threat,” and as Rachel noted on the show last night, the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee moved forward yesterday with their plans to get answers to pressing questions.

It was against this backdrop that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) endorsed the White House’s position.

“Look, we will never give up our oversight role, but this country is too great for a small vision of just investigations,” McCarthy said at a press conference. “There are challenges out there that we have to get done. And to be fair, we have been investigating for the last two years.
“I think it should come to a close. I think the country wants to be able to solve the problems going forward,” McCarthy said.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/investigation-loving-gop-leader-sides-trump-against-investigations

[Botany]

1. McCarthy knows what the investigations will show

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

In the transcript published by the Post, McCarthy speculates that the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers and, in the process, discovered whatever opposition-research materials the Democrats had gathered on Trump.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, according to Entous, a superb reporter who heard a tape recording of the colloquy. “Swear to God.”

Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican from California with a peculiar amalgam of views: pro-marijuana, dubious about climate change, pro-torture. For this last position, in 2007, Keith Olbermann awarded him his periodic “Worst Person in the World” award, on his old MSNBC show. Like Trump, Rohrabacher has been highly solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, Politico ran an article on Rohrabacher called “Putin’s Favorite Congressman.”

In the Post piece, McCarthy’s remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, “This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?”

[dalton99a]

4. Yep.

[malaise]

2. Why didn't McCarthy tell the FBI that

Russia was paying the Con and the beaten Congressman (Russiabacker) in California

[NewJeffCT]

3. hey fuckhead

your party investigated Socks the Cat and had at least 8 investigations into Benghazi.

I'm surprised you were able to tear your mouth away from the Mushroom long enough to say that much.

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[Grammy23]

5. You're Damn straight, McCarthy! We want to see the end of the investigations, too.

But not one minute before every single traitor and turncoat has been uncovered, discovered and brought to justice. So don’t you dare try to bring it to a close prematurely. What do you have to hide that makes you so eager to stop it?? Eh, Kevin?

[FreepFryer]

6. Keep dreaming you traitor. You called it yourself in 16 when you named Trump as a Putin payee.

Your day of decision will come.

A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

[uponit7771]

8. Didn't this A-hole OPENLY say they were investigating Clinton to bring down her numbers?!?!!?