GOP senator: 'I don't care' if Trump broke the law

[babylonsister]

Washington, D.C.
Monday, December 10, 2018
GOP senator: ‘I don’t care’ if Trump broke the law
By Kaili Joy Gray -
December 10, 2018


To Orrin Hatch, it's OK to commit felonies if you're a Republican.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, the retiring Republican from Utah who will be replaced by failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, really doesn’t have a problem with fellow Republicans who commit crimes.

Asked to respond to recent court filings that directly implicate Trump in a felony, Hatch first tried to deflect by suggesting Democrats had somehow made the whole thing up.

“The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president,” Hatch said.

But this very serious and very credible allegation against Trump comes from federal prosecutors, not Democrats. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York laid out the case in a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer.

After this was pointed out to Hatch, however, he kept shrugging it off.

“OK, but I don’t care,” was Hatch’s answer. “All I can say is he’s doing a good job as president.”

This is not the first time Hatch has made clear he doesn’t care about the law — so long as it’s a Republican who’s breaking it.

During the disgraceful confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Hatch said he didn’t care if Kavanaugh had in fact attempted to rape a girl, as he was credibly accused of doing.

“If that was true,” Hatch said in September — “that” being the allegation by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh pinned her down, covered her mouth, and tried to rape her when they were both in high school — “I think it would be hard for senators to not consider who the judge is today. That’s the issue. Is this judge a really good man? And he is. And by any measure he is.”

Hatch, like the rest of his fellow Republicans in the Senate, went on to vote for Kavanaugh to receive a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.

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[Mike Nelson]

1. I wonder...

… if he's suffering from dementia? He doesn't even try to pretend, anymore...

[a kennedy]

3. I know.......he's been suffering from dementia for quite a long time now.....

[pbmus]

2. Orrin the terrible just cares where the closest bathroom is...

[ffr]

4. I'm Orin Hatch. I'm old. Don't hold me repsonsible for anything I say and do.

You can't jail me. I'm too old. I have grand kids.

COMPLICIT! Don't do the crime if you can do the time. That's the way it works for the rest of us civilians. That's the way it should work for civilians running for higher office, as Individual-1 did.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. shake any GOPer and the same answer will fall out

Their moral compass points one way: What's in it for me?

[Baitball Blogger]

6. They're all complicit.

We're watching the last stand for white privilege.

[monmouth4]

7. When is his term over or is he due to retire? It will be a great day to see the back of him. n/t

[MoonchildCA]

11. In about three and a half weeks.

He's retiring. Mitt Romney won his seat.

[Laurian]

8. So strange. Although I have always disagreed with Hatch's positions,

I never saw him as one of the strident, hateful Republicans. I thought he and Lindsey Graham were more in the mold of John McCain.

Trump has brought out some despicable traits in this one. And Graham.

[Hassler]

10. This tells us two things: Orral Hack's "stinking career" continues to stink to the end.

And the Russians paid him. He's thoroughly corrupt.

[BSdetect]

12. Total scum and traitor enabler

[madinmaryland]

13. Party before Country. The Republic Party. nt

[milestogo]

14. Well that's settled, then.

[AZ8theist]

15. WHAT THE FUCK??!?!?!

HATCH YOU FUCKING TRAITOR!!!

FUCK YOU 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

YOU FUCKING TRAITOROUS SCUMBAG.

[GWC58]

16. Senator Orrin "IOKIYAAR" Hatch

That about says it all. Same can be said of Senator Rand “President Obama is acting like a King” Paul. Blatant hypocrisy at its finest. Or is it at its worst? 😳

[BootinUp]

17. No surprise there. Nt

[spanone]

18. fuck off orrin

you terminally partisan ignorant arse

[UpInArms]

19. Orint ya gone yet hatch

Needs to die a nasty death from a hideous disease

And his remains should be placed in a radioactive proof container so that he won’t be able to pollute anything else

I hope the door doesn’t hit him in the ass on his way out

[C_U_L8R]

20. That oath you swore

Doesn’t mean shit anymore. Resign, Hatch.

[bullwinkle428]

21. Exhibit A, as to why the act of impeachment is a fool's errand.

[budkin]

22. The biggest asshole in the Senate next to McTurtle

I hope he dies painfully of pancreatic cancer. I'm not joking.

[DRoseDARs]

23. Follow-up question: How much Russian money has Orrin Hatch received?

Frankly, every Republican at this point needs to be asked that because it sure has been sounding like the Russians really went deep and wide for this operation. Here and in Europe.

[vercetti2021]

24. Fuck off and die already

That is all

[BigmanPigman]

25. Good riddance, Hack!

[struggle4progress]

26. "I'm a real smock!"

[lunasun]

27. Despicable

[roamer65]

28. Oral Hatch is a traitor.

[Jarqui]

29. Hatch voted to impeach Bill Clinton finding him guilty of perjury and obstruction

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.statements/

He's a partisan hypocrite

[bronxiteforever]

30. Another Hatch quote from 1999

Hatch, said in 1999 that Clinton's crimes "go to the heart of qualification for public office."
"This great nation can tolerate a President who makes mistakes. But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up," Hatch, who was then a Utah senator, said at the time.


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/jeff-sessions-trump-backers-supported-clinton-impeachment-article-1.3173046

[Volaris]

31. Rage. Can the Democratic House supbonea the republican Senate (ALL of them)

And get them on record as supporting the Rule of Law, Instead of the Rule of Republicans?

Cause it would be fun as hell to get them on record as supporting the Rule of Law, and then doing exactly the opposite.