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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 05:19 PM Mar 2019

Irate GOP Senator Is Fighting Trump Over 'Embarrassing' Russia Documents



Posted on Sun, Mar 17th, 2019 by Leo Vidal
Irate GOP Senator Is Fighting Trump Over ’Embarrassing’ Russia Documents


One of the U.S. Senate’s most powerful Republicans is fuming mad at President Donald Trump.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has declared war against Trump’s White House according to a new report in POLITICO.

What’s riled up Grassley is the refusal by the Trump administration to turn over sensitive information related to Russia.

This morning’s article says that Grassley “is accusing the Trump administration of stonewalling him over a request for documents related to the Russia investigation,” so he is holding up the nomination of a key Trump appointee.

Then the article goes on to say:

“The Iowa Republican’s demand for Justice Department documents on its probe of possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow has left William Evanina’s nomination to head the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in limbo for the past year, frustrating the nation’s top intelligence leaders and even some fellow Senate Republicans.”


The POLITICO report notes that Grassley is seeking specific documents concerning to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, “who became a conduit between former British spy Christopher Steele and the FBI.”

In a statement submitted to the Congressional Record, Grassley wrote:

“The administration’s continued, ongoing, and blatant lack of cooperation has forced my hand.”


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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/03/17/irate-gop-senator-is-fighting-trump-over-embarrassing-russia-documents.html
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Irate GOP Senator Is Fighting Trump Over 'Embarrassing' Russia Documents (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2019 OP
I predict Grassley will fall in line momentarily. Voltaire2 Mar 2019 #1
Of course he will ... just like the rest of the co-conspirators Miigwech Mar 2019 #2
Yup. rsdsharp Mar 2019 #5
+1, they have something on him too uponit7771 Mar 2019 #6
K&R... spanone Mar 2019 #3
If he is so gosh-darn angry Leith Mar 2019 #4

Voltaire2

(12,629 posts)
1. I predict Grassley will fall in line momentarily.
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 05:28 PM
Mar 2019

They all do. They are all complicit in the rise of American Fascism.

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
2. Of course he will ... just like the rest of the co-conspirators
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 05:36 PM
Mar 2019

and co-enablers ... they will face the music along with trump

Leith

(7,802 posts)
4. If he is so gosh-darn angry
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 06:20 PM
Mar 2019

then why doesn't he do something other than grumble and sputter? He could do more than hold up one nomination. How did he vote on Kavanaugh, for example? Or any other of the items that came up for a vote in the last couple of years?

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