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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIrate 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. Senates most powerful Republicans is fuming mad at President Donald Trump.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has declared war against Trumps White House according to a new report in POLITICO.
Whats riled up Grassley is the refusal by the Trump administration to turn over sensitive information related to Russia.
This mornings 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 Republicans demand for Justice Department documents on its probe of possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow has left William Evaninas nomination to head the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in limbo for the past year, frustrating the nations 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 administrations 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
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Voltaire2
(12,629 posts)1. I predict Grassley will fall in line momentarily.
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
and co-enablers ... they will face the music along with trump
Chuck got his headline. That's all he ever wants.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)6. +1, they have something on him too
spanone
(135,637 posts)3. K&R...
Leith
(7,802 posts)4. If he is so gosh-darn angry
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?