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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:19 PM Feb 2022

Morning Joe: Dems Should Take Page From Jim Jordan Playbook; hold endless hearings

Joe Scarborough says they should hold endless hearings about Trump's violations of the Public Records Act.


Morning Joe was discussing the story that Trump was flushing documents down the toilet. Joe Scarborough talked to Kurt Bardella about public hearings.

"Kurt, in your latest piece for USAToday, it is entitled 'But Hillary's E-Mail" and you write in part this. 'Given the bombshell revelations, coupled with their concern with federal government record-keeping compliance, you would think Republicans would be foaming at the mouth, chanting, "lock him up" and calling for an immediate series of hearings and subpoenas to be issued to anyone who was part of the Trump white house, and yet nothing. Crickets. Silence," Scarborough said.


https://crooksandliars.com/2022/02/morning-joe-dems-should-take-page-jim

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Raven123

(4,830 posts)
1. If there hadn't been an insurrection, I might agree. Might have overlap and be a distraction
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:24 PM
Feb 2022

Public hearings on the insurrection coming soon. I’m sure this issue will come up. Once the Committee puts out its report, maybe they will ( unless by then Trump is indicted or the DOJ announces and investigation)

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,834 posts)
3. Seems to me they held so many hearings on Hillary (email and Benghazi) because they had nothin'.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:28 PM
Feb 2022

So then hassling her became the actual objective. With the toilet stuff and other mishandling of documents we have actual wrongdoing to nail him on. Endless hearings wouldn't serve any real purpose.

FalloutShelter

(11,860 posts)
4. Beat me to the punch.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:40 PM
Feb 2022

The difference between us and them is that they have absolutely no interest in governing.
Democrats are concerned with bringing about justice and also getting deliverables for the citizens.

Big difference.

Scrivener7

(50,949 posts)
6. Yes. The average person attends to things that are shoved in front of them over and over.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 08:03 PM
Feb 2022

Though I hate to agree with Joe Scarborough.

Mr.Bill

(24,284 posts)
8. We need to get to who helped with this
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 08:20 PM
Feb 2022

and what exactly they were directed to do. What kind of documents were they told to pack up, who gave the orders, etc. Trump didn't do this by himself.

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