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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sun May 21, 2017, 01:33 PM May 2017

Chaffetz hopes Trump didn't call Comey 'nut job' to Russians

Source: ABC News

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who is leading one of the congressional investigations of Russia’s election interference and its possible ties to the Trump campaign, said he's concerned by a report in The New York Times that President Trump called fired FBI Director James Comey a “nut job” at a meeting with Russian government officials.

“I hope that’s not true, I don’t know if that’s what was said or not,” the Utah Republican told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos of the report about the president's May 10 meeting.

Chaffetz added that he would prefer that Trump had confronted the Russians over their interference with the election. “You would like the president to beat them over the head over that,” he said on "This Week" Sunday.

The House Oversight Committee needs to see transcripts of all relevant conversations about the Russia investigation, Chaffetz said, referring to any written accounts of the Oval Office meeting with the Russians and Comey’s reported detailed memos of his own interactions with the president.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chaffetz-hopes-trump-call-comey-nut-job-russians/story?id=47540364



Chaffetz is making a last minute effort to pretend that he is not a Trump stooge as he heads out of the House.
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Chaffetz hopes Trump didn't call Comey 'nut job' to Russians (Original Post) TomCADem May 2017 OP
Why is he literally "running away" from DC? Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #1
I assume he is waiting to see how much -how lucrative Fox news is offering him. riversedge May 2017 #3
Did he remove "classified" from Comey letter? Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #7
What are you referring to? riversedge May 2017 #11
Allegation is when Chaffetz got the Clinton letter from Comey, that Comey should have never sent Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #14
Amazing how so many Rs are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. LonePirate May 2017 #2
No. That is not true. Control-Z May 2017 #13
Jason,Jason,you would not know what the truth is if it hit you Wellstone ruled May 2017 #4
HandSlap Chaffetz plays stupid while packing his bags. Eyeball_Kid May 2017 #5
What disgusting weasel. gademocrat7 May 2017 #6
It's in the White House's official notes of the meeting! fountainofyouth May 2017 #8
exactly steve2470 May 2017 #9
ChaffeAss is playing the republican "cutesy with the truth" game Achilleaze May 2017 #12
"Good news": He didn't say it to the Russians. mwooldri May 2017 #10

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
14. Allegation is when Chaffetz got the Clinton letter from Comey, that Comey should have never sent
Sun May 21, 2017, 05:03 PM
May 2017

Chaffetz removed the classified from it then released it.

LonePirate

(13,414 posts)
2. Amazing how so many Rs are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Sun May 21, 2017, 01:37 PM
May 2017

They never gave Hillary a similar benefit. Instead she was guilty until proven innocent time after time after time ...

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
13. No. That is not true.
Sun May 21, 2017, 04:55 PM
May 2017

What is this "until proven innocent" stuff? Hillary is guilty even after "proven innocent time after time after time ..."

I do agree with the point of your post.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Jason,Jason,you would not know what the truth is if it hit you
Sun May 21, 2017, 01:59 PM
May 2017

in the face. Hearing little Jason,the ex-field goal kicker,cut a deal with the Ethics Committee. Illegal Server,something about campaign funds,something about messing with an Aide,naw,just a clean cut fellow from Utah.

No such thing.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
12. ChaffeAss is playing the republican "cutesy with the truth" game
Sun May 21, 2017, 04:06 PM
May 2017

pretending he does not know how badly the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, pissed all over protocol by putting down one of America's honorable servants in front of the russian Debt-Masters who rule his corrupt keester, and his cabal of corrupt republican cronies.

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