GOP senator: 'I don't care' if Trump broke the law [View all]

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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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