Discussion: Whitaker: 'I Really Don't Have Anything To Add' To Claim Mueller Is Wrapping Up

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Whitaker: 'I Really Don't Have Anything To Add' To Claim Mueller Is Wrapping Up Whitaker: 'I Really Don't Have Anything To Add' To Claim Mueller Is Wrapping Up Back to article
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They really ought to beat he up over this. If he spoke about it in public, then he already violated the DOJ regulations. He can’t pick and chose what to disclose, and they have oversight responsibilities that allow them to ask follow up questions once he broached a topic.

Given his bogus “executive privilege” claims, I think they will have to subpoena him and compel answers. They really need to make an example early for everyone in Trump world that they mean business, and Whitaker makes a particularly venial/stupid target that is good to go after. Better to make him the test subject than e.g. Pompeo.

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All Whitaker can do is stonewall.

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Clever clever.

Blofeld would be proud.

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Lofgren also asked if Whitaker share his feelings about Mueller’s probe, which he criticized publicly as a pundit before joining the Justice Department, with the President or his inner circle while he was a private citizen.

“No, I did not,” Whitaker said.

He fulminated copiously on Fox News as to his personal opinions about the probe. Trump is glued to the television for hours a day watching Fox News. To claim he hasn't shared his feelings about the probe with the President is splitting hairs and too cute by half.
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I’m having a really hard time with the fact that Whitaker refuses to answer if he thinks that the Mueller investigation is a Witch Hunt or not.

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Matt sure is drinking a lot of water today. They might have to have a bathroom break pretty soon.

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He’s doomed if he says ‘yes it is’ (Congress) and he’s doomed if he says ‘no it isn’t’ (Trump).

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I guess it’s a positive that his answer wasn’t “Congressman, it would be inappropriate for me to talk about an ongoing witch hunt”

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And he’s not even good at that

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Well, he does somewhat resemble a stone wall…

Does that count?

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He looks like a crook.

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More stonewalling today from his boss:

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Wow! Just Wow.

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He looks like Mr Clean’s fuckup cousin

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And then this. How are Bezos, Trump, AMI, Khashoggi, and Saudi Arabia related?

Have to add this @aiddon

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“Yes, Rep. Lofgren. When you have piled up a mountain of bullshit like I have, adding a few more turds really makes no difference at all.”

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“Mistakes happen. We acknowledge that this was a huge mistake."

JFC, that sounds like something one of the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg would have said.

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Steve Cohen: “Would you say the Special Counsel’s investigation is a witch hunt? Are you overseeing a witch hunt?”

To which Matthew Whitaker replied, “I’ll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too!”

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