Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of one of the committee leading the House impeachment probe, said on Sunday that he’d officially call on the State Department to comply with impeachment investigators’ subpoenas if Democrats subpoena the whistleblower who flagged President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine.
Oh, yes, he was at the hearings, but you know.
“You bet, because I don’t think there’s anything there at all that is going to implicate the President,” Stewart replied.
Uh-huh, OK. Whatever you say.
Magical thinking.
“If, Sean, you will join with me in calling to hear from the whistleblower,” he added"
Right. I’m with you in complying with subpoenas, it you help us break the law and put someone’s life in jeopardy…
‘Because if there was, I wouldn’t.’
I rarely if ever complain about TPM’s headlines, but this one is pretty bad. This GOPer did not say that State should comply with anything. He said the whistleblower should be subpoenaed. And if the whistleblower is subpoenaed, he’d personally ask State to comply with the subpeona they are currently flouting. A proper headline would read GOPer On Intel Committee Spews More Bullshit.
Watched this live - I’m might be reading into this, but Stewart’s heart just didn’t seem to be into defending Trump.
OT. Just saw this at WaPo
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Stewart is a joke, but all credit to Sean Maloney in this snippet from the interview. He was strong and on his game.
It is like finding out your big sports star is as bad as the competition says. But you have been following along because well, you have to support the team. And it ain’t getting easier by the day. You are still wearing the team jersey and saying rah rah things, but your face is saying something different.
Republicans: Deciding cases before hearing the evidence or refusing to listen in the first place (Miss Lindzy, I’m looking at you!). What a bunch of corrupt idiots. What are they scared of? That if the truth gets out it will set them free from their cushy, high paying “jobs”? I heard yesterday on “On the Media” that Trump has been making these goons pass loyalty tests since he came into power, and their impeachment votes are the final exam. That about sums it up.
I hope Rep. Stewart is practicing his surprised and shocked face.
Did you watch him during the hearing on Friday?
Rep. Chris Stewart: "If, Sean, you will join with me in calling to hear from the whistleblower.”
It makes sense that he would say that. After all, to be a Republican is to be spiritually unwell. Scientifically the condition is known as being a sack of shit, and it is incurable.
Why they want to “hear from the whistle-blower” is, of course, something they cannot explain.
Chris Stewart is my Congressman and I have never been more ashamed. What an utter disgrace of a man. Pathetic and twisted.
For one, the whistleblower is not needed. His/her accusations have been independently corroborated by multiple sources and witnesses (including the official summary of tRump’s famously ‘perfect’ call). The inquiry has moved beyond the whistleblower. And two, Repuglicans like Stewart want the whistleblower to testify so s/he can be outed and punished and harrassed (and possibly killed by one of the deplorables), so that no one is brave enough to ever again submit a whistleblower complaint against Dear Leader. In other words, it’s unvarnished bull***t.
Part of trump’s brilliant witness-intimidation strategy.
And impeachable in its own right.
And, they don’t want to explain it.
As I’m sure you know, they really don’t care about the whistle-blower except to give their base something to hold on to. It folds back to their attempt to keep the whole process looking like a legal process (instead of a political process) and like a trial (like Law and Order).
Under the legal process umbrella, we are ‘entitled to face our accuser’. Even though the whistle-blower is superfluous now, it allows the R’s to keep calling the process a sham.
FOX had higher viewers than anyone last Wednesday (more older R’s who can watch daytime TV), so maintaining the ‘sham’, ‘hoax’, ‘legal’ talking points, are essential to keep their base from understanding the truth.