Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Wednesday that he wasn’t planning on calling special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the committee.
“Enough already, it’s over,” Graham told reporters asking about a potential Mueller hearing following Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony before the committee.
Democrats have sought Mueller for hearings both because of his own probe into Russian election meddling and related matters, and because of Mueller’s letter in late March, first reported Tuesday, that protested Barr’s handling of the rollout of the probe’s final report.
Graham did say during Wednesday’s hearing, and afterward, that Mueller could be asked to testify if he disputed Barr’s characterizations of conversations he had with the special counsel.
Graham also said he wouldn’t call former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify, though McGahn was a key witness in Mueller’s probe.
“I’m not going to retry the case, I’m not calling McGahn, it is over,” he said.
Lindsey Graham says he won't call Mueller to testify because "I'm not going to do any more. Enough already. It's over." pic.twitter.com/JtyxqP2Kf8
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) May 1, 2019
This post has been updated.
Like Captain Renault, I am shocked! shocked!
Lindsey, you do not get to decide when this is over.
Senator Graham, no matter how hard you lick, no matter how much you debase yourself, no matter how much you compromise the integrity of a Senate you proclaim to revere, it won’t make whatever the Russians have on you (or that you think they have on you) go away.
It just doesn’t work like that.
I do appreciate, in a way, that he is avoiding even the appearance of propriety. It’s impossible to spin this as “I am trying to do the right thing”. There isn’t even an attempt.
wow wow wow
I just scrolled down through all the headlines.
I get it
Reapers are freaking out and screaming there fool heads off.
Liars, cheaters, back stabbers going for the full monty today.
I have seen enough.
Enjoy
and lets not forget that Miss Lindsay wants to reopen the investigation in Hillary’s emails…
I mean of all the people to say “its over”, Graham should not be one of them.