The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday described a New York Times report that President Donald Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to stop his investigation of ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as “a smoking gun with a lot of dark smoke.”
In an interview, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD): “Do you see that potentially as an obstruction of justice?”
“Yes I do, simple as that,” Cummings said. “I think the President has been — has had basically — he hasn’t had to answer to anybody, really, up to now. And now he stepped over the line. Clearly we’ve got a smoking gun with a lot of dark smoke. And it is very, very unfortunate and I think it’s a sad day for our country.”
Blitzer asked if the report described an incident that was “potentially impeachable, if it’s an obstruction of justice?”
“I think we’re going to have to look into it a little bit further, Wolf. But I would think so,” Cummings said.
He added that his committee had requested records from the White House on Flynn’s hiring and firing, among other issues.
“Now this perhaps provides us with an answer as to why we haven’t been able to get one single syllable from the White House,” he said.
‘Smoking gun with a lot of FIRE’. There, fixed it.
The “I” word is now openly being discussed. Boy, this has escalated quickly.
Anyone not named Kushner or Ivanka should be running for the life raft if they have even a modicum of sense in their heads.
You just know Trump will take you down with him if at all possible as he takes no responsibility for his behavior.
Even Sen. King of Maine is using it.
Alas, Trump deregulated the political high seas, and lifeboats were made optional. I think The USS Trump has been sailing unencumbered by safety equipment.
I’m still waiting for the NYT to write a “dark clouds forming around the Trump administration” article similar to the onslaught of “dark cloud” articles they put out about Hillary during the campaign.