Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that Congress should investigate the “real reason” for what he called Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ “termination.”
Sessions resigned at Trump’s request, his resignation letter revealed Wednesday, and Trump announced that Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, would take over as acting attorney general. Cummings said Wednesday that Congress should confirm that Whitaker “is recused from all aspects of the Special Counsel’s probe, and ensure that the Department of Justice safeguards the integrity of the Mueller investigation.”
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Maryland Democrat expected to lead the House Oversight committee, also responds to the Sessions ouster by saying Congress should investigate pic.twitter.com/BNgmiSp54J
— Mark Berman (@markberman) November 7, 2018
That’s gonna be one short investigation.
Lordy, I hope there’s tapes…
Gonna be close…
As if Democrats needed a good starting point to begin their first investigation, Trump just dropped this one on the tee for us then insulted our mothers. Simply amazing. They could have screamed about how any investigation was old news and the media might have played along…until they gave us a new thing to investigate that covers all the old things combined in an exciting new way.
I wonder how much Sessions will have preferred testifying as Attorney General instead of rando citizen. I bet he’d like even more to be sitting in the Senate instead.
Like x 1,000. This really is a gift.