White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday brushed off House Democrats’ current subpoenas and investigations as “a little gratuitous” and an excuse to attack President Donald Trump.
Conway appeared on Fox News’ “Americas Newsroom” to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena of ex-White House counsel Don McGahn after special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed that he was a crucial witness in Mueller’s obstruction probe.
House Democrats have also launched investigations into Trump’s tax returns and his administration’s shady security clearance practices.
“When you prosecute and investigate you either refer for indictment or decline to refer for indictment,” Conway said of Mueller’s sweeping Russia and obstruction investigation. “The rest is a little gratuitous for some looking and searching for a way to get the President.”
Watch Conway below:
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Ask her about the resources and time the House spent on Bengazhi hearings before she calls the Democratic party’s probes “gratuitous.”
And the AG’s determination that you cannot indict and therefor only have one option, not two, has no bearing on the outcome.
I have to agree with Conway here. There is really no genuine legislative function that is served by having McGahn testify for “oversight” purposes; you have to make up a purpose as pretext.
Democrats should agree with Conway – acknowledge that Mueller did this part of their job for them, and get on with the next part; beginning impeachment proceedings based on Trump’s obstruction of a counterintelligence investigation into a Russian attack on America.
“Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay.” - George Conway (the gratuitous husband of Kellyanne)
I’d agree with Conway that hell yes we’re trying to “get” the president because he’s a damn criminal and security threat. That said, I think oversight is a genuine legislative function and establishing that he did indeed strenuously try to obstruct justice is a clear fact that Barr has covered up. It’s not just a do-over. The story needs to be told again, the right way this time.