President Trump has thoughts on the House Oversight Committee’s recommendation to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt over their failure to produce key documents relevant to the committee’s census citizenship question investigation.
In a series of tweets on Thursday morning, the President chalked up the contempt vote to a partisan squabble worthy of revenge: Democrats are playing a “tougher game” than the GOP did when they had control of the House.
“Republicans will remember!” he said in a tweet, before quoting a Fox News legal analyst who called the census case “campaigning.”
It’s the second time in the past 24 hours Trump has waded into the legal waters of the ongoing census citizenship case. Up until this point, he’s had little to say on the subject.
Before the House Oversight Committee took its contempt vote on Wednesday, Trump said it was “ridiculous” to not include the citizenship question on the 2020 census. Those remarks came just after the White House asserted executive privilege over the documents that the committee requested.
…..much tougher game than the Republicans did when they had the House Majority. Republicans will remember! “This has already been argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, but the House doesn’t want to wait. This is a common thread between all of the Committees – do whatever you…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019
….can to embarrass the Trump Administration (and Republicans), attack the Trump Administration. This is campaigning by the Dems.” Attorney David Bruno. So true! In the meantime they are getting NO work done on Drug Pricing, Infrastructure & many other things.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019
DUH… As if you need to say anything to make Republicans remember that they NEVER vote for anything that the Democrats want, unless it is in their best interest.
I wish Democrats (especially the front-runner) would remember that Republicans will never compromise.
as leader of the american fascist party the abomination has made his threat. he will make certain this nation suffers further for demanding fascists obey our laws.
not getting anything done on drug prices.
OMG that’s rich, a real knee-slapper. Dubya was all over it, and cheetoh twittler was gonna handle it like day 1, and then there were 2 years of republican control of both houses and the WH, but it’s the dems fault we get ripped off on drug prices.
har.
THIS
We need to “Reach across the aisle” with a spiked baseball bat
“In the meantime they are getting NO work done on Drug Pricing, Infrastructure & many other things.”
Maybe the grim reaper can tell you why.
But seriously, Dems need powerful messages to show the fact to the public. Working hard without boasting is not a good strategy.