Whitaker Will Return To Congress To ‘Clarify’ Testimony

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 08: Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker hears from staff while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill February 08, 201... WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 08: Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker hears from staff while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill February 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. Following a subpoena fight between committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and the Justice Department, Whitaker was questioned about his oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) confirmed Tuesday that former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker will return to Congress to “clarify” his testimony after a contentious hearing during which Whitaker refused to engage in many lines of questioning.

Whitaker will have to address a New York Times story from last week saying that President Donald Trump asked Whitaker to try to install a Trump-friendly attorney at the head of the Michael Cohen probe. Committee members are trying to determine if Whitaker has already perjured himself.

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  1. Can we make sure that Whitaker gets billed for the amount of bottled water he consumes this time around?

  2. This should be a riveting episode of So You Think You Can Dance.

  3. Avatar for evave2 evave2 says:

    I am not going to discuss Whitaker’s testimony; the ‘content of his character’ is an arrogant a-hole whom I can see is just not a ‘top flight’ person. It must’ve been ‘awful’ for career DoJ people to work with him.

    What I want to know, does anybody else see Bullethead from the old Dick Tracy comics? Now there are a LOT of guys floating around in this investigation who appear to have shaved their heads, but Whitaker is just such a ‘perfect’ Bullethead to me it is hard for me not to laugh when I see him.

    Such a maroon. I hope Nadler nails his ass to the chair and his head to the floor (like the Ferocious Piranha Brothers from the old Monty Python sketch).

  4. He’s just loading up so he can piss all over the rule of law.

  5. When he requests a bathroom break, Nadler should point out that they have no big dick toilets. “Will you be ok?”

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