Rep. Speier Wants Lewandowski to Be Fined for ‘Inherent Contempt’
Democrat Speier out looking for imaginary reservoir of anything but contempt for Congress
HOLY COW, JACKIE!!! 90% OF AMERICAN ADULTS (INCLUDING THOSE FEW DEMOCRATS WHO COULD BE SO CHARACTERIZED) COULD BE FINED WITH THAT AS THE STANDARD!
HOW CAN A SENTIENT BEING NOT HAVE CONTEMPT FOR THAT PACK OF DEMOCRATS ON DISPLAY TUESDAY?!?
BUT WHAT A GOLDMINE SUGGESTION!!
Other gems to mine from Democrat Judiciary Committee statements indicated below.
From the CNS article by Susan Jones (excerpts) (bold our emphasis)
(CNSNews.com) – Because former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski did not indulge the Democrats’ “get Trump” efforts at Tuesday’s House Judiciary hearing, some say he should be punished, even though Lewandowski complied with the committee’s subpoena and did answer some, but not all of their questions about facts that already are known.
“I think you have to look at Mr. Lewandowski as an adverse witness,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), a member of the House intelligence and Oversight Committees, told CNN on Tuesday.
“He had no interest in complying with this actual subpoena, outside of showing up. He intended to obstruct justice once again, frankly, by not being willing to give answers to questions by the Democrats.
“I think if I were Mr. Nadler right now, I would be slapping Mr. Lewandowski with an inherent contempt order and calling him in front of the House of Representatives and fining him, because he is a key witness,” Speier said.
“He is refusing to answer. And so, when you refuse to answer, I think you have but one course of action. And that is by ensuing what would be calling inherit contempt and then start fining him.
“And the only thing that talks around this administration is money. So if you start fining him, let’s say, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 a day, at some point, you are going to get him to comply.”
(Asked about Speier’s suggestion, Lewandowski told Fox News Tuesday night, “And Jackie Speier wants to fine me? For what, coming to Congress and testifying in open Congress under oath?”)
. . . “That is correct. That is really where I stand on it,” Speier responded. “I certainly would not try to suggest what Mr. Nadler should be doing. But if I were in his shoes, that is what I would be doing, because it is very clear what they want to do. They want to prevent us from doing a fulsome investigation of impeachment. . . . *
In an interview with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who sits on the Judiciary Committee, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer noted that the American public didn’t learn anything new at Tuesday’s hearing because it’s all included in the Mueller report. . . . .
“And so we take seriously our responsibility on the Judiciary Committee to do just that. The House is a separate and coequal branch of government. ** We don’t work for Donald Trump, we work for the American people. And this is information we need to gather and put forward.” . . .
Lewandowski told Fox News the same thing he told the committee: “I have nothing to hide, because we never committed any crimes at the campaign. We never colluded with anyone, which is exactly what the Mueller report says.”
*Funny Speier should choose the word “fulsome ” The primary meanings are:
1) offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.
2) disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods.
3) excessively or insincerely lavish: fulsome admiration.
**”The House is a separate and coequal branch of government” No Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the House does not comprise the Congress or legislative branch. It is one half of the power of the Congress the coequal branch. The House with the Senate comprises the Congress.
