Last updated on April 4th, 2019 at 11:46 am
Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler responded to Donald Trump‘s attacks on Tuesday with two words: So what?
In an interview with MSNBC‘s Ari Melber, the powerful Democratic lawmaker called Trump small-minded and pledged to continue using his committee to get the complete Mueller report and underlying evidence – regardless of the president’s childish temper tantrums.
“I’m the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and we have a job to do,” the congressman said. “Which is to protect the rule of law against the obstruction of justice and abuses of power and personal enrichment, and we have to do that job.”
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Rep. Nadler said:
The president is very small-minded. Yes, we had clashes about some developments on the west side of Manhattan, many years ago. But so what? What’s relevant now is that I’m the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and we have a job to do, which is to protect the rule of law against the obstruction of justice and abuses of power and personal enrichment, and we have to do that job. And the fact is, there was an investigation for 22 months, and now the attorney general in four days, an attorney general who auditioned for his job by writing essentially that the investigation was wrong in itself and that a president could never commit obstruction of justice, which is an extreme view. And so he’s not the proper person to oversee this or to decide what gets public and we have to see all the material and the underlying, to see the report and the underlying documents to protect the public and protect the rule of law.
Nadler’s comments come just hours after Trump took direct aim at the congressman, saying: “Nadler has been fighting me for years and years in Manhattan. It’s a 400-page report, right? We could give them 800 pages and it wouldn’t be enough.”
On Wednesday, Nadler says his committee could vote to subpoena the complete Mueller report.
Trump realizes the Barr summary stunt has backfired
It was obvious by Donald Trump’s Oval Office name-calling on Tuesday that he is getting increasingly concerned that Democrats in Congress will get their hands on the full Mueller report.
The president is realizing that his public relations blitz – kicked off by William Barr’s hollow, four-page summary – has backfired miserably. The American people aren’t buying it, and they are demanding to see the 400-page report laying out Mueller‘s actual conclusions.
It’s no surprise now that the president is attacking the same lawmakers – Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff – driving the effort to get Mueller‘s report. But clearly, these childish insults are intimidating nobody.
Congress and the American people will see the report, one way or another.
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Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
