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08-24-2019, 02:57 AM
ICYMI – Elder Patriot’s Opinion & Speculation -5/7/19 – Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), appeared with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto yesterday to discuss whether Robert Mueller should be called to testify in front of Congress about the details of the 22-month long investigation he was in charge of.
Specifically, McClintock has questions about the origins of the original FBI investigation.
Partial transcript:
CAVUTO: Do you think what a lot of people are waiting to hear, what got this investigation going? And then maybe Democrats…
MCCLINTOCK: Yes.
CAVUTO: … your colleagues, are very concerned about what they will reveal, hence this sort of brushfire, preoccupation with everything Barr said, with what everything Mueller pointed out in the report, to deflect? What do you think of that?
MCCLINTOCK: Well, that’s the other shoe that’s about to drop.
We now know that this was a lie. That’s all laid out very clearly. Despite 22 months of investigations, millions of dollars spent, they were not able to find any evidence of collusion.
So we now know that was just a great hoax.
CAVUTO: Well, maybe not collusion, but a number of people are going to jail, or worse, right? I mean, not on the collusion issue, you’re right.
CAVUTO: But do you think that, by extending this and getting into it, that there is a risk for both parties that they overdo it?
MCCLINTOCK: Well, I think it’s important that we find out how this hoax developed and how it was used by senior officials in the FBI, in the intelligence agencies, in the Department of Justice and perhaps at the White House itself to influence our elections process, and, having failed to do that, having it — using it to undermine the president of the United States.
There’s a growing cadre of investigators who believe that the origins of the spy operation, against first candidate and then President Trump, was actually an “insurance policy” to conceal the Obama administration’s surveillance activities against a number of American citizens that date back into the early years of Obama’s presidency.
Specifically, McClintock has questions about the origins of the original FBI investigation.
Partial transcript:
CAVUTO: Do you think what a lot of people are waiting to hear, what got this investigation going? And then maybe Democrats…
MCCLINTOCK: Yes.
CAVUTO: … your colleagues, are very concerned about what they will reveal, hence this sort of brushfire, preoccupation with everything Barr said, with what everything Mueller pointed out in the report, to deflect? What do you think of that?
MCCLINTOCK: Well, that’s the other shoe that’s about to drop.
We now know that this was a lie. That’s all laid out very clearly. Despite 22 months of investigations, millions of dollars spent, they were not able to find any evidence of collusion.
So we now know that was just a great hoax.
CAVUTO: Well, maybe not collusion, but a number of people are going to jail, or worse, right? I mean, not on the collusion issue, you’re right.
CAVUTO: But do you think that, by extending this and getting into it, that there is a risk for both parties that they overdo it?
MCCLINTOCK: Well, I think it’s important that we find out how this hoax developed and how it was used by senior officials in the FBI, in the intelligence agencies, in the Department of Justice and perhaps at the White House itself to influence our elections process, and, having failed to do that, having it — using it to undermine the president of the United States.
There’s a growing cadre of investigators who believe that the origins of the spy operation, against first candidate and then President Trump, was actually an “insurance policy” to conceal the Obama administration’s surveillance activities against a number of American citizens that date back into the early years of Obama’s presidency.