Breaking: Sen. Grassley postpones hearing at which Bill Browder — former client of Magnitsky — was due to testify. pic.twitter.com/Z9okZvUhFz
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 18, 2017
lmfao Grassley thought he could make the entire thing about poking holes in the Dossier but then Don Jr story broke https://t.co/jNXFSQbpdQ
— On Trial for ?????? (@ZeddRebel) July 18, 2017
And here we always assumed ol’ Chuck was too dumb stubborn to be successfully corrupted!:
… Grassley announced Tuesday he has sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly asking for additional visa records and immigration information on Akhmetshin, who became a U.S. citizen in 2009…
The Iowa Republican was set to chair a hearing Wednesday on enforcement of FARA, but the session was postponed. Glenn Simpson, co-founder of the firm Fusion GPS, which commissioned a British intelligence officer to compile a now-infamous dossier on President Donald Trump, was originally slated to testify. Grassley had also said he wanted Manafort to appear at Wednesday’s hearing…
Yeah, he’s probably not implicated in this particular scandal — just deeply committed to ensuring 100% Repub rule, laws and regulations be damned. The Hill, last week:
… Grassley’s main questions for Simpson involve who hired Fusion GPS to produce opposition research against Trump, and whether the firm shared the document with the FBI.
“When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics,” Grassley wrote in March…
“It’s only a crime when a Democrat does it, y’know.”
This was supposed to be a Fox-News-friendly kangaroo court where every aspiring Repub congresscritter could pose for the cameras while hammering on “Democrat venality” in regards to oppo research. Then Don’s idiot kids (by birth and marriage) had to get caught with their hand in the cookie jar and half a dozen Russian “patriots of the state” standing around with recording devices…
Looks like some not-technically-guilty-of-this-particular-crime might just end up involved to their misfortune, and I can’t think of a more deserving bunch of targets.
Among others, complaint named Natalia Veselnitskaya & Rinat Akhmetshin, both of whom met w/ Don Jr. in June 2016. https://t.co/CTGQsTGAKu
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 18, 2017
Note: Browder had not asked for any postponement, told me he just got of the train in DC to testify tomorrow.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 18, 2017
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