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Zorro

(15,751 posts)
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 09:27 PM Jul 2019

'It's really a new low': In first news conference, deputy attorney general lashes out at Congress

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen had calmly fended off more than a dozen questions — some of them about the criminal justice reform legislation he had planned to discuss, others on various controversies of the day — and begun to walk away from the stage. His first news conference as the Justice Department’s No. 2 official was nearly behind him.

Then a Fox News reporter asked how he felt about the House of Representatives’ vote this week to hold Rosen’s boss, Attorney General William P. Barr, in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena related to the administration’s failed effort to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Rosen returned to the lectern.

“We’re talking about what is, unfortunately, the crassest form of political theater, and from where I stand, I’m deeply disappointed that the House leadership would proceed in that way, with something that is so obviously beneath the dignity of the offices they hold,” Rosen said. “It’s really a new low for the current House of Representatives.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/its-really-a-new-low-in-first-news-conference-deputy-attorney-general-lashes-out-at-congress/2019/07/19/4481ccdc-aa41-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html

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'It's really a new low': In first news conference, deputy attorney general lashes out at Congress (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2019 OP
LOL Skittles Jul 2019 #1
+1. They're low-life street thugs dalton99a Jul 2019 #8
A new low alright Va Lefty Jul 2019 #2
Talk about political theater Tech Jul 2019 #3
That group think they are superior to the rest of us. wasupaloopa Jul 2019 #4
Give him free sex. gibraltar72 Jul 2019 #5
K&R UTUSN Jul 2019 #6
Trump has turned our Department of Justice to shit. dalton99a Jul 2019 #7

Skittles

(153,226 posts)
1. LOL
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 09:30 PM
Jul 2019

the idea that anyone working for William Fucking Barr could describe any situation as a "new low"

Tech

(1,773 posts)
3. Talk about political theater
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 09:34 PM
Jul 2019

Turns, walks away, gets stopped by Fox (lol) reporter (lol) turns back, indignant. Too funny.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
4. That group think they are superior to the rest of us.
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 09:44 PM
Jul 2019

We can show them how inferior they are by kicking trump out of the White House

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