Elijah Cummings: House will investigate Kellyanne Conway for 'textbook example of violating the law'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



TOM BOGGIONI
12 FEB 2017 AT 13:38 ET

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said they will be investigating Trump Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway’s comments plugging Ivanka Trump’s clothing line from the White House on national TV, calling it a “textbook example of violating the law.”

The woman who has become the face of the Trump administration set off a firestorm on Thursday after she gave “a commercial” on Fox & Friends, encouraging viewers to go out and buy some of the first daughter’s fashion line that is faltering in department stores.

“It’s a wonderful line, I own some of it,” Conway said. “I’m going to give it a free commercial here, go buy it today!”

According to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), his committee has no choice but to investigate Conway for breaking the law by using a public office for private gain.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/elijah-cummings-house-will-investigate-kellyanne-conway-for-textbook-example-of-violating-the-law/

[Hortensis]

1. So many textbook criminals in that crowd.

I'm wishing the ONE being singled out for crimes committed wasn't the woman. Equal as she may be as scum, there are far bigger felons to fry. A number of them. Well, if they're trying to pick her off as a weak point, oh, well. She deserves whatever could happen and far, far more.

[TimeToGo]

10. My thought as well

I mean, I'm ok with the investigation, but it's pretty small -- and there is so, so much big wrong-doing.

[StarryNite]

11. Sometimes removing one small rock at the bottom

of a dam is enough to make the whole thing begin to crumble down. We can only hope that will happen with the tRump regime. It's got to start somewhere.

[Hortensis]

12. Agree with both of you. She's a face and an agent of 45th's

administration, and any disgrace she's involved in will illuminate its reality. We only need maybe another 3% of the electorate to vote against them in 2018 to change everything.

[lagomorph777]

21. Wasn't Little Donnie's Nordstrom tweet exactly the same thing?

[Hortensis]

22. Sure very similar, if not as black and white. Btw,

you sound like someone who might want to know (or not)--Scott Baio is boycotting Nordstrom's.
Probably any rise in stock prices from him is too small to measure, unlike the nice increase dropping the Ivanka line and the 45th's subsequent behavior generated.

[lagomorph777]

23. Well, I hope Mr. Baio can get by without the latest purse fashions...

Generally I avoid that category of store altogether, as I am allergic to perfume, but I am happy they are profiting from the idiocy of Agent Orange.

[Lotusflower70]

27. Agent Orange

That nickname has me thinking about R.E.M.'s song Orange Crush. It seems fitting since it's about betrayal.

[mainer]

24. Very small fish. Dems should target bigger fish

Conway's guilty of only a venal sin. There are mortal sins we should focus on.

[Hortensis]

25. We are. But some grab more attention. Just look at "pussy-gate."

If that had happened close to the election, before virtually all conservatives managed to rationalize their acceptance and blow it off, it would have changed everything.

But during its moment it was huge, much larger than mere mental dysfunction and repeated whiffs of treason in a candidate who proudly boasted of cheating and corruption as tactics of a winner.

[tazkcmo]

26. Nah.

Get them ALL. Big, small, micro, nano. ALL of them.

[vlyons]

2. She looks very haggard these days

very tough and hard, not the sweet, delicate feminine flower that needs protection. Don't incoming WH staff get 1-day workshop on ethics and laws pertaining to gov employment? Guess not.

[maddiemom]

3. 45 didn't get this workshop either...

and wouldn't have paid attention if he even showed up.

[Tanuki]

4. Kremlin Kelly is an attorney in her own right and has no excuse for this violation of

ethics and the law. She was trying to curry favor with the boss, the better to strengthen her position among the warring factions surrounding the groping incompetent who squats in what is now the Offal Office.

[vlyons]

6. Just because she's an attorney doesn't mean that she knew the special employment conditions

although A) she could have asked someone during the transition, or B) called in someone from the Ethics office to brief her. But she didn't. It just goes to the carelessness and recklessness of that whole crew.

[SeattleVet]

7. Just because she's an attorney doesn't mean that she really knows anything...

See: Michele Bachmann, Orly Taitz

[DK504]

15. Kremlin Kelly!!!!

OMG that is so fabulous. So stealing that one, genius.

Did any of these jackasses go any of their briefings on protocol or basic rules of being staff in the government? What a bunch of maroons.

[simguy225]

5. As seen in this video

[alfredo]

9. They did. It was three words, "don't get caught."

[Lotusflower70]

28. I doubt it

Since this group of idiots was trying to eliminate the Office of Government Ethics.

[montana_hazeleyes]

8. They all know they are doing wrong,

but they are now drunk with power and feel they can get away with anything they want to say or do. Then circulate lies their followers will parrot until it becomes truth to them.

45 said it himself when he bragged he could shoot someone down on 5th Ave. and not lose a follower. And they have the media in their pocket too.

[cstanleytech]

13. This has nothing to do with enforcing the rules for the Repugnants rather

they want to put on a show of doing so and they get the benefit of also maybe getting someone they really approve of in her position if she is removed or steps down.

[riversedge]

14. Fine. But it is crumbs compared to the Russia Hacking which Repugs are protecting Trump from.

[tclambert]

16. Ah, just imagining the FBI perp-walking Kellyanne out of the White House.

The FBI should put together a White House Task Force to prepare for all the arrests they are going to have to make.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, con way the hawker of trump crap.. the blotus on down

[Calista241]

18. Investigate what?

She said it on tv. What she said was against ethics rules. What, beyond that, is there to investigate?

Are they going to see if Conway benefited materially from what she said?

[bucolic_frolic]

19. It was so overt, obvious, deliberate

it was meant to take the heat off something else

[HoustonDave]

20. Hate to interrupt the lynching, but...

Has anyone bothered to establish a financial link between Conway and Ms. Trump? Kind of hard to indict based on "breaking the law by using a public office for private gain" if the party being charged gets no tangible gain from their alleged wrongdoing.