Husky. If you want a tough, dependable trail theyre will keep pulling long after the others have died, you need a road husky. Now, if you havent heard of road husky, its okay. A banker who helped Matt Whitaker arrange the financing for that trailer business told the Washington Post this week, quote, it did fine. It was not a huge business. He never did anything that was a huge business or even a mediumsized business, but he did have a knack for making connections, political connections in iowa. Matt whitaker, for example, volunteered on the george w. Bush 2000 president ial campaign in iowa, and he must have made quite an impression, because not that many years later, president george w. Bush named Matt Whitaker to be a u. S. Attorney in iowa. Now, he was not an obvious choice for that job. This becomes a theme in mr. Whitakers biography, if case youre wondering. When it came to george w. Bush naming him the top federal prosecutor in iowa, you just you wouldnt have imagined that this g
The aperture at the end of the hearing. From your testimony today, i gather that you believe that knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a president ial campaign is an unethical thing to do. And a crime. And a crime. Circumstances, yes. And a crime given certain circumstances. And to the degree it undermines our democracy and institutions, we can agree it is also unpatriotic. True. And wrong. True. Knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a president ial campaign is a crime in certain circumstances, according to Robert Mueller. It is wrong, it is unethical. Coming from a person who said repeatedly today that he was blocked from Justice Department policy from bringing an indictment against the president , even if he had wanted to, you know, maybe that rings a Little Hollow for him to say, yeah, that might have been a crime. Maybe it is, you know, just interesting, just dismaying to hear the actions of the president of the United States described as unpatriotic and unethical
Discussion in context with what happened in the 2016 election. Which is why we are here today. It is now undisputed by our intelligence agencies that russia invaded our democracy, not with bombs jets or tanks but with a sophisticated Cyber Mission to undermine the underpinnings of our very democracy. A democracy that hundreds of thousands of men and women have lost their lives on the battlefield defending both our democracy and democracies abroad. A democracy that four little girls innocence at the height of the Civil Rights Movement lost their lives in a church in birmingham, alabama. Because people were trying to hold on to that democracy, and make sure that it was extended to people in this country. So lets remember why were here today. Lets remember the words of dan coats, former director of the National Intelligence agency, who served in the senate, well respected. My colleagues on both sides of the aisle, he said that in fact russia has been emboldened to do this again. And i did
Many folks have recently criticized U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s position against student loan debt forgiveness (Aug. 18). As a college graduate with multiple degrees and numerous student loans, I could not be happier with his vote. When we all entered college, we chose a degree in the field that we wanted to work in. I […]