Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Chaffetz: Investigate Trump's conflicts of interest? Ha ha ha, no, I have a witch to hunt

By Laura Clawson  
Thursday Dec 01, 2016 · 12:05 PM EST

House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz has made clear his total lack of interest in investigating little matters like the president-elect drumming up business for his private property among foreign diplomats or having the same family members who are running his business sitting in on meetings with foreign heads of states. But the much-investigated email practices of someone who’s been out of government for nearly four years? That’s a top priority.

“We can’t just simply let this go,” Chaffetz told host Martha MacCallum on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” Wednesday.
“If the president or president-elect wants to pardon Secretary Hillary Clinton for the good of the nation, that is their option," Chaffetz added. "But I have a duty and an obligation to actually fix the problems that were made with Hillary Clinton.”
FBI Director James Comey, the guy who used Clinton’s email management to throw the election to Donald Trump, says there’s no there there. But by all means, let’s ignore what the actual president-elect is doing to extract personal profit from his public role to keep talking about it.

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