Chaffetz threatens to subpoena ethics chief for criticizing Trump

Posted by | January 13, 2017 07:56 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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And he’s still going after Hillary Clinton.

Chaffetz, the head of the House Oversight Committee, criticized the director of the federal Office of Government Ethics on Thursday over his criticism of Donald Trump’s plan to address conflicts of interest. And he threatened to subpoena the official, Walter Shaub, if he refuses to participate in an official interview.

“He seems to be acting prematurely at best, without doing investigations or thorough looks,” Chaffetz said in an interview. “He’s rendering opinions publicly that really cause you to scratch your head. We need the Office of Government Ethics to act ethically. Ironically, that’s not what they’re doing.”

Shaub, an appointee of President Barack Obama, has been a frequent critics of the incoming administration’s ethics plans, peaking Wednesday when he called Trump’s newly unveiled conflicts of interest policy “meaningless.”

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22 responses to Chaffetz threatens to subpoena ethics chief for criticizing Trump

  1. mea_mark January 13th, 2017 at 08:35

    So it’s not ethical in GOP land to tell someone they are probably messing up before they mess up? Sounds pretty screwy to me. Do the republicans actually want the buffon to fail? Would that be ethical? Is Chaffetz acting unethically by creating an environment for the buffoon to fail, sabotaging him?

    • Larry Schmitt January 13th, 2017 at 08:39

      I don’t think we can take seriously the definition of ethics from a person who has none.

  2. Tommie January 13th, 2017 at 09:16

    Pretty soon, anyone who has something bad to say about Trump will be subpoena!

    • Buford2k11 January 13th, 2017 at 10:18

      soon, they will be going after some of us commenters…

      • Tommie January 13th, 2017 at 11:20

        I do not doubt it!!

        • Larry Schmitt January 13th, 2017 at 11:39

          They’ll never take me alive!!

          • Tommie January 13th, 2017 at 23:04

            LOL!!

          • granpa.usthai January 14th, 2017 at 00:05

            THAT’s the spirit Larry!

            now, refuse to pee until …

            • Larry Schmitt January 14th, 2017 at 00:06

              With my prostate that would never work.

  3. Angelo_Frank January 13th, 2017 at 09:28

    Chaffetz, drunk on power, has delusions of being another Joe McCarthy.

  4. Long Tom January 13th, 2017 at 09:28

    Chaffetz is a a real POS who has absolutely NO business lecturing anyone about ethics.

  5. labman57 January 13th, 2017 at 09:32

    The fascist Trump regime is shaping up pretty much as we had feared.

  6. William January 13th, 2017 at 09:41

    The Swiss get it. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/af8b0f3733c9156d51fc7edaed998e393291ae607cc5d6b642463bb41bfee2e2.jpg

    • Suzanne McFly January 13th, 2017 at 10:00

      Imagine if that was on a front page here? I could only wish.

    • Larry Schmitt January 13th, 2017 at 11:32

      It says he denies being blackmailable.

  7. Budda January 13th, 2017 at 09:51

    He’s not acting prematurely, he’s giving everyone a ‘heads up’. And just what is wrong with that Mr. Chaffetz?

  8. Suzanne McFly January 13th, 2017 at 09:59

    When is someone going to look in to what is guiding Chaffetz? He is not working for his constituents in any way, he is leading by his emotions. He obviously hates PBO and everything that he has done proves this to be true and now he is showing his devotion to PEEOTUS. Lets take a look at his “hard” drive.

  9. anothertoothpick January 13th, 2017 at 10:21

    I just called Chaffetz office and begged him to go investigate that big pile of toilet paper, that pumpkin head claimed to have spent “many hours signing” and had laid out on that podium.

    America needs to know exactly how they are getting screwed.

  10. Foundryman January 13th, 2017 at 10:26

    Well, Trump did wish his enemies a happy new year didn’t he?

    Questioning his ethics makes you his enemy. But a foreign power with a history of wanting to destroy us all steals information, giving it to a propaganda site, and interfering with our elections makes you smart.

  11. amersham1046 January 13th, 2017 at 16:16

    Without doing investigations or thorough looks,” Walter Shaub is being stonewall at every turn and now Chaffetz is bring more bricks

  12. spacegod January 13th, 2017 at 16:49

    Chaffetz seems to be EXACTLY as spoiled, dumb, and evil as he looks.

  13. Duke Woolworth January 14th, 2017 at 07:27

    Once a Jew, still a schmuck.

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