Satunch Trump supporter, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., literally got the boot on Monday when he tried to sit in on the testimony of a Fiona Hill, former top National Security Council expert on Russia who was appearing on Capitol Hill as part of the House impeachment inquiry into the president.
Gaetz, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, attempted to attend the testimony of Hill, but was told that because he was not a member of the House Intelligence Committee that he had to leave. The House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees are conducting the impeachment inquiry into Trump.
A frustrated Gaetz aired his disappointment to reporters after being told he was not welcome to sit in on the hearing, venting his anger over what he says are “selective leaks” by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and questioning why he was not allowed to be present during Hill’s testimony. Gaetz added that the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was involved in the impeachment inquiry.
“It’s not like I’m on agriculture,” Gaetz said. “What are the Democrats so afraid of?”
A visibly annoyed Gaetz followed his comments with a tweet calling the impeachment inquiry a kangaroo court and using one of Trump’s favorite nicknames for the intelligence committee chairman, “Shifty Schiff.”
“Judiciary Chairman [Jerry Nadler] claimed to have begun the impeachment inquiry weeks ago,” Gaetz tweeted. “Now, his own Judiciary members aren’t even allowed to participate in it. And yes – my constituents want me actively involved in stopping the #KangarooCourtCoup run by Shifty Schiff.”
Republicans Rally Around Trump
Other Republicans closely aligned with Trump continued on Monday to complain about Schiff and his handling of the impeachment inquiry – with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, also lambasting the California Democrat for excluding some congressional Republicans from the testimonies and for leaking “cherry-picked” information from the closed-door hearings to the press.
“She was going to come voluntarily but he’s going to subpoena her I believe so he can ask certain questions and again keep those secret except for the certain things that he wants to leak, the cherry-picked information to the American people,” Jordan said of Schiff before Hill appeared on Capitol Hill to testify. “The tragedy here and the crime here is that the American people don’t get to see what’s going on in these sessions,” Jordan said.
Hill’s testimony comes ahead of a planned Thursday appearance by Gordon Sondland, Trump’s hand-picked Ambassador to the European Union, and follows the revelation of a cache of text messages from top envoys, which have provided a vivid account of their work acting as intermediaries around the time Trump urged Ukraine’s new president, Volodymr Zelenskiy, to start investigations into a company linked to the family of a chief Democratic presidential rival, Joe Biden.
One witness who may not be called before Congress is the still anonymous government whistleblower who touched off the impeachment inquiry. Top Democrats say testimony and evidence coming in from other witnesses, and even the president himself, are backing up the whistleblower’s account of what transpired during Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelenskiy.
Schiff said Sunday, “We don’t need the whistleblower, who wasn’t on the call, to tell us what took place during the call. We have the best evidence of that.” He added it “may not be necessary” to reveal the whistleblower’s identity as the House gathers evidence.
“Our primary interest right now is making sure that that person is protected,” Schiff said.
Gerald Nadler has no authority to open an impeachment inquiry, without a majority of the House given him permission. This is equivalent of starting Coup and any house member can sit in at any time, unless it was as caucus for one party.
I like to call him SCHITTY SCHIFF … he is a pile of EXCREMENT ! This entire impeachment FARCE is a TOTALLY ILLEGAL ACT ! Why are the Democrat SOBs afraid to tell the TRUTH and put every thing out in the open ?
I for one want to know the name of the whistle-blower. And I think this is a made-up story so they have a reason to investigate the people close to Trump. Just like the Russia crap Hillerys camp fabricated. Who was prosecuted for that? A lie that cost our country millions of dollars that could have been spent elsewhere. They did get some of Trump’s people on stuff that did not relate to the probe. That is what they are doing now trying to force people to lie for them in order to get Trump. Don’t they know by now the only way they will be free of President Trump is if he is voted out? He is not doing anything against the law or our constitution. They are trying to poison people’s minds against Trump and they are planting seeds and hoping they will grow. But anyone with any common sense will not be swayed by this nonsense.
An empty DRUM ALWAYS makes more NOISE than a full one. this is how Nancy and her kind are working. Planting FALSE news and believe the public will take this as gospel.
VOTE RED …If it weren’t for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today including Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place. CLAPPER’S OWN CONFESSION
AMERICANS WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA FROM THE EVIL CRIMINAL ACTS OF DEMOCRATS………………………..TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2020, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
The democrats need to get over 2016 and work to have a candidate worth noting for I 2020.
Go ahead
SCHIIFF YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR THIS -YOU BET YOUR LIFE. YOU DAMN DIRT BAG. YES PEOPLE WE HAVE A DIRTY POLITICIAN HERE RIGHT IN YOUR FACE ALONG WITH PELOSI ALSO. SCHIFF IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. YOU CAN’T TRUST THE BASS–ARD.
Deep State traitors are everywhere! The evil corrupted to the core liberal demonrat Commie Nazi’s party, minions, useful idiots and worst of all, the RINOs(Bolton, McConnell, Lee, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Toomey, Wicker, Blunt, Graham, Collins, Gowdy, Mutt Romney, Rubio and you know the rest of the traitors ) they’re just as bad! Drain the rat infested swamp, President Trump! Prevent the coup from happening and prosecute to the full extent of the law all these treasonous rats of the deep state! Protect the President and the country patriots like your life depended on it!
Liberalism is a mental retardation disorder that afflicts young and old, rich and poor, cross party lines, and you know the rest. Leading the libtards are Shifflist,Bella Pelosi,Cummins,Hillary,Waters,the squad the view and worst of all the RINOs are just some of the poster girls in the godless deranged Satanist NAZI Commie Demoncrat party!Stop these traitors/weirdos from turning the US into godless shit holes like the lib run cities..
These hypocrite libs(lying sack of Schiff) don’t know the meaning of the truth! They are at it again and just as mentally deranged as the rest of the Globalists NAZI Muslim Commie Liberal Demoncrats! Deep State, Pelosi, Waters, Schumer, Hollywood, Academia, Fake News, Swamp News and you know the rest!! Expose, Boycott, Sue, prosecute and bring to justice all these lying Fake News deep state treasonous Godless NAZI commie liberal demoncrats and RINOs post-haste,Patriots! Drain the rat infested swamp President Trump!
Barbara – Your comment is right on! All of the politician’s that you have identified in your comment is so true. As for .. “going to pay for this” .. will show up during the voting in 2020!
Weeks ago I came to the conclusion that the whistle blower is a ghost figure. This character may be a conglomerate of Schiff, Dem colleagues and Deep State. This would explain some of the secrecy going on and changes in Schiff’s info. Yes, we might have a “parady” whistle blower, among other imaginary people and things. The post-modern person makes it up and demands that the world accept the fake fabrication as truth. Hello Adam Schiff!
This has become so childish and pathetic. Doesn’t it matter to anyone in the House the good things that have happened since Trump became President???