Seth Abramson and Steve Schmidt teamed up this week to shred GOP efforts to protect Trump.
True, there is a witch hunt happening but it’s not being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller – it originates in the GOP.
Salon reported about this week’s disgraceful grilling of FBI agent Peter Strzok by House Republicans:
The Senate had taken some symbolic bipartisan votes about NATO and trade earlier in the week, apparently sending a message that Trump’s diplomatic misconduct was not reflective of the entire U.S. government. Republicans in the House of Representatives said, “You want crazy? We’ll give you crazy.”
The all-day House Oversight and Judiciary Committee grilling of Peter Strzok, the counter-intelligence FBI agent who had been involved in both the Clinton email case and the early months of the Russia investigation — until he was found to have texted rude remarks about Trump to his girlfriend — was a three-ring circus. The Republicans were the clowns.
Apparently believing that their best chance of deflecting whatever special counsel Robert Mueller finds out about the Russian interference is to destroy the reputation of the FBI and the Department of Justice, GOP committee members decided to become the human version of Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. It wasn’t pretty.
Seth Abramson, took to his Twitter account to weigh in on the hearing, offering one of his strongest rebukes to date of Republicans.
“These Republican former prosecutors-cum-Congressmen are lying on national TV, over and over, about how the criminal justice system works, what’s considered ‘investigatory bias,’ FBI regs on agents having *personal* opinions, oversight mechanisms—they are shaming the American bar,” Abramson tweeted, adding: “All this to protect a lifelong criminal in business and now politics. I can’t get over it—Republicans are tossing away 150 years of political gravitas to protect a two-bit con man from facing justice for being the most traitorous horse’s ass ever to enter American political life.”
Frustrated, Abramson tapped out by retweeting a post by former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt who recently left the Republican Party.
Schmidt held nothing back when it was his turn to take on the Republican-led witch hunt.
“The American people have watched an extraordinary clinic on the rot, decay, indecency, dishonesty and corruption of the TRUMP/GOP on live TV. The malice of most questions was only outdone by their stupidity, venality and dishonesty,” he tweeted, adding: “May the stench of this disgrace long linger.”
Schmidt posted a number of equally powerful tweets regarding the Republican clown show, to include one he posted in response to a tweet by Republican witch-hunter Lindsey Graham who tweeted: “If Democrats and the FBI believe the bias displayed by Strzok and Page will not be subject to congressional oversight, they are kidding themselves. That’s delusional.”
Schmidt responded: “That wasn’t oversight and you know it. It was harassment, conspiracy theories, wackjobbery, dishonesty and demagoguery wrapped in a blanket of venality and rot. This country needs statesmen and women. You know one well. Think about stepping it up.”
The Hill reported that the push back was not limited to liberals and progressives.
Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) on Friday slammed GOP lawmakers for their behavior during a public hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok, saying “it was a humiliating day to be a Republican.”
“They behaved like children,” Jolly said on MSNBC. “This was not about getting answers from Strzok.”
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