Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, railed against President Trump on Wednesday ahead of a House Judiciary Committee vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not releasing the unredacted version of Robert Mueller’s report.
“Having received a letter both from — a copy of the letter the president of the United States by General Barr, a letter from the Department of Justice indicating after their purposeful collapse of the negotiations well-intentioned by the staff and the House Judiciary Committee, I can only conclude that the president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution of the United States of America,” Jackson Lee said.
“For the first time in the history of the United States, a president is now exerting executive privilege over every aspect of life that the American people desire to have information,” she said.
Jackson Lee went on to criticize Republican wishes to move on from Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Jackson Lee also recalled a long string of hearings over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s reaction to the attack and deaths of Americans in Benghazi.
“They never ceased. They never ceased going after Secretary Clinton. Getting 880,000 documents in a Benghazi hearing that went forever and ever and never found anything,” she said.
Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., stated on Tuesday the case was closed on Mueller’s investigation and went after Democrats for not wanting to accept its findings.
