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9 Times The Obama Administration Fought Subpoenas or Blocked Officials from Testifying Before Congress
9 Times The Obama Administration Fought Subpoenas or Blocked Officials from Testifying Before Congress
5 Jun 19 ~ By Matt Margolis
After the long and thorough, and, of course, incredibly expensive Mueller investigation, Democrats were left distraught over a lack of any crime to justify going forward with impeachment. In the wake of the Mueller report, they’ve since promised new investigations in the hopes of finding some crime to justify putting the country through a process that most don’t want us to go through just because Democrats haven’t gotten over the 2016 election. In recent weeks, stories about subpoenas being challenged and Trump officials being instructed not testify have been saturating the news and being presented as evidence of further obstruction. Most notably, Attorney General Barr faces a forthcoming vote of contempt in the House for not wanting to be a part of the Democrats’ witch hunt.
It seems as good a time as any to remind Democrats that we know their outrage is phony and that we know this is just pandering to their base, who wants to see them "resist, resist, resist" at all costs. So, I've compiled nine examples of fights over subpoenas or testimony during the Obama years. The point here is that fights between the executive branch and the legislative branch over executive privilege are nothing new. Despite the rhetoric that the Trump administration's fighting back against Democrat witch hunts being unprecedented, Barack Obama spent eight years fighting with Congress over their exercising their rights to oversight.
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Refusing to let the White House social secretary testify on party crashers scandal:
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Refusal to provide subpoenaed Solyndra documents:
White House Fires Back at 'Overbroad' Subpoena on Solyndra Documents
Justice Kagan's Obamacare conflict on interest:
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DOJ Refuses Judiciary Committee’s Request for Kagan-Obamacare Documents; Holder Then Testifies He Was Unaware of Request
White House refuses to allow political director to testify:
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White House political director refuses to testify
Treasury officials blocked from testifying on Obamacare subsidies:
Cruz slams Obama officials for refusing to testify
Ben Rhodes not allowed to testify on Iran Nuclear Deal:
White House cites executive privilege, keeps Obama adviser from testifying about Iran nuclear deal
Lois Lerner refuses to testify on IRS targeting:
Lois Lerner pleads the fifth again, doesn't testify on IRS targeting
Eric Holder refuses to provide subpoenaed Fast & Furious documents:
Obama asserts executive privilege and backs Holder over Fast and Furious
Holder held in contempt
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A trip down memory lane sometimes is eye opening. The author Matt Margolis is pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards of the left.
The Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats and especially the biased media seem to have short term memory loss. Probably due to excessive marijuana consumption. Surely, I’m sure there was no collusion or obstruction in any of those cases. Nope, not possible with those moral, constitutional, patriotic people. They've created their own reality. And they're bound to it now.
The PMS/DSA Democrat Left are not so much mad at Trump at winning as they are his successful efforts to undo the harm to the nation his predecessor accomplished while in office. For that there is unmitigated hatred for him and those that elected him.
So much for leftist lunacy there were no scandals associated with the regime of the hate America false messiah and Manchurian Candidate #44.
But then he also spewed the fantasy he was a Constitutional professor when all he was a common lecturer noted for easy grades.