One minute, he was on the starting line, just waiting for the green light.
Back in October, Representative Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight Committee, had big plans for 2017. After leading the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, he positioned himself to be President Clinton’s greatest foe in Congress, bragging to the Washington Post that he would spend the next four years probing her alleged misdeeds.
And it wasn’t a partisan thing! Really, it wasn’t.
… he claimed his committee would investigate President-elect Trump with equal fervor. “I am optimistic that a Trump administration would actually be cooperative,” Chaffetz said.
Trump wouldn’t release his tax returns, has hidden the great bulk of his financial information, and doesn’t believe the president can have a conflict of interest … but sure. He’d cooperate with Chaffetz. So how about we test that theory?
Amid staggering evidence of Trump’s conflicts of interest — from letting the manager of his “blind trust” sit in on meetings with foreign dignitaries to allowing his D.C. hotel to court foreign diplomats — Chaffetz has ignored calls to launch an investigation into the president-elect.
Funny. That doesn’t seem like “equal fervor.” In fact, it seems like zero fervor.
And it’s not just Democrats. The Salt Lake Tribune said Chaffetz should investigate Trump, and a Republican who sits on the committee has called out the president-elect for his business conflicts.
The requests are coming in. The conflicts of interest are piling up. Go Jason! Jason?
Chaffetz has responded to each of these requests with complete silence.
Strange. It’s almost as if Jason Chaffetz actually never had any interest in justice at all. It’s almost as if he was just a huge bloody hypocrite using his committee position to sustain a pointless and endless political war for completely partisan reasons, despite a total lack of evidence, while ignoring mounds of genuine wrongdoing that didn’t fit into his personal agenda.
Of course, maybe it’s not blatantly partisan. It could just be that “real evidence” thing. Chaffetz hasn’t seen any of that stuff in so long … he may not be sure how to handle it.