Senator Mazie Hirono appeared to make the Trump administration’s case while trying to harm them in her questioning of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
According to Town Hall:
If there is one senator who is bound to say something stupid, it’s Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI). She’s from deep-blue Hawaii, so she could peddle lies and outright nonsense and not risk losing re-election. And then, there are these moments, where she obviously was confident that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was going to drop some bombshell about Trump possibly being guilty of obstruction of justice during the investigations into Russian collusion. Well, that didn’t happen.
Rosenstein did say that there were no secret recording of Trump, there was no wire, and that he was no part of a conspiracy to boot Trump, noting that the president cannot be removed under the 25th Amendment. Fine—he’s a little spotty on whether or not he read the FISA warrants on Carter Page, but that’s a separate matter. Liberal lawyer Jonathan Turley, who is also a law professor at George Washington University, noted, she pretty much made a solid defense…of the Trump administration. One of the best parts was when Hirono thought that 1,000 former DOJ lawyers saying otherwise meant something. Nope. As Rosenstein slapped her down, he noted that the DOJ has legions of lawyers, current and former…
Sen. Hirono seems to be making a case for the Administration. She just prompted Rosenstein to say that he agreed with the view that there was no evidence of obstruction of justice. She prompted Rosenstein to say that “he agrees that there was no evidence of a crime” by Trump.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 3, 2020
…Hirono pressed Rosenstein on how a “1000 prosecutors disagreed” with him. Rosenstein said “we have a lot more than 1000 former prosecutors.” He said that they did not know the full record. He did. Rosenstein said it was unfair. “Nobody was in favor of prosecution.”
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 3, 2020
Rosenstein said that he has not accused McCabe of “misrepresentations” but that he was “not forthcoming” and withheld important information. He stands by the statement that “for whatever reason” he withheld information that he (Rosenstein) had a “right to know.”
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 3, 2020
.@maziehirono just isn’t an intelligent woman.
She’s losing it because Rosenstein won’t agree with her
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 3, 2020
I mean, that’s just hilarious, but what would you expect from a lawmaker who doesn’t understand the concept of illegal immigration.
This isn’t the first time Hirono has exposed herself and likely will not be the last.
