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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Feb 22, 2019, 02:33 PM Feb 2019

Republicans blast Cummings over 'irresponsible' claims regarding Trump ethics disclosure

It’s only February, but the sniping between the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee and the top Republican members of the committee has already begun.

On Thursday, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote to Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) to complain about what he termed “extremely unfair and unsupported accusations” included in a letter Cummings sent to the White House Counsel’s Office late Friday.

In that letter , Cummings said that lawyers for President Trump “may have provided false information” to federal ethics officials about the president’s reimbursements to Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, for payments Cohen had made to an adult film actress.

The Republicans complained Thursday that Cummings had misinterpreted documents he obtained from the Office of Government Ethics and, as a result, unfairly accused the lawyers of misrepresenting facts about the Cohen payments.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-blast-cummings-over-irresponsible-claims-regarding-trump-ethics-disclosure/ar-BBTVfr8?li=BBnb7Kz

He hoped to buy her silence. How is that misrepresented?

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Republicans blast Cummings over 'irresponsible' claims regarding Trump ethics disclosure (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 OP
Nothing gets by ole Jim in the House. safeinOhio Feb 2019 #1
LOL Power 2 the People Feb 2019 #2
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