“He is now using his office to help someone implicated in the case with ... the defense of their case. Again, it is not just unethical, it is illegal. It’s an extraordinary broadside on the rule of law,” Dem. RepMikeQuigley says of President Trump.
Whitaker thought some of the campaign finance charges against Cohen were"specious," pointing to the failed effort to prosecute former Sen. John Edwards on similar charges, according to GOP aides who were in the room during Whitaker's closed-door interview with Judiciary Committee leaders on Wednesday.
"Nadler also said that Whitaker told the committee Wednesday that he discussed whether to fire one or more US attorneys.Collins, however, said that the conversations were part of normal"personnel decisions" while Whitaker was atop the Justice Department, and there was nothing"nefarious" about those talks. He said Whitaker did not identify the attorneys who were under discussion about possible reassignment.
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