Posted on 01/12/2018 10:39:46 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) on Thursday denied that she ever said she was "pressured" to release private testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.
Feinstein, who is the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the transcript without consulting Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and said Wednesday that she was "pressured" to do so. On Thursday, however, she said she was not pressured and denied ever having said that.
"I made no statement to that effect," Feinstein said about being pressured. BuzzFeed reporter Emma Loop pressed the senator further, saying that there is a recording of her saying just that.
"I don't believe there are [recordings]," Feinstein told Loop. "I don't believe I said that."
Emma Loop ✔ @LoopEmma Just asked Feinstein about her comment yesterday about being "pressured" to release the Simpson transcript.
"I made no statement to that effect," she said.
Me: but there are recordings of you saying you felt pressured
"I don't believe there are. I don't believe I said that."
12:28 PM - Jan 11, 2018 956 956 Replies 3,115 3,115 Retweets 6,537 6,537 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Loop added that CNN and the Daily Beast reported Feinstein’s comments, and her office admitted as much by saying she "misspoke."
Feinstein apologized to Grassley for releasing the transcript and said she intended to talk to him but was pressured not to.
"I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me," she told reporters. "I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it."
Manu Raju ✔ @mkraju FEINSTEIN says she’s sorry to Grassley for not giving him a headsup about the release of the Fusion GPS transcript. “I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me,” she told us. “I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.”
3:12 PM - Jan 10, 2018 481 481 Replies 532 532 Retweets 929 929 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy She also said she "had a bad cold" that may have "slowed down" her thinking. It is still unclear by whom she felt pressured or why she is denying something she said that was widely reported.
Those are the innocent explanations. I’m not buying.
Amen! Removing her from the committee should happen right now.
Get the fake doc to do an analysis on dumb Diane and her abject confusion and provable lies.
Never attribute to evil what can easily be explained by stupidity...............
Unstable idiot.
One word best describes this: senile.
She’s either suffering irreversible dementia or she intentionally breached her obligations on the committee. Either way she should be permanently expelled.
Dear Di, your and Nancy’s Alzheimer’s is showing much more frequently.
Dementia/Alzheimer’s much?
Senile and stupid is no way to go through life.
“Feinstein Confirms Fusion GPS Lawyers Asked For Release Of Testimony Transcript”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3621901/posts
What did she gain DEM by releasing it?
to borrow from arch-lefty Bruce Cockburn
You’ve got anti-matter language contrived to conceal
You’ve been lying so long you don’t know what’s real
You’re a figment of your own imagination
And people see through you
84 Year Old People, as she is 84 now, should not be allowed to hold ANY public office.
She admitted something as common as a cold can slow her thinking down. I wonder if it stops completely? That's just who I want in office! I can see her campaign slogan, "Naps for everyone".
Feinstein’s Fusion confusion!
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