Posted on 08/22/2018 1:58:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) announced Wednesday that she has cancelled a planned meeting with President Trumps Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in light of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohens guilty plea and testimony.
In a scathing statement during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and in a tweet Wednesday morning, Sen. Hirono called President Trump an unindicted co-conspirator.
This president who is an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal matter does not deserve the courtesy of a meeting with his nominee, purposefully selected to protect, as we say in Hawaii, the Presidents okole, she said, employing a crass, colloquial Hawaiian term.
These are not normal times and these are certainly not the times for this committee to consider a Supreme Court nominee of this president especially a nominee who thinks the president should be immune from investigation, she emphasized in the hearing. We cannot abandon common sense in this dangerous time for our democracy so as I and others have said before we should delay this hearing of Judge Kavanaugh for many reasons.
I have cancelled my meeting with Judge Kavanaugh. @realDonaldTrump, who is an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal matter, does not deserve the courtesy of a meeting with his nomineepurposely selected to protect, as we say in Hawaii, his own okole. Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) August 22, 2018
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday on multiple charges and faces up to five years in prison.
He told the court that he violated campaign finance laws in the arrangement of payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, saying hed violated federal law "in coordination with and at the direction of a federal candidate for office," in an apparent reference to President Trump.
President Trump has since responded by dismissing Cohens guilty plea as related to campaign finance violations that are not a crime and comparing it to a campaign finance violation that was settled by the Obama administration.
Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2018
Hirono is not the only one looking to delay Kavanaughs confirmation hearings in light of the news. Several of her Democratic colleagues in the Senate have released similar statements.
After bombshell convictions of key Trump cohorts& identification of President Trump as an unnamed, unidicted co-conspiratorJudiciary Committee must postpone Kavanaugh nomination hearing. Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) August 22, 2018
Judge Kavanaughs refusal to say a POTUS must comply w a duly issued subpoena & Mr Cohens implication of POTUS in a federal crime make the danger of Kavanaugh's nomination to the SCOTUS abundantly clear.
It's a game changer & Chairman Grassley should delay confirmation hearings Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 22, 2018
Mazie Hirono, too funny, a throw-away Senator from a throwaway welfare state.
After all the crap Hawaiian pols have dish out on this Republic recently if that typhoon hits them they will be just like California and hold out their hands for US government aid.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh will now be able to enjoy the day.
Silent coup coup
Just another RAT okole puka.
Why the f is it even a state?
Good for Kavanaugh; he won’t have to listen to HI gibberish.
“The Senators are bound by the wishes of their constituents....”
Where’s the /S?
Democrats are bound by the orders of the Party. Anybody goes off the plantation is dealt with severely. It’s the party, and if one is a member of the party they party as the party tells them to party.
Yes, if not stupid, the electorate is too uninformed to be voters.
Just a useless POS.
Not surprised from the Senator of Hawaii, where the people have the lowest IQ in the world.
REALITY CHECK: Michael Cohen stupidly pled "guilty" to two counts of campaign finance violations. These are not crimes.
Oh her again ,LOL
okole
I wonder if they have a similar name for front-hole?
Maybe it’s just Hirono?
The Rats are wiling to go to the wall to stop Kavanaugh. Will they unleash the DOJ and the FBI on Mitch McConnell or some other weak links in the Senate GOP?
The Democrats would have us believe that self-financing billionaire Trump needed to conspire with his attorney to arrange a so-called campaign contribution that did not even go to his campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty to that non-existent crime because he knew that Mueller could put him in front of a predominantly Democrat jury that would convict any Republican, no matter the evidence.
Did she help her Navy scout out the Pacific Fleet’s ships and planes before the attack?
Two letters for this b*tch: F and U. And, repeat after me: Associate Justice of the SCOTUS Brent Kavanaugh.
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