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 Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in light of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s 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 President’s 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 nominee—purposely 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 he’d 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 Cohen’s 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 Kavanaugh’s 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-conspirator—Judiciary Committee must postpone Kavanaugh nomination hearing.— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) August 22, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh’s refusal to say a POTUS must comply w a duly issued subpoena & Mr Cohen’s 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
If it was Trump’s own money, why is it a campaign financing violation in the first place?
Damned if I know; if anything it should just be a “PROTECTORATE” like Puerto Rico.
“...I’m going to be very nice to Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI). She is either a partisan hack, or she is dumb as a box of rocks....”
All of the above...plus, she’s a Post Turtle.
RAT = GOPe = UniParty = DS = Communist
Screw all this BS....bring on the vote.
MAGA!
Excellent point.
I am sure she will be too proud to accept money from an “un-indicted co-conspirator” in about a week.
Poi!!
(Well it’s the only Hawaiian I know except for Merry Christmas which takes too much effort to try to type)
Fat Drama Queen from Hawaii. She could lose 200 pounds.
The violation is not really the issue. It is the seriousness of the charge that really matters
[Enough of the theatre drama. Just bring the vote.]
And NUKE IT. NUKE IT GOOD.
She probably had to get to the buffet early or maybe some gay pride parade somewhere anyways.
yep...
[How do airheads such as Fauxahontas, Murray and this clown ever become senators? Is the electorate really that stupid?]
Well, Maxine Waters is a rep from around Los Angeles (multiple times), so yes, there are some really, really stupid people out there.
[ANOTHER Trump-hating, Hawaiian slut?! Where did they get this bimbo?]
Were you talking about Obama, Michelle or someone else....?
Ah, yes; Hirono. One of the most vapid seat warmers in Congress.
Oh, oops, Michelle’s from Chicago, no?
O.K. we’re back down to two....
This fatso LIB loser needs MEGA liposuction. Too much poisonous (according to some pinheaded professor) coconut, I guess.
[Democrats are all insane, IMO.]
I see them online pretty much every day.
I can confirm that is accurate.
“At least Inouye was a War Hero. What’s her deal?”
Tokyo Rose.
Sarah Sanders today made a statement from President Trump about the pending Hurricane headed towards Hawaii.
He knows the people of Hawaii are good people who will need help if this thing hits there......despite this idiot’s grandstanding.
But, then, why let a little thing such as caring for your constituents bother her.
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