Jason Chaffetz, Super Sleuth, Takes A Break

Click here for an article in The Salt Lake Tribune, by Thomas Burr, entitled "Chaffetz: I’ll probe Trump in due time, if needed."


Jason Chaffetz (Elijah Cummings, background)

Asked if he plans to initiate investigations into Donald Trump's multiple and obvious conflicts of interest, Chaffetz (chairman, House Oversight Committee) replied:

"I will when there is an allegation of wrongdoing. But he hasn't even been sworn in yet," Chaffetz said Thursday in an interview. "At least let the guy actually become a federal employee before you start screaming for investigations."

Funny, but it seems to me I recall Chaffetz saying about a week before the election that if Hillary were to be elected, he was ready to start investigations on Day One; he said he already had two years of investigations lined up and ready to go.

Here's Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee:

"For Republicans, there was no allegation too small to investigate with respect to Secretary Clinton, but now there is no scandal too big to ignore for Donald Trump," the Maryland Democrat said in a statement. "Burying your head in the sand is the opposite of robust oversight, and it diminishes the integrity of the committee and the Congress. Donald Trump's global entanglements are unprecedented, and the committee would be doing him a service by addressing these conflicts of interest now instead of waiting until after he is sworn in as president."