Watch GOP lawmaker get caught BS-ing about Jeffrey Epstein
The representative of the Missouri Jason Smith Gop appeared On CNN with Kasie Hunt Tuesday, and that was certainly something to see.
When he was asked if he would plan to use his position as president of House Ways and Means Committee to investigate Jeffrey Epstein, Smith claimed that the very idea was absurd.
“Well, you can use assignment powers at any time,” he replied. “It is not a common thing that I used in the way and means committee. But if I felt like it was a priority for Americans, then of course. ”
“But you have used the power of assignment with Hunter Biden,” said Hunt.
“Exactly. We have the power to use it, but this is the only time I used it,” he replied. “Epstein is not the priority of the everyday American who works 9 to 5, simply trying to put food on their table, clothes on their backs and petrol in their cars.”
A few years ago, Smith used this Same assignment in one of the A lot of dead ends In the research quixotic of the GOP for the proof of a family of Biden’s crime – a crusade that the Republicans as the president of the supervisory committee of the house James Comer refuse to abandon.
Congress Republicans are interference has Stop for the summer holidaysDancing around questions about why – after years of promise to release Epstein files – they suddenly decided that it was “not a priority”.
