‘You’re on the Wrong Side of History’: GOP Rep Knocks Dems as Mueller Tension Turns up a Notch

by Madison Summers May 8, 2019, 12:51 pm 38.7k Views 17 Votes 26 Comments

Things are getting heated in Washington, D.C. surrounding special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report — especially now that the president is invoking “executive privilege.”

Congress members are clashing on Capitol Hill with the president as Democrats were looking to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not handing over the full, unredacted report.

“Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the Attorney General’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) slammed House Democrats for wanting Barr to release Mueller’s unredacted report.

“You cannot be in contempt for failing to produce what would be illegal to produce without a court order,” Gohmert said during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.

“You’re on the wrong side of history,” the Republican lawmaker declared to the Democrats. “And there is no joy here seeing the abuses.”

Watch the video below:

.@replouiegohmert blasts Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who want Barr to release the full undereducated Mueller Report.
"You cannot be in contempt for failing to produce what would be illegal to produce without a court order. You're on the wrong side of history." pic.twitter.com/hRmXx8mFYT
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 8, 2019

In response to the executive privilege, the White House press secretary blasted House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s “desperate ploy to distract from the President’s historically successful agenda and our booming economy.”

Sanders continued in the statement:

“The Attorney General has been transparent and accommodating throughout this process, including by releasing the no-collusion, no-conspiracy, no-obstruction Mueller Report to the public and offering to testify before the Committee. These attempts to work with the Committee have been flatly rejected. They didn’t like the results of the report, and now they want a redo.
Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the Attorney General’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege.”

Read the letter of executive privilege below:

JUST IN: As the House Judiciary Committee begins a hearing to hold Barr in contempt, Trump asserts executive privilege.
"This is to advise you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the entirely of the subpoenaed materials," DOJ writes. https://t.co/peS6PX1EpQ pic.twitter.com/EIuciUnEVA
— ABC News (@ABC) May 8, 2019

Following the assertion of executive privilege, Nadler claimed during Wednesday’s hearing that the “decision represents a clear escalation in the Trump Administration’s blanket defiance of Congress’ constitutionally-mandated duties.”

As tensions continue to escalate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also told The Washington Post earlier that day that Trump is “becoming self-impeachable.”

Watch the videos below:

Rep. Jerry Nadler: "The Department seemed open to sharing these materials with us just yesterday, This decision represents a clear escalation in the Trump Administration's blanket defiance of Congress' constitutionally-mandated duties." https://t.co/tyQwXRUqN0 pic.twitter.com/ib2UUpsm5a
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2019

Rep. Jerry Nadler: "The department abruptly announced that if we move forward today, it would ask President Trump to invoke what it refers to as a protective assertion of executive privilege… Just minutes ago, it took that dramatic step." https://t.co/tyQwXRUqN0 pic.twitter.com/yZWQWWmrL8
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2019

“[…] Take a minute to let this sink in,” Sanders told reporters outside of the White House on Wednesday, “Chairman Nadler is asking the attorney general of the United States to break the law and commit a crime by releasing information that he knows he has no legal authority to have.”

She added, “It’s truly outrageous and absurd what the chairman is doing and he should be embarrassed by his behavior.”

Correction [5/8/19, 5:43 p.m. EST]: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that President Donald Trump’s usage of executive privilege blocked the vote on holding Barr in contempt. We have corrected the error.

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George Peters

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wrong side of history, indeed. i think they are on the very wrong side of the majority of what americans need and want.they are so fixated on impeaching trump, nothing else matters. looking forward to 2020, and seeing whole kaboodle of them without a job, and hopefully in prison.

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Susan Souriolle Cox

Obviously Nadler is showing his own disdain for the president and is again attacking anyone who takes the side that Trump is not guilty of the accusations that have been bantered about by the party. He is out of his mind to continue this rhetoric. I am ashamed that our congress cannot find better things to do than all this, like help the country, work together to pass good legislation and fix our immigration that is a threat to our sovereignty . Shame on all of them!

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John Furlong

The demo maggots are on the wrong side of EVERYTHING

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Friend

“On the wrong side of history.” Meaning, following the history of Ancient Rome in sliding from a Republic into an Empire under a Cesar? Plenty of Trump’s supporters want that, far more Americans don’t

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John Guehlstorff

Hey Friend. The Monty Python skit was the perfect example of these so called “hearings” by the Nadler Tattlers. Pretty funny to watch MP. Not so funny to watch the political BS being displayed by the Nadler bunch. What ever they can do to keep the money coming in to their personal bank accounts by pretending to be servants of the people.

Question. Why do folks go to DC not well off and in the matter of a couple of years they are millionaires? Both sides of the aisle. TERM LIMITS!!!!!!

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Friend

Monty Python does a great rendition of the Democrat’s ‘Russian Collusion investigation.” https://youtu.be/H9PY_3E3h2c

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Lynne

The United States government is a circus and the players are all clowns including the potus ~ with that said ~ the American people demand a transparent government ~ the (exc)use of “executive privilege” is an abuse of power by the potus as a means to hide the truth ~ a skill honed by a long line of despicable people in government ~ with the exception of Sanders who has learned “the art of speaking alternative truths” on the job! smh~

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James

Quite obviously Nadler has become a Dictator by requesting (“demanding” ?) that the top law enforcement officer in the United States – the Attorney General – break the law in order to give him information he is not entitled to have. Nadler needs to be removed from his position as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.