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Democrats planted false stories in effort to derail Biden
investigations, Grassley says
'This is the behavior of cowards,' Grassley said in
forceful speech to colleagues
Sen. Chuck Grassley
Updated: August 6, 2020 12:52pm
One
of the longest serving members of Congress in a scathing speech on Wednesday
accused Democrats of resorting to dirty tricks in order to derail
investigations into Joe and Hunter Biden’s dealings with
Ukraine. "This is the behavior of cowards. And it has to stop,"
Sen. Chuck Grassley declared.
Democrats have accused two leading senators of engaging in
disinformation, while in truth the accusers are engaging in disinformation,
said Grassley, R-Iowa, in his speech
to lawmakers.
Citing investigations being led by himself and Sen. Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, Grassley highlighted important revelations, among them
that parts of the infamous anti-Trump document, the Steele Dossier, were based
on Russian disinformation.
The current investigations by Grassley and Johnson center on
Hunter Biden’s position on the board of the Burisma company in Ukraine when his
father, Joe Biden, was vice president.
Both Grassley and Johnson have come under fire from
Congressional Democrats who have sought to discredit the investigation - thus
prompting Grassley's floor speech.
“In the last few weeks, Democrats have falsely accused me
and Senator Johnson of receiving packets of information, including tapes, from
a Ukrainian,” Grassley said. “That’s false reporting based on leaks from a
letter written by Senator Schumer, Senator Warner, Speaker Pelosi, and
Representative Schiff, which is itself based on cherry picked innuendo from
classified documents.”
In his forceful remarks, Grassley accused Democrats of
acting in bad faith.
"This nonsense of orchestrated leaks to plant stories
falsely accusing me of dealing in disinformation based on actual disinformation
that I wasn’t even privy to serves only the interest of our shared
adversaries," he said. "This is the behavior of cowards. And it has
to stop."
Elsewhere, he countered the Democrats’ claims.
“Let me be clear, my investigation with Senator Johnson is
based on how the Obama administration formulated its Ukraine policy, which then
Vice President Biden oversaw while his son was on the board of a corrupt
Ukrainian natural gas company that was under investigation,” Grassley said.
Summarizing the Russia collusion investigation that produced
no evidence of collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump, Grassley took a swipe
at the Democrats for not examining the roots of those charges.
“Maybe the Democrats don’t want to look under the hood of
the fake Russia investigation because they’d be front and center,” Grassley
said.
The pointed floor statement follows an Aug. 4 letter from Grassley and
Johnson to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.), Senate Intelligence Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.), and House
Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
“The fact that the press knew more about the content of the
allegedly classified material than we did indicates that you are more
interested in grabbing headlines and scoring political points than actually
addressing and confronting the issue of foreign interference in our elections,”
Grassley and Johnson wrote in their letter.
“We have neither sought out, relied upon, nor publicly
released anything that could even remotely be considered disinformation,” the
two wrote.
Grassley, 86, was first elected in 1980, and is serving his
seventh term in the United States Senate.
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