It was rather rich for the so-called "whistleblowers" to come before the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee to talk about the politicization of the Justice Department, according to Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., on Newsmax TV.
It was hypocrisy for "political hacks" complaining about politicization they themselves were entertaining the committee with, Collins told Thursday's "Newsmax Now."
"[Wednesday] was just another shameful example of what the Judiciary Committee has become," Collins told host John Bachman. "When they quote 'bring in whistleblowers' – Mr. [Aaron] Zelinsky and Mr. [John] Elias especially – these were political hacks. Let's be honest about what this was."
Collins was fierce on cross examination of Elias, an Anti-Trust Division Trial Attorney at the Justice Department, exposing his previous career aspirations to be assigned detail to the House Democrats' majority when they took control in 2019 in "order to help impeach the president."
"And Mr. Zelinsky was part of the whole Mueller debacle, and he's just bitter about that, and that came across very clearly in his comments about [Roger] Stone," Collins added.
Collins said Chairman Jerry Nadler has turned the committee into a political attack group on a mission "to make the president look bad."
"Chairman Nadler has simply politicized anything he's touched," Collins said.
"There was nothing of a whistleblower nature here," he continued. "It was a disagreement. This is what's become bothersome nowadays. It's become disagreements among the agency, among folks who work under the attorney general, in believing they can input their knowledge and their political bent for what the attorney general or his deputy is doing."
Collins then noted the hypocrisy that none of the whistleblowers came forward about the politically motivated investigations of the Trump campaign and fired FBI Director James Comey.
"These people were not about justice, which is the problem I see in the Department of Justice," Collins concluded.
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Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
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