'The chutzpah, the audacity': House Democrat hammers Republicans for badgering FBI Director Wray

13 July 2023

United States Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) on Thursday tore into House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee over their treatment of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray during his testimony on Wednesday.

Right-wing lawmakers who seek to defund the FBI as retribution for executing a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Florida Mar-a-Lago estate last August were hurling "continual questions, attacking his patriotism, his judgment," Cohen said.

"It was really amazing, the hypocrisy that was shown. The issue was weaponization of the FBI, and yet every member of this panel who was here on January 6th, 2021, knows that the government was weaponized on that day," Cohen stated. "As I said, nuclearized, to take over the government, to overthrow the government, in contradiction of the oath of office that each of us had taken. And that we've learned that certain members of this Committee went and met with Donald Trump, and that they were participating in the overthrow of our government, the nuclearization slash weaponization of our government, and yet they had the chutzpah, the audacity, the lack of integrity, to question Wray's judgment. And went on and on. And I was sorry. I came in here today and I'm sorry..."

Cohen was interrupted by Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government member and Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Chair Darrell Issa (R-California), who asked, "Is the gentleman accusing us of a lack of integrity?"

Cohen fired right back.

"Mr. Chairman, if you would ask whoever it is to shut up," he snapped.

"I'm sure the chairman will rule when it comes back," Issa replied.

Cohen was unfinished.

"I came in today and I heard some questions about your relationship with the Bar Association," Cohen continued. "Hey, you don't talk about rope and a house where a man's been hung. You don't ask about membership in the Bar Association on a Judiciary Committee where there are members who never passed the bar and aren't members of the bar. And they are members of this Committee in good standing. So we need to get beyond the hypocrisy and realize where we are and don't raise such subjects.

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