{"id":27344,"date":"2017-04-28T13:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27344"},"modified":"2017-04-28T13:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:54:32","slug":"chaffetz-goes-into-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/chaffetz-goes-into-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaffetz Goes Into Hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every time any investigation starts to zero in on Michael Flynn, the traitor who appeared with Putin and Jill Stein on RT, heads roll, people recuse themselves, or something else happens to stall the investigation.&#160; The latest to do so is Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]. even though his outward explanation appears innocent enough.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0428Chaffetz-Trump\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0428Chaffetz-Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0428Chaffetz-Trump.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was recovering in a University Hospital room Thursday after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/home\/5223005-155\/chaffetz-to-miss-votes-for-foot\" target=\"_blank\">getting foot surgery<\/a> to address complications from a previous injury.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll remain at the hospital for a few days, according to a news release from Chaffetz&#8217;s office, just as Congress is negotiating a spending bill in an attempt to avoid a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/home\/5215818-155\/govt-shutdown-health-bill-rescue-at\" target=\"_blank\">government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chaffetz expects to be sidelined for three or four weeks while he recovers from the surgery, in which 14 screws and a metal plate were removed from his foot. He had shattered several bones in his foot 12 years ago, he said, when he fell off a ladder while working in his garage. The pain recently flared up again, according to the congressman, and doctors removed the hardware to reduce the risk of an infection&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/5228090-155\/chaffetz-recovering-from-surgery\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now I have no doubt that he really had the surgery, but if you think that was really the reason for his sudden departure from Washington in the midst of investigation into Flynn, please contact me about the wonderful bridge I&#8217;m selling&#8230; cheap.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> covered this issue in two segments.&#160; In the first she shows how Trump and his Reich overreact anytime investigation of Flynn rears up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_aflynnpanic_170427\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the second, she shows <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">just how this applies to Chaffetz.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_bchaffetz_170427\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now that you see it in context, it&#8217;s quite obvious, isn&#8217;t it?<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time any investigation starts to zero in on Michael Flynn, the traitor who appeared with Putin and Jill Stein on RT, heads roll, people recuse themselves, or something else happens to stall the investigation.&#160; The latest to do so is Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]. even though his outward explanation appears innocent enough. 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Jason Chaffetz, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/chaffetz-goes-into-hiding\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}