{"id":37683,"date":"2019-09-18T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37683"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:10:31","slug":"republicans-on-parade-9-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/18\/republicans-on-parade-9-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 9\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" 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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/RepublicansOnParade6.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred sixty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Trump sycophant and Republican Senate hopeful, Corey Lewandowski. He is so honored for vile, aggressive, demeaning behavior, while perjuring himself before the House Judiciary Committee.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0918Lew\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0918Lew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0918Lew.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"183\"><strong>Corey Lewandowski refused to answer questions, talked over lawmakers and mocked Democrats for their investigation of President Trump. He lectured a congressman for saying the tooth fairy wasn\u2019t real, ribbed another for a failed presidential bid and<\/strong> <strong>even promoted a potential run for the U.S. Senate<\/strong>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Trump\u2019s former campaign manager, hoping to learn more about his testimony to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Instead, they got a front-row seat Tuesday to <strong>the Lewandowski Show \u2014 a performance aimed at an audience of one: his former boss<\/strong>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Trump, who was watching, applauded Lewandowski on Twitter, writing that he gave a \u201cbeautiful\u201d opening statement. But Lewandowski\u2019s defiance and disregard for Democrats\u2019 impeachment inquiry also prompted a contempt threat from Democrats.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Lewandowski, your behavior in this hearing room has been completely unacceptable,\u201d House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said. \u201c<strong>You have shown the public that the Trump administration will do anything and everything in its power to obstruct the work of the Congress<\/strong>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/lewandowski-excited-about-defending-trump-in-congressional-hearing-tuesday\/2019\/09\/17\/b4e13e30-d940-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The most complete coverage I found for this story was from Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VjzSwMMPQ68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fmr. Federal Prosecutor: Lewandowski &#8220;May Have Perjured Himself&#8221;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VjzSwMMPQ68\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lewandowsky did perjure himself, in addition to Contempt of Congress.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is more than enough for this award, his second.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/republicans-on-parade-6-20-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He earned his first on 6\/20\/2018<\/a> for shaming a 10 rear old refugee with Downs Syndrome.&nbsp; He&#8217;s Republican through and through!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred sixty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Trump sycophant and Republican Senate hopeful, Corey Lewandowski. He is so honored for vile, aggressive, demeaning behavior, while perjuring himself before the House Judiciary Committee. Corey Lewandowski refused to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/18\/republicans-on-parade-9-18-2019\/' 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-37683","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\/37683","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=37683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}