Justice Department special counsel John Durham testified on his investigation of “Crossfire Hurricane,” the code name for the FBI’s investigation of links between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russian operatives on Wednesday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz grilled Durham in a heated exchange, saying Durham “let the country down.”
“Have you ever heard of the Washington Generals?” asked Gaetz to Durham. “They’re the team that basically gets paid to show up and lose, right?”
The Washington Generals are an American basketball team who play exhibition games against the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Durham responded, “Well, you know, I’m sure that the players who exert blood, sweat, and tears don’t view it that way.”
Gaetz shot back, “I think they do because the job of the Washington Generals is to show up every night and to play the Harlem Globetrotters, and their job is to lose, and I’m kind of wondering, it just seems so facially obvious that it’s not what’s in your report that’s telling, it’s the omission, it’s the lack of work you did.”
“For the people, like the chairman who put trust in you, I think you let them down. I think you let the country down, and you are one of the barriers to the true accountability that we need,” said Gaetz. “You are one of the barriers to the true accountability that we need.”
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