Mark Warner scoffs at Trump's threat of counter-probes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is dismissing President Trump's threats of retaliatory Senate investigations into House Democrats if they begin to probe him once they take the majority in January.

"I don't think the president can dictate to the Senate what to do to the House," Warner said in an interview with Hill.TV which will air in full Friday morning.

"If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified Information, and much else, at the Senate level. Two can play that game!" the president wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

Warner scoffed at the idea that Trump could direct the Senate, which will remain under Republican control next year, to investigate the House.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/415825-mark-warner-scoffs-at-trumps-threats-of-counter-investigations-im-not-sure-mr

You mean cocaine Mitch ain't going to do his bidding?

[Wintryjade]

1. This is fun. Something else I was thinking. At least for the last three months the Democrats have

had to tone down voice because of 2018 election and gaining some power. They have a good year and an half to say what they will. They have been released from a restraint that is often put on us as a party that the Republicans are never touched by.

So. They are talking now. This does feel good and we have smart people. Adults.

[mtnsnake]

2. Democrats should take Trump up on his bluffs because he is just as much a bluffer

as he is a fucking bullshitter.

[GoCubsGo]

3. I have a feeling that Cocaine Mitch will have no trouble throwing Spanky under the bus.

If he can benefit from doing so, it would happen in a heartbeat. He sees the writing on the wall for 2020, especially for the Senate. If he can play the hero, he will.

[OneBro]

4. A suggested, alternative response:

I would have responded that "Unfortunately, this is one of those rare occasions where Donald Trump is speaking truthfully. I have no doubt that he exercises an undue and unprecedented control over republicans in the United States Senate as this has been proven over and over again by their repeated failure to hold the President accountable for his illegal conduct."

[Bayard]

5. Snorf! I fart in your general direction......