In case you missed it, Tuesday was like a late Christmas for The Resistance, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein decided to publish on her website a transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee — a document that committee chair Chuck Grassley did not want to be released, calling it “confounding” that Feinstein would release a transcript of the panel’s interview with Simpson in the middle of an ongoing investigation.
The American people deserve the opportunity to see the transcript of the Judiciary Committee’s interview with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. Read it for yourself: https://t.co/yEaJLHpGdG
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 9, 2018
Like we said, liberals were ecstatic:
Diane Feinstein is a fucking hero.
That’s all.
We need MORE of this Democrats!— Amy Siskind ?️? (@Amy_Siskind) January 9, 2018
Why did she suddenly release the transcripts against the wishes of the committee chair? Apparently, she just felt like it.
Feinstein smiles while stepping into an elevator as reporters ask about her unilaterally publishing Fusion GPS transcript. “I just decided to do it,” she says.
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) January 9, 2018
That was Tuesday, though. On Wednesday, Feinstein’s story changed a bit, and she didn’t just decide to do it — she was pressured.
FEINSTEIN says she’s sorry to Grassley for not giving him a headsup about the release of the Fusion GPS transcript. “I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me,” she told us. “I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 10, 2018
She “just got pressured”?
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Who “pressured” Feinstein? https://t.co/SvRhuHCYGl
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) January 10, 2018
"Pressured"? WHO pressured her? Staff? Simpson? Democrats? Former Obama officials? FBI? Seems an important question. https://t.co/WbFy8jANc8
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) January 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/951191081416261632
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/951191585202589696
https://twitter.com/JamesHasson20/status/951192191715696640
https://twitter.com/JonTurke/status/951192151026782208
Uh huh https://t.co/qK7O9dqdYb
— Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) January 10, 2018
LOLLLLLLLL https://t.co/kJnlI3Hfcm
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/michi83/status/951187428295012352
https://twitter.com/MrBeagleman/status/951191299226587137
This seems like a huge deal: who pressured the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee so strongly that she dumped hundreds of pages of highly sensitive testimonial documents without even informing the Chairman? Surely @mkraju asked that key follow-up question, riiight? https://t.co/tHK4fPxrro
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) January 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/UnrealElijah/status/951192245910286336
So on Tuesday, she just decided to publish the transcripts on her website to the delight of The Resistance, but on Wednesday she said she was pressured to release them before she could even inform the committee chairman of what she was doing.
So, yeah … who put that amount of pressure on the senator?
https://twitter.com/nameredacted5/status/951188870128984064
Update:
Just short of an hour after his first tweet, CNN’s Manu Raju posted this follow-up:
Asked who pressured her, Feinstein says: "I wasn't pressured" without reconciling her two statements. Her office later said she misspoke and wasn't pressured to release transcript.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 10, 2018
Oh.
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BOOM: Byron York explains the Fusion GPS story and predicts the next big question
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