Mark Penn: It's Nadler Who Is Acting Like Dictator

Jerry Nadler

By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 03 May 2019 12:01 PM

Mark Penn, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, ripped into Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. saying the congressman is “embarrassing us all.”

Penn made his comments in a column posted Friday on the Fox News website. It came after Attorney General William Barr passed on an appearance before Nadler’s House Judiciary Committee.

“Today (Nadler) has become the conductor of his own “railroad job” that is over the top and embarrassing us all,” he said.

“After Attorney General Bill Barr did not show up for his hearing on Thursday because Nadler wanted to question the A.G. in a manner reserved for inquests and investigations, Nadler then called the president a “dictator.

"I understand that Nadler is upset about the refusal of the A.G. to participate in some kind of show trial he was arranging after 5 hours of Barr’s testimony before the Senate, but to the extent anyone is acting like a dictator here it’s unfortunately Nadler. He has lost all perspective.”

He charged that Nadler “is acting like someone anointed him king.”

Penn said the final report by special counsel Robert Mueller should have closed down investigations of the president and not opened them up.

“Instead, Nadler‘s response has been to begin a coordinated plan with other Democratic committee chairs to subpoena every tax, business and other records of the president, his family, and his businesses and associates,” he said.

“Now that kind of inquisition is exactly what dictators do, especially when they are trying to use their power to destroy their political opponents.”

Poster Comment:

Maybe Nadler should take a trip back in time and have a conference with King George III about what happens to dictators.