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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJason Chaffetz - he's back again till he's gone again or whatever
Jason Chaffetz makes another panic move, limps back to Congress on bad foot
If youve been following the saga of Jason Chaffetz over the past two weeks and you find yourself confused, rest assured that Chaffetz is even more confused than you are. Hes gone from announcing he wont run again and suggesting he wont finish his term, to claiming hes seeking a job in the private sector, to announcing a month long leave of absence for foot surgery, to now suddenly running (or should we say limping) right back to Washington DC.
The latest development comes by way of NBC News Capitol Hill Producer Alex Moe, who just confirmed that Jason Chaffetz will in fact be back in Washington DC tomorrow (link). This comes just four days after his foot surgery, which he claimed would keep him out of action for as long as four weeks. Moe believes that Chaffetz may be returning to try to help with the latest flailing House Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare. But based on whats transpired to this point, theres a lot more going on here with him behind the scenes.
The week before Jason Chaffetz announced out of nowhere that he wont be seeking reelection, there was already intel community buzz that Russia was blackmailing him into protecting Donald Trump, and that the FBI was onto it; Palmer Report documented it here, here and here. Then when he made the announcement that he wont be seeking reelection, he insisted that he was in perfect health. But after just one day of leading the House Oversight Committees Trump-Russia investigation, he suddenly announced that he immediately needed foot surgery on a twelve year old injury, and that he would be gone from Congress for around a month.
And now suddenly Chaffetz is on a plane back to Washington DC. By all accounts he did have the surgery. But why did he announce that he would need to take a leave of absence for a month, if it was the kind of surgery where hed be sufficiently recovered to fly across country four days later? That suggests this was minor surgery and he knew it, and he was using it as an excuse to bail from Congress for a month. But whatever is causing him to make one panic move after another, its caused him to suddenly decide he needs to be immediately right back in Congress after all. Something is way, way off with the entire Chaffetz saga, and its time the major media outlets begin treating it with the proper level of skepticism.
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/jason-chaffetz-makes-another-panic-move-limps-back-to-congress-on-bad-foot/2532/
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Jason Chaffetz - he's back again till he's gone again or whatever (Original Post)
womanofthehills
May 2017
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pkdu
(3,977 posts)1. Why didnt he have the surgery when he was back in Utah for 2 weeks break?
Its all bullshit and smokescreen
Warpy
(111,277 posts)2. Ah, erm, uh, that's when he found out he needed it
and you know those Washington DC doctors aren't capable of it. He'll take his leave of absence for surgery when the committee work starts to pile up and it looks like he's either going to have to go after Dolt45 and his organization (and be politically dead) or take the honorable way out with a long, phony medical leave for a surgery that would take him out of action for 3 days, tops, after which he'd have a cast and crutches but be perfectly capable of sitting all day.
tanyev
(42,572 posts)3. Verrrry interesting.