Mollie Hemingway told FBN’s Stuart “Varney & Co.” that President Obama’s recent comments about “rule of law” and the Republican Party are “reprehensible” coming from him.
“It’s almost reprehensible commentary from the man who led, who instigated the Russia collusion hoax, one of the most horrific things perpetrated on this country. He refused to accept his loss, so he orchestrated this entire effort to run a coup against the incoming president,” she said.
REP. DAN GOLDMAN: What I’m optimistic about is, we take back the majority, and people like Jamie Raskin and I will be leading investigations into Trump’s corruption, into all of the Cabinet officials and this gross abuse of power. We will get to the bottom of a lot of it, and we will reveal it, and it will become transparent. I think part of what people seem to think is they give him a pass because he does it out in the open. There’s a lot he does not do in the open, and when that comes out, it is going to be very bad.
STUART VARNEY: Okay. Investigate, investigate, and then impeach. Is that what the country wants, Mollie?
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, THE FEDERALIST: I think it’s what Democrats want.
This is a guy who supported the Russian collusion hoax, and he wants a reason for Democrats to show up in the midterms.
I would say Republican members of Congress need to give their voters — particularly the members of the Republican Senate who don’t seem to be doing that much — they need to give a reason for their voters to show up in the midterms, or else all you’re going to see is impeachment proceedings and similar investigation-type efforts.
STUART VARNEY: I can’t see that being popular with the country — regardless of whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican. Does this country want a whole bunch of investigations and maybe impeachment? I just don’t think the country wants it.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: I certainly don’t think a lot of the country wants it, but those people who are going to show up in the primaries do, and the Republicans need to take it seriously.
You’ve seen it in previous elections. They’re not showing up to vote at the same level that some of the more Trump-deranged Democratic voters are.
STUART VARNEY: I love that phrase, Trump-deranged.
BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I’m saying that I’d love a Republican Party that believed in the rule of law.
I’d love a Republican Party that is conservative in some ways, that didn’t agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff, but believed in rule of law and judicial independence and empirical evidence in science, and wasn’t constantly tapping into our worst impulses.
There has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return.
STUART VARNEY: Oh, my. What do you say to that? A bit rich, isn’t it?
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: It’s almost reprehensible commentary from the man who led, who instigated the Russia collusion hoax, one of the most horrific things perpetrated on this country. He refused to accept his loss, so he orchestrated this entire effort to run a coup against the incoming president. It caused so much trouble, so many people were put in prison, and it was all based on something that he knew was a lie.
I’m glad that a wide variety of voices has condemned this lying from this former president. He did so much to destroy rule of law.
Holding people accountable for what they did to the country is not lawfare. It’s simply justice. People of all types need to speak out against what he did and how much he destroyed the FBI, the DOJ, our intelligence agencies, and our whole conception of accepting elections when you lose.
I know he’s sad that his party lost in 2016, but that’s no excuse for the real destruction he wrought on the country.
