One of President Donald Trump's closest political advisers, a key combatant two decades ago in the impeachment battle against President Bill Clinton, says the White House and the Republicans in Congress are not sufficiently prepared for the investigative onslaught that he anticipates will dominate
“We’re not ready,” said David Bossie, a pugnacious Republican operative who served as Trump’s deputy campaign manager and has been counseling both the White House and congressional Republicans.
Both the administration and the Republican team in Congress now clearly recognize they need reinforcements, Bossie said. Bossie has a wealth of experience in the bruising arenas of congressional investigations. In 1997, he served as the Republican’s chief investigator for the powerful House Oversight Committee, and his hardball tactics in scrutinizing Clinton’s role in the Whitewater land deal and questionable fundraising activity eventually prompted his resignation from the investigation.
To date, Bossie told ABC News, he sees an operation in need of improvement. He said he was unsatisfied, for instance, with the performances by Republicans during recent congressional hearings with the then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, and the high-profile grilling of Trump’s one-time personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.
He said he had learned from what he acknowledged was Republican overreach in efforts initiated in 1998 – efforts he himself helped orchestrate – to impeach Clinton. That effort ultimately failed in the Senate and Clinton’s popularity rose in the aftermath. Bossie said that he endorses the idea of the Mueller report being made public, “as much [of it] as humanly possible.”
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