Jason Chaffetz is a Republican lawmaker who led the Benghazi and Clinton email witch-hunts in his capacity on the Congressional Oversight Committee; when he returned to Utah for a town hall meeting, he was met by thousands of angry constituents who chanted "do your job" and called on him to investigate Trump's many irregularities, from foreign interference with the election results to his refusal to release his tax returns to his many conflicts of interest.
Chaffetz told the crowd that the President isn't bound by conflict of interest rules, signalling that he would do nothing. Then he cut the meeting short by an hour and ran away.
Chaffetz was a key player in the Benghazi and email investigations that plagued Clinton, a former secretary of State under President Obama. Shortly before Election Day, Chaffetz said he believed the committee had two years' worth of material on her. Now he's facing added pressure to apply the same level of scrutiny to Trump.
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The Tribune reported Thursday's event at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, was at capacity, with police warning some would not be admitted into its 1,080-person auditorium.Demonstrators repeatedly booed when Chaffetz mentioned Trump's name, it said, and some held up signs reading "disagree" at the Utah lawmaker.
#Chaffetz hits Kellyanne Conway as "wrong, wrong, wrong" to promote Ivanka Trump's business. pic.twitter.com/RDtAi0k1f7
— Eric Bradner (@ericbradner) February 10, 2017
Cong Chaffetz Town Hall crowd chanting "Do your job!" He's having a hard time answering over crowd noise @UtahIndivisible @IndivisibleTeam pic.twitter.com/gO0BXybGy5
— Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) February 10, 2017
Protesters swarm Chaffetz town hall
[Mark Hensch/The Hill]
(Image: Eric Bradner)
