Cory Booker’s ‘Spartacus moment’: Dumbest grandstanding fail of all time?
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., the self-proclaimed “Spartacus” of the United States Senate, is grandstanding like he wants to run for president in 2020. Probably because he wants to run for president in 2020.
Taking advantage of the television cameras present at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Thursday morning, Booker declared that he would violate Senate rules to release “damning” confidential documents that would derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation. He told his Senate colleagues that he understood there would be consequences for releasing “committee confidential” documents that are not supposed to be made public, as he cast himself as a hero. He characterized his decision to release the documents anyway as an act of “civil disobedience.”
“I knowingly violated the rules that were put forth,” Booker told Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “If Sen. Cornyn believes I violated Senate rules, I openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email right now.”
“This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment,” he added
But Cory Booker can’t even pull off grandstanding properly.
As it turns out, the documents “Spartacus” threatened to release at risk of expulsion from the U.S. Senate were already cleared for release Wednesday night, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, tweeted.
So Cory Booker asked to release these documents, the documents were cleared last night, and then Booker made a big show of “civil disobedience” at the Senate hearing Tuesday after he knew the documents he was threatening to release were already cleared for release.
Cory Booker's 'Spartacus moment': Dumbest grandstanding fail of all time?
Absolutely hilarious! While claiming to be be "Spartacus", he shows he is a lying Spart Ass!
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., the self-proclaimed “Spartacus” of the United States Senate, is grandstanding like he wants to run for president in 2020. Probably because he wants to run for president in 2020.
Taking advantage of the television cameras present at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Thursday morning, Booker declared that he would violate Senate rules to release “damning” confidential documents that would derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation. He told his Senate colleagues that he understood there would be consequences for releasing “committee confidential” documents that are not supposed to be made public, as he cast himself as a hero. He characterized his decision to release the documents anyway as an act of “civil disobedience.”
“I knowingly violated the rules that were put forth,” Booker told Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “If Sen. Cornyn believes I violated Senate rules, I openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email right now.”
“This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment,” he added
But Cory Booker can’t even pull off grandstanding properly.
As it turns out, the documents “Spartacus” threatened to release at risk of expulsion from the U.S. Senate were already cleared for release Wednesday night, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, tweeted.
So Cory Booker asked to release these documents, the documents were cleared last night, and then Booker made a big show of “civil disobedience” at the Senate hearing Tuesday after he knew the documents he was threatening to release were already cleared for release.
Cory Booker's 'Spartacus moment': Dumbest grandstanding fail of all time?
Absolutely hilarious! While claiming to be be "Spartacus", he shows he is a lying Spart Ass!
