House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler threatened to hold Corey Lewandowski in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer some Trump-related questions.
Lewandowski sat in front of the Democratically led Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for a hearing over former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the conspiracy that Trump colluded with Russians to affect the election.
“Your behavior in this hearing room has been completely unacceptable. It is part of a pattern by a White House desperate for the American people not to hear the truth,” Nadler told Lewandowski late into the hearing. “I have been asked several times today whether the committee will hold you in contempt. It is certainly under consideration.”
“There is a far more troubling level of contempt on display here today and that is President Trump’s role in your refusal to answer questions,” Nadler continued. “The pattern of obstruction laid out in the Mueller report has not stopped. You showed the American public in real time that this administration will do anything and everything in its power to obstruct the work of the Congress.”
