Saturday at the Mid-Alabama Republican Club at Vestavia Hills Public Library, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) fielded questions about the Department of Justice’s special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election headed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Shelby was asked if he would call for an end of the “witch-hunt on President Trump,” referring to the Mueller probe.
“I like a lot of the things President Trump is doing,” Shelby replied. “I supported him. I flew down to Huntsville with him — spent an hour and a half with him. I’ve never done that before with any president. I like a lot of his policies, supported a lot of his policies, and plan to support. I think he’s doing some good things. Let’s look at Korea right now. Now, that’s all in flux. But if they can make some kind of agreement that’s meaningful and substantively there, he might be the best one to do it, and the new secretary of state.”
“If they do that, my God — I saw a CNN poll that said he had an approval of 52 percent,” he continued. “That’s unusual. The media, the Democrats, the left don’t realize and don’t want to realize they lost the election. You know this, and that’s part of the problem. A lot of it is fanned by, you know, by different people than the media. I think that at this point in time — you got a special counsel and special prosecutor out there. I haven’t seen anything out there that involved Trump, directly involved in any Russian influence of our election, that most of it has been on the periphery of people that did things that work on the campaign. I don’t see it tied to him that has anything to do with the campaign that I know of yet.”
“But I’m not a big fan of special prosecutors,” he added. “I have voted not to have special prosecutors. That all came about because Senator Sessions recused himself. Then he appointed a deputy who happened to be — let’s be honest, a real liberal prosecutor. And then he appointed Mueller. I don’t know how it’s going to wind up, but the sooner, the better.”
Shelby took a follow-up question on the topic, which pertained to Trump being responsible for the actions of his staff during the campaign.
“I got a staff,” he replied. “I can’t be responsible for everything they do. Are you kidding me?”
Watch Shelby’s entire presentation (courtesy of the Greater Birmingham Republican Women):
https://www.facebook.com/GreaterBhamRepW/videos/10151131963184949/
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and is the editor of Breitbart TV.
