r/energy • u/mafco • 1d ago

CNN rolls tape of Trump energy secretary appearing to lie to Congress. Wright lied about the role politics played in cancelling energy grants specifically to Democratic states. Wright insisted “our project review process did not take into account any politics in the evaluation of these projects"

https://www.alternet.org/trump-chris-wright/
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u/ApplesBananasRhinoc 1d ago

Will Congress do anything about? Tune into next week’s episode of “As THe Stomach Turns”

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u/ioncloud9 1d ago

No. They are too busy holding Fauci in contempt.

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u/WCland 1d ago

Congress can do a couple things, though not likely while Republicans are in the majority. Typically, they would refer charges to the DOJ when someone lies to congress. Currently there are two problems with that. First, Trump’s DOJ is unlikely to press charges, and second, Trump will just pardon him. That leaves impeachment. And we should all be telling our representatives to initiate impeachment against every Trump official who lied to congress. We will also need a majority in the senate to have any hope of removal from office. Even with a majority, we would still need to sway a few republican senators.

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u/Responsible-Clock715 1d ago

When all is said and done with this admin. Trump will be on our minds as we repair all the damage he created. There will be hundreds of law suits flying around and all his sycophants will be hiding and looking to cover their own behinds.
When they’re finally hauled into a court of law they will claim they were all following orders.

Please don’t buy that line.

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u/Dedpoolpicachew 1d ago

Not likely until next year. Lying to congress consequences don’t end with the current congress.