In a searing editorial Tuesday, The Salt Lake Tribune urged Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to do his job and investigate, rather than copy, President Donald Trump. “It seems to work for the president of the United States, so, Jason Chaffetz may have surmised, it should work for members of Congress, too,” the newspaper wrote. “But explaining away an unpleasant occurrence by fabricating facts about those who oppose you is something the Utah congressman should investigate, not emulate.”Of course, the paper is referring to the Republican’s appearance over the weekend at a town hall event in Cottonwood, Utah, where angry constituents booed and scolded the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, chanting, “Do your job!” In the wake of the fiasco, Chaffetz chose an approach favored by Trump, claiming that the furious town hall crowd was infiltrated with paid out-of-state protesters. “Absolutely. I know there were,” he told The Deseret News, adding it was “more of a paid attempt to bully and intimidate” than a reflection of his own constituents’ feelings.

Source: Huffington Post February 15, 2017 05:00 UTC