Tag Archives: Jason Chaffetz

The Daily Beast reports: A day after getting roasted online for claiming Thanksgiving turkeys now cost $90 because of “Bidenomics,” Fox News pundit Jason Chaffetz doubled down on Tuesday by posting a picture of the bird he bought—complete with a $114 price tag. Needless to say, revealing to the world that he spent $5 per pound on an organic turkey, …

This just gets funnier and even more stupid: Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz got roasted on X for claiming he spent $90 on a Thanksgiving turkey all thanks to Bidenomics. “I mean, we went to go buy a turkey today. It was $90 for a turkey!” Chaffetz exclaimed. “It’s all a choice by Joe Biden. That is what Bidenomics is.” …

National Zero reports: Although Jason Chaffetz is whining–as Republicans are wont to do when they have no policies on which they can run–about seeing a turkey for $90 at a local supermarket, the cost of turkey dinner is actually down this year, to $61.17 for an entire Thanksgiving meal for ten people. So Chaffetz is shopping for some high-end, organic, …

“Hamas was designated as a terrorist organization in 1997, and systematically since then, Democrats more and more have been the ones who said they’re pro-Hamas. But you know what Democrats are choosing? They’re the ones that preach the tolerance. But if it’s killing a Jew, they’re just fine with it. I just cannot believe we’re at this point in our …

“Look, I don’t even believe there even should be a federal Department of Education. Let the money follow the kids. “How much better could education be in the inner cities if that money actually went to educating kids and giving the resources to those kids and creating these opportunity zones that Sen. Tim Scott talks about? “But no, it’s going …

“Under the Constitution, you don’t need to be a member of Congress to be elected the Speaker of the House. “So put Donald Trump in as Speaker of the House and he can go out and investigate everybody and he can impeach everybody. “It would make for great TV.” – Former GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz, now a Fox contributor, on …

“There is not a single state in the United States that has certified their election yet. So you know, you can have a crying Stephen Colbert putting on an act — because he is an actor — saying he was just so saddened by this, but I never saw them crying about Donald Trump. “Donald Trump, when he won, his …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE HILTON (HOST): When we see these death rates in Italy and elsewhere, how do we know that all those people actually died of coronavirus rather than, for example in Italy, they have a high rate of hospital-acquired infections. And so how do we know that these numbers are accurate? JASON CHAFFETZ (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): …

The Washington Examiner reports: Former Republican lawmaker Jason Chaffetz mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday by posing with a wooden statue of a Native American, joking that it was the Massachusetts Democrat. Warren has been criticized and made fun of for releasing DNA test results earlier this week in an effort to prove her ancestry claims. The results showed Warren …

“Republicans have lost every single bit of credibility on the idea that they care at all about debts and deficits. They can talk all they want, but when they had the chance to do it, they caved and they spent so much money it’s stunning.” – Former GOP House rep turned Fox bloviator Jason Chaffetz, ranting this morning on Fox …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends took viewers on a trip down gaslight alley on Thursday, with the show hosts scrambling to make sense of the alleged deal between Donald Trump and “Chuck and Nancy” to save DACA and punt the border wall until later. With the President doing major damage control this morning, it was left to ex-Congressman and Fox …

Mediaite reports: The irony of this one did not escape us. Monday morning on Fox Business, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz was incensed over the idea that the Senate would leave early with such a lengthy list of things to do. “It’s infuriating,” Chaffetz said. “[Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell went out in July and touted that the …

Mediaite reports: In a Tuesday Instagram post, former House Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaffetz took it upon himself to publicly shame a homeless man on the streets of New York City for the great crime of having a smartphone. Chaffetz is, FYI, the same GOP lawmaker who suggested poor Americans would be able to afford health care if they’d just …

Via Mediaite: “Republicans need to get a backbone,” Chaffetz started, defiantly. “Every time the Democrats say they need to call up Jared Kushner or Don Jr. — call up Chelsea Clinton, call up the Clintons.” “There we have an inspector general who issues a report stating an actual crime. You have Bill Clinton, the former president, taking millions and millions …

“Faced with another 100 to 200 nights a year where my wife’s by herself in Utah and I’m in a cot in Washington, D.C. – as nice as the salary is – I can’t afford to have two places and have a quality of life I’d like to have at this point. Congress is a rich man’s game. If you’re …

Confirming rumors first floated last month when he announced his resignation from Congress, today Fox News announced that they’ve hired soon to be former GOP US House Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Their press release notes that Chaffetz “will offer political analysis across Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network’s daytime and primetime programming.” Chaffetz checks out of Congress on Friday and …

The New York Daily News reports: Chaffetz is checked out. With less than two weeks left before his early exit from Congress, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) trashed President Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a no-holds-barred interview. Chaffetz — an ardent Obama critic who withdrew his Trump endorsement weeks before the 2016 election — said he thinks the …

The Hill reports: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, on Sunday said individuals leaking information to the press should go to jail. “You cannot have that happen,” Chaffetz told ABC’s “This Week,” referencing the information leaking to the press about President Trump and the probe into Russia’s meddling in the presidential election. The New York …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is planning to announce Thursday that he will leave Congress in June, according to two people familiar with his plans. Chaffetz (R-Utah) announced last month that he had “made a personal decision to return to the private sector” and would not seek reelection or …

Shocking, huh? The Washingtonian reports: According to two GOP lawmakers who have spoken to Chaffetz directly and four senior House Republican aides, Chaffetz has been telling people he’ll take on what one source calls a “substantial role” in on-air talent at Fox News Channel, possibly as early as July, amplifying whispers that Chaffetz will not finish out his current term. …