I have to admit to enjoying the grilling that Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) gives witnesses in Congress.
You can always count on him getting to a point, wrecking the witness, and being humorous along the way.
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Matt Vespa at our sister site Townhall picked up on a funny exchange that Kennedy had this week while grilling Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Wednesday. Painter has been a critic of President Donald Trump.
They were talking about cryptocurrency regulation. During his time, Kennedy expressed that crypto was a challenging subject for regulation.
Things went off the rails when Kennedy asked Painter if he thought Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) “was a crook.” Then Kennedy did that great thing he does, reading back Painter’s social media posts to him. Painter disputed that he called her a crook. He