Where's Schumer? Did Chuck Schumer Leave the Country in the Middle of an Election?

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
Chuck Schumer may not be minding the store.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:03)
There are rumors, and I have now two sources. Two sources who claim he is in Europe.

**John Ashbrook** (0:10)
Maybe some Democrats would want this to get out, because they don't want Schumer.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:14)
But after the year he's had, you know, the champagne region is better. A European vacation might sound like a respite. Under what circumstances, if you're the leader of your caucus in the Senate, are you even thinking about going to Europe?

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**Josh Holmes** (1:57)
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Ah, we're here at last here on the Ruthless Variety Program. Thank you for joining us. I'm Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug and John Ashbrook left to right across your radio dial as always, Michael Duncan on assignment this week. We're gonna have a hell of a fun time here because, well, there's more of the stuff that we were talking about. Debbie Dingell in particular is something that we need to get into shortly, but I understand we have a little bit of official business. Some perhaps reporting or at least one of the things that you tune into on the Ruthless Variety Program is that what meant about town? We converse with people, we get rumor mills and things like that. Things that other people, they're not reporting. You know, they're going to double source things and Democrats love to cover their tracks on their ability to maintain some anonymity. But our understanding is that Chuck Schumer may not be minding the store.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:58)
Well, that's what we've heard. And you know, Capitol Hill is a place that we've spent an awful lot of time through the years and we know an awful lot of people. And there are rumors afoot that I think come out of questions about where is he.

**Sean Hannity** (3:14)
Yeah, because of all those statements.

**Josh Holmes** (3:16)
First of all, all those statements, they came out in a unified leadership deal condemning Hasan Piker had one notable absence and that was Chuck Schumer.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:28)
Yeah, and all these official Democrats are taking the turn. We talked about it yesterday. You just mentioned it now.
His statement was not among them and everybody's like, well, why not? Well, where is he? There are rumors and I have now two sources, two sources who claim he is in Europe. You're kidding me.

**Josh Holmes** (3:50)
Right before a midterm election.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:52)
You know, I'm pretty shocked by that, to be honest with you. The amount of money he's asking people for, for SMP and everything else for Democrats. You know, they're terrible candidates in Michigan and Oklahoma and Florida and everywhere else. And then he's potentially off in Europe. Now, we have two sources on this. I have not laid eyes on the guy.

**Josh Holmes** (4:15)
I don't know, to my knowledge, anybody's ever asked the question because there's no reporting on it. But you would think the leader of the Democrat Party, a guy who is fashioning himself as being the next majority leader, if this crew of psychopaths are successful in the fall, would want to be in charge of some things.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:36)
But after the year he's had, you know, a European vacation might sound like a respite.
You know, maybe he's just, maybe he's tired. It's interesting.