Saturday, November 9, 2019

Barr's response!

The New York City Bar Association on Wednesday publicly called on U.S. Attorney General William Barr to immediately recuse himself from any further Department of Justice processes related to the ongoing investigation into the Trump administration's controversial dealings with Ukraine.


88 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Despite what the Presiden said, the fact that he has not yet spoken out himself to say that the President has not committed a high risk or misdemeanor.

Secondly, he has been acting as the chief lawyer for the President.

He hasn't said anything, because The New York City Bar Association on Wednesday publicly called on U.S. Attorney General William Barr to immediately recuse himself from any further Department of Justice processes related to the ongoing investigation into the Trump administration's controversial dealings with Ukraine, or face disbarment.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Here's the latest:



1. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators "there was no doubt" what President Trump was demanding during his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.


"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where the gain would be for the president in investigating the son of a political opponent," Vindman, who was on the call, said, according to the transcript of his closed-door testimony made public Friday.



Vindman also testified that Trump administration officials delivered a clear quid quo pro message to Ukraine.



2. President Trump said he spoke to the president of Ukraine by phone in April, months before the call at the center of the impeachment inquiry.



“I have the second call, which nobody knew about," Trump said, speaking to reporters as he left the White House.. "I guess they want that to be produced also. ... I understand they'd like it, and I have no problem giving it to them."





3. Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney refused to comply with a subpoena Friday morning, informing investigators shortly before his scheduled deposition that he would not appear, citing "absolute immunity."



During a press conference last month, Mulvaney admitted President Trump withheld vital military aid to pressure Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit the president’s personal and political interests.. He has since walked back the televised statement. He would be testify under oath and he would either plead the 5th amendment or tell the truth about how the President had committed bribery.



4. Former national security adviser John Bolton's attorney, Charles Cooper, said both Bolton and his deputy, Charles Kupperman, have information concerning "national security and foreign affairs," and Bolton has information that hasn't been touched on publicly to date.



Bolton "was personally involved in many of the events, meetings, and conversations about which you have already received testimony, as well as many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed in the testimonies thus far," Cooper wrote.



Cooper made the disclosure to the House's general counsel in an effort to explain why his client needs a court order to be able to testify.



Bolton, who stepped down in September, did not appear for a scheduled deposition on Thursday because he and Kupperman are seeking a judge’s ruling on whether they're bound by the White House's directive not to appear. The White House says the pair have "absolute testimonial immunity," Cooper noted.



5. Rep. Jim Jordan, one of President Trump’s most outspoken supporters, will be one of the Republicans grilling witnesses next week when the much-anticipated impeachment hearings get underway.



Jordan was tapped to temporarily take the spot of Rep. Rick Crawford on the Intelligence Committee.



The Ohio lawmaker got the nod a day after a second man accused him of ignoring sexual abuse while working as a wrestling coach at Ohio State University.

Al Franken resigned for squeezing a boob.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

to say that the President has not committed a high crime or misdemeanor.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Remember when you and The President were demanding public hearings?,,, Well today he reversed his demands.


"They shouldn’t be having public hearings. This is a hoax,"


Scott A**hole doesn't care!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

A QUESTION FOR UNTRUTH

Hey, Ch Untruth, you've been asking me questions lately.
Here's a question for you:

Why did Bolton tell his people to stay away from Giuliani because "he's a hand grenade that's going to blow everybody up"?

Why did Bolton say that, Ch untruth?

Now, don't dance around this with a lot of words, just answer the question without a lot of palaver.

Commonsense said...

What are you afraid of James?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

What is CH afraid of?

What are YOU afraid of?

Okay, Commensa, now YOU answer the question
and don't dance around the way you usually do.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Waiting... Waiting... Waiting... Waiting

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

And while we're waiting, Ch, I clicked on your source line above for Barr's F You response and actually found nothing.

And that's exactly what Barr's response HAS been so far, I think.

"A department spokeswoman declined to comment on the demand" [to recuse or resign].

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/23/nyc-bar-association-calls-trumps-ag-william-barr-recuse-himself-or-resign

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Waiting... Waiting... Waiting ... etc.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Correction
A Department of Justice spokeswoman declined to comment on the demand.

We're still waiting... waiting... etc.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

It's gotten awfully quiet around here.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

MEANWHILE

Ex-China Trade Negotiator Wants Trump Re-Elected
November 9, 2019 at 7:46 am EST

“Donald Trump, whose trade war with China has upended global supply chains and imperilled the world’s economic growth, would be most welcomed with another four years in the White House because he is easier to read than other American politicians, said the negotiator who led China’s entry into the World Trade Organization,” the South China Morning Post reports.

“The US president’s daily Twitter posts broadcast his every impulse, delight and peeve to 67 million followers around the world, making him ‘easy to read’ and ‘the best choice in an opponent for negotiations,’ said Long Yongtu, the former vice-minister of foreign trade and point man during China’s 15-year talks to join the WTO nearly two decades ago.”

Said Long: “We want Trump to be re-elected; we would be glad to see that happen.”
______________

They want him re-elected so they can keep playing him like a violin.

Putin wants him reelected.
Kim wants him reelected.
The president of Turkey wants him reelected.
All the right wing dictators of the world want him reelected.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Quote of the Day
“I hardly knew the gentleman.”
— President Trump, quoted by CNN, distancing himself from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.

IOW, He contributed one million to my campaign to buy the office of ambassador, but I hardly knew him.

Anonymous said...

lol, Barr's response 🖕

Anonymous said...

"Hey, Coldheartedtruth, you've been asking me questions lately."

and you dodged them all pedo.

American voters said...

Because Bolton and Giuliani don't like each other. It's not that difficult to figure out.

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

What a GREAT WEEK we had !!

Record stock market performance, record employment, lot's of GREAT THINGS HAPPENING.

I see the "pastor" has followed roger over the edge. If he wants an answer to what Bolton was thinking he will have to ask Bolton. Bolton was hated on the left and now he is their great latest "hope". Can't make this shit up. If/when Bolton testifies we all know the left will then move on to their next "outrage". And what an annoying little gnat of an existence the "pastor" lives.

ROFLMFAO !!!

Brooke Singman said...

@brookefoxnews

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans call Hunter Biden, the #whistleblower, his/her sources, Alexandra Chalupa, Nellie Ohr, Devon Archer, Kurt Volker, David Hale, Tim Morrison as witnesses in the #impeachmentinquiry

guess head prosecutor, attorney, witness, HOAX leader Schiff will now decide what next happens in his "impeachment" world.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump supporters are a hoax.


President Donald Trump and many of his supporters have been calling for the outing of the Ukraine whistleblower. And one person who was wrongly identified by Trump supporters as the whistleblower, according to the Daily Beast, has received death threats.

The person wrongly identified, according to the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer, is R. David Edelman — a former staffer in the Obama White House. Sommer quotes Edelman as saying that on Thursday, “There were people threatening real physical harm, alluding to the fact that I will not live very long. That was obviously upsetting for my family.”


Sommer reports that on Thursday, “tweets with photos of Edelman’s face surrounded by circles and arrows in a picture taken from his time at the White House were racking up tens of thousands of retweets.” That photo, according to Sommer, shows Obama White House staff feeling “dismayed” after learning of the 2016 presidential election results but was wrongly described on social media this week as “Obama staffers reacting to Trump’s first White House visit.”

Edelman explained, “It had my face circled, and it said something to the effect of, ‘Here is your alleged Ukraine whistleblower.”

But Edelman, according to Sommer, cannot possibly be the Ukraine whistleblower: he left the White House in January 2017 — which was two and one-half years before Trump’s now-infamous July 25 phone conservation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Dumb fucks

cowardly king obama said...

See What Happens!” – President Trump Drops a Bombshell and Communications Director Dan Scavino Teases Major Development

For months there were rumblings that Inspector General Horowitz was going to release his report anytime on his investigation of FISA Court abuse during the 2016 election and into 2017.
And for months that news was delayed.

In May Attorney General Bill Barr appointed John Durham to review the origins of the Russia inquiry and the FBI’s surveillance activities. Just two weeks ago the Attorney General announced the investigation was now a criminal probe. And we have heard that the Durham criminal probe may have been going on for some time.

On Thursday President Trump’s online communication director Dan Scavino posted this ominous tweet – “TICK_TOCK”.

And now today President Trump said this during his presser,
“I caught the swamp. I caught them all. Let’s see what happens. Nobody else could have done it but me.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/i-caught-the-swamp-i-caught-them-all-lets-see-what-happens-president-trump-drops-a-bombshell-and-communications-director-dan-scavino-teases-major-development/

We may finally be getting close, and payback is going to be a bitch !!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott A**hole posted his latest pile of shit again and dissapeared.


Barr is going to be thrown under the bus because he won't lick Trump's asshole in public.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The left does not like war monger Bolton, but he had the good sense to oppose what Trump was trying to do with and through Giuliani because he saw that it was an impeachable offense that could "blow everybody up."

It is likely Bolton will tell the truth about how misguided he regarded what Trump was trying to do.

Retired Orrin G. Hatch said...

@RetiredOrrin

Telling 180 million Americans you're kicking them off their job-based healthcare plans, raising their taxes, and turning their healthcare into the DMV so you can give free healthcare to illegal immigrants is an interesting way to appeal to voters.

but hey all the FAKE NEWS polls have the dems trouncing Trump. Nothing to worry about.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Five-Time Draft Dodger to Lead NYC’s Grand Veteran’s Day Parade on Monday.


Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooi

thebradfordfile™ said...

@thebradfordfile

I’m beginning to think Adam Schiff has a lot more to lose if his fake “whistleblower” testifies in public than President Trump.

It’s a coup.

No joke. The chair of the intelligence committee conspired with the CIA to remove the president from office.

He is screwed.
...
Adam Schiff: "It is the ruling of the chair that the witness shall not identify employees, detailees, or contractors of the intelligence agency, or provide information that may lead to the revelation of the whistleblower."

Guess who Adam Schiff is really "protecting?"

HIMSELF

Facebook is removing any mention of the whistleblower from its platform.

LMAO.

A freaking CIA asset who is pals with virtually every Democrat leader in America and is conspiring to bring down the president is being "protected" by Big Tech.

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.

Will Chamberlain said...

@willchamberlain

Eric Ciaramella had no first-hand information in his report

There are literally zero evidentiary consequences to him not testifying

Why is this guy entitled to the sightest amount of extra protection?


Even if this charade doesn't make it to the Senate he should be made to testify there. As well as Schiff and his staff. The origins and workings of the coup attempt must see the light of day and there needs to be consequences.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Yes, he is. I wish he and his family and his administration and Republicans and all his remaining supporters would just realize how much he is hated and come to their senses about him. Do us all a favor, Donnie. Just resign!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

he left the White House in January 2017 — which was two and one-half years before Trump’s now-infamous July 25 phone conservation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Kevin McCarthy said...

@GOPLeader

House Democrats just got caught coordinating with one of Chairman Schiff's star witnesses—two days after the so-called whistleblower filed a complaint and six weeks before it was even public.

Another step in their premeditated coup.


and she lied under oath.... needs to be consequences

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Thecoldheartedtruth used to get 2,500 views a week. Since he became a buttlicker for Trump it's now 250

cowardly king obama said...

Roger Amick said...
he left the White House in January 2017 — which was two and one-half years before Trump’s now-infamous July 25 phone conservation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.


and roger he is NOT THE WHISTLEBLOWER, just someone mistakenly identified in a photograph as being Eric the WB. HIS PAST DOESN'T MATTER !!!

No cure for TDS. It will be terminal.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He is NOT THE WHISTLEBLOWER.

But he has been threatened by people like the coward who dodged the draft five times.

Catturd said...

@catturd2

Can it get any worse for Fake News media?

CBS fired the wrong person they claimed was the whistleblower.

ABC and CBS are now destroying innocent people’s careers to protect who?

- Pedophile Jeffery Epstein.

These are disgusting, sorry ass people.


and now roger is identifying people who were mistakenly identified in photographs as being someone they weren't, chasing them down, naming them and looking into their past. Can't make this shit up.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Sums it up:
"...a review of more than 2,600 pages of transcripts released this week from eight witnesses who have testified in the House impeachment inquiry over the past six weeks shows how controversy over Trump's Ukraine policy had been brewing inside the US government for months. It roiled efforts to bolster a key strategic alliance after Trump enlisted his own personal attorney to work outside normal diplomatic channels in an apparent effort to bolster his reelection chances..."

Testimony transcripts are publicly available: https://intelligence.house.gov/

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Thecoldheartedtruth used to get 2,500 views a week. Since he became a buttlicker for Trump it's now 250

November 9, 2019 at 9:02 AM



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PlayTheTrumpCard said...

@PlaysTrumpCard

There is far more reason to appoint a special counsel to investigate the deep state cabal that attacked the Presidency than there EVER was to appoint one to investigate a collusion fairy tale.
What say you @TheJusticeDept @FBI @senatemajldr?

THE OBAMA CRIME SYNDICATE

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Five-Time Draft Dodger to Lead NYC’s Grand Veteran’s Day Parade on Monday.



delusions of grandeur, alky?

i can't ever see you getting picked to lead that parade.


and here's where you stole that headline:

https://www.politicalflare.com/2019/11/five-time-draft-dodger-to-lead-nycs-grand-veterans-day-parade-on-monday/

thebradfordfile™ said...

@thebradfordfile

We have officially entered the "death threat" narrative of the ludicrous fake "whistleblower must remain anonymous as we impeach the president" charade.

How many people who made felony "death threats" were arrested during Kavanaugh hearings?

I bet it was ZERO.


and supposed "death threats" against libs are likely FAKE NEWS

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

We also learned this week that, shortly after the White House released a reconstructed transcript of Mr. Trump’s call with Ukraine’s leader, the president asked Attorney General William P. Barr to hold a news conference to say that he had broken no laws during the call. Mr. Barr declined. It may be a sign that the inquiry is testing the ties between the two men.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-asks-for-hunter-biden-and-whistleblower-to-testify-in-impeachment-probe/2019/11/09/a6751cc6-02fe-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

No,, I never saw that before. I wrote that myself.

cowardly king obama said...

Roger Amick said...
No,, I never saw that before. I wrote that myself.


You have LOST ALL CREDIBILITY. You posted that exact headline sentence WORD-FOR-WORD

Just stop it

Or if you really think this is your original thought get a comprehensive mental examination

Anonymous said...




It may be a sign that the inquiry is testing the ties between the two men.

LOL. GF.

a complete fabrication.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Two people can say the exact same thing.

Anonymous said...



heh.

bandy ree is begging lil schitt to testify next week:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/perfect-quack-psychiatrist-who-wanted-to-physically-restrain-trump-and-frog-march-him-from-office-begs-schiff-to-testify-in-trump-show-trial/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...



It may be a sign that the inquiry is testing the ties between the two men.

The opinion of the racist rodent bastard.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Gateway?????

Lmao @ you

Anonymous said...


my opinion alky?

it's what you stole from the bozo's compost word for fucking word.

you're so delusional you're unable to keep track of your own lies and plagiarism.

cowardly king obama said...

Roger Amick said...
Two people can say the exact same thing.


"Five-Time Draft Dodger to Lead NYC’s Grand Veteran’s Day Parade on Monday."

even the same punctuation, abbreviations and capitalizations

IMPOSSIBLE

As I said you have LOST ALL CREDIBILITY.

cowardly king obama said...

Roger Amick said...
No,, I never saw that before. I wrote that myself.

Anonymous said...



that's why the alky is in a nursing home.


cowardly king obama said...

rrb said...
that's why the alky is in a nursing home.


Well that is sad but he also used a capitalized "Grand" to describe the parade, just like the headline.

Full Blown Delusional or worse.

cowardly king obama said...

Latest NY Times/Siena poll

North Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary
Harris 1

Michigan Democratic Presidential Primary
Harris 0

Arizona Democratic Primary
Harris 3

Florida Democratic Presidential Primary
Harris 1

Wisconsin Democratic Primary
Harris 1

Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary
Harris 1

I think someone is running on fumes (insert her cackling laugh) roger is not having a good day

Anonymous said...



sad? not at all. the alky needs to be on lockdown.

mail order had to swear out a restraining order against him for chrissakes.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Like a new book written by an anonymous administration official, the transcripts depict a President consumed by festering grievances and an administration perpetually thrown into chaos by rash decisions -- and the tweets that announce them. Unlike that book, these recollections are provided by named individuals, speaking under the threat of criminal prosecution for lying to Congress.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Transcripts depict Trump as fickle, susceptible to flattery and prone to grudges

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/09/politics/transcripts-donald-trump-white-house-impeachment-inquiry/index.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The low IQ racist rodent bastard has nothing but personal insuts because he's just fucking stupid!♨️♨️♨️♨️♨️♨️♨️♨️

Anonymous said...



cnn.

LOL.

i don't read cnn for the same reason that i don't drink out of the toilet.*


* one of the better cnn memes i've read, and no, i didn't write it. i don't remember where i first saw it, and i will not take credit for making it up.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The author of the upcoming anonymous book about the chaos inside of the White House is quite possibly someone who is still working for the President!

CNN and The New York Times have obtained copies of the book, and the information on the President could be devastating for the President and his supporters.

Anonymous said...



why the media really is the enemy of the people:


David Burge


@iowahawkblog
Follow Follow @iowahawkblog
MoreDavid Burge Retweeted Yashar Ali 🐘
let's recap, shall we?

1 ABC spikes story on Epstein
2 ABC goes apeshit when video leaks of reporter griping about it
3 ABC hunts down suspected video leaker, now at CBS
4 CBS fires "leaker"
5 she wasn't the leaker
6 media, everywhere: *crickets*





and the new white house book written by 'anonymous'?

the person's a coward and the book belongs in the fiction section.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Since you really believe that free press is the enemy of the people, do you support banning them from reporting anything the President doesn't like?

Caliphate4vr said...


the person's a coward and the book belongs in the fiction section.


Even EJ Dion and Jennifer Rubin said he should come out and resign on Bill Maher last night.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Watch out for this


Trump’s Russia scandal and Trump’s Ukraine scandal, are the same scandal.

Collusion between the President and Vladimir Putin's regime may not be dead.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Myself I think that the anonymous writer should come out in front of the press today.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If he is a member of the administration he should resign and step forward.

Chuck Ross said...

@ChuckRossDC

ICYMI: Fiona Hill basically obliterated the Steele dossier in congressional deposition. She said:

-Steele was likely victim of Russian disinfo
-Steele would "constantly try to drum up business."
-Fusion GPS/Dems should not have hired Steele


No Russian collusion, and even the partisan, biased, dirty Mueller "investigation" couldn't find any. Now Durham has switched to a criminal investigation on the players who started it, from just an investigation.

And a prominent individual in the White House tweeted Tick Tock.

Sounds like we are getting close to some REAL NEWS !!!

Anonymous said...



-Steele would "constantly try to drum up business."

and the asshole is still at it. now he's making up shit about boris johnson.

i don't know which is more impressive -

the nerve of this guy, or that there's still a person alive today stupid enough to pay him for his shit. that's not just stupid, it's 'alky stupid.'



Commonsense said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...
Myself I think that the anonymous writer should come out in front of the press today.
If he is a member of the administration he should resign and step forward.


Assuming he exist in the first place. I'm not so sure he does.

James said...


State Department Released Ukraine Aid Before Trump Says
November 9, 2019 at 2:28 pm EST

“President Trump says he lifted his freeze on aid to Ukraine on Sept. 11, but the State Department had QUIETLY authorized releasing $141 million of the money several days earlier,” Bloomberg reports.

“The State Department decision, which hasn’t been reported previously, stemmed from a legal finding made earlier in the year, and conveyed in a classified memorandum to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. State Department lawyers found the White House Office of Management and Budget, and thus the president, HAD NO LEGAL STANDING TO BLOCK spending of the Ukraine aid.”
_______________

OH WOW! IF OBAMA HAD DONE THAT, THAT AND THAT ALONE YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE BEEN SCREAMING WAS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE!!!

Emerald Robinson said...

@EmeraldRobinson

Here's George Stephanopoulos at @ABC:

2015: "Sorry, I covered the 2016 election while giving cash to the Clinton Foundation!"

2018: "Sorry, I dined with Jeffrey Epstein!"

2019: "Sorry, ABC killed the Epstein story during 2016 election! Nothing to do with me!"

Emerald Robinson said...

@EmeraldRobinson

Do you know what's going to destroy the Democrat Party? And wipe out progressive politics in every coastal state for 100 years?

When liberal soccer moms start watching their school age girls get stomped by transsexuals in sports competitions.

John Stephen Walsh said...

@jswriter65

"Multiple witnesses to the actual phone call" which we already know the content of!

Trump releasing the transcript blew the tires of this stupid attempt at a coup. It's gonna drag on, but no one, not even the dems, believes this is anything but an attempt to overturn an election

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

“This inquiry is not, and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the President pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit, or to facilitate the President’s effort to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm,”

The house Republicans want to investigate the deep state attempt to overturn the last election. They were desperate.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Senator Barbara Boxer

.@Jim_Jordan is being put on the impeachment committee for one reason — to cover up and protect Trump, who bribed a foreign leader with taxpayer funds to benefit himself. Jordan had plenty of practice in cover-ups regarding sexual assaults at Ohio State.

Anonymous said...

Ugly .

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...


OH MY OH MY OH MY OH MY OH MY O O O
Mulvaney Goes Up Against the President
NYT 1 hr ago

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Even in a White House of never-befores, this may be one of the more head-spinning: The president’s chief of staff is trying to join a lawsuit against the president.

The decision put renewed attention on his relationship with the president.

Mick Mulvaney works only about 50 steps from the Oval Office as he runs the White House staff but rather than simply obey President Trump’s order to not cooperate with House impeachment investigators, he sent his lawyers to court late Friday night asking a judge whether he should or not.

To obtain such a ruling, the lawyers asked to join a lawsuit already filed by a former White House official — a lawsuit that names “the Honorable Donald J. Trump” as a DEFENDANT along with congressional leaders. The lawyers tried to finesse that by saying in the body of their motion that the defendants they really wanted to sue were the congressional leaders, but their own motion still listed Mr. Trump at the top as a defendant because that is the suit they sought to join.

In effect, Mr. Mulvaney hopes the court will tell him whether to listen to his own boss, who wants him to remain silent, or to comply with a subpoena from the House, which wants his testimony. That put Mr. Mulvaney at odds with some other current White House and administration officials who had simply defied the House, citing the president’s order not to cooperate with what he called an illegitimate “witch hunt.”

Mr. Mulvaney did not explain why he chose a different course, but his decision focused renewed attention on his relationship with Mr. Trump; it has been increasingly strained as House Democrats prepare to open public hearings into whether the president should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.

“It’s symptomatic of a White House that is more dysfunctional than ever — except now it’s not just chaos, the long knives are coming out,” said Chris Whipple, the author of “The Gatekeepers,” a history of White House chiefs of staff. “Everybody, including the White House chief, seems to be lawyering up.”

Mr. Whipple could not think of any precedent for a chief of staff going to court rather than obey a president’s order. “Given that Mulvaney has been willing to do almost anything for Trump, it’s remarkable that he’s asking for a second opinion,” he said.

The article continues...

LOTS OF LAWYERING UP GOING ON

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Keep an eye on Mulvaney.

Trump will throw him under the bus.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The only argument left is the absurd deep state conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump and overturn the last election.

The house Republicans are trying to bring in people who have been fabricating the deep state conspiracy and investigate the Obama administration and crooked Hillary Clinton. And the allegations against Joe Biden and his son. Schiff said that he will not allow them to distract attention from the President, and the 9 words that will be his legacy.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Schiff said "This inquiry is not, and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the President pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit, or to facilitate the President’s effort to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm,”

Commonsense said...

Schiff is just saying there's a conspericy and we are covering it up.

Anonymous said...

Blogger Commonsense said...

Schiff is just saying there's a conspericy and we are covering it up.



you can always rely on the democrats ACTUALLY doing what they accuse the GOP of doing.

cowardly king obama said...

Schiff is scared of so many things "whistleblower".

Schiff's collusion with him and other witnesses.

The optics of having a "whistleblower" having to take the 5th.

Schiff having to take the 5th.

He's also scared of the optics of testimony that backs the president so he won't allow it.

A total SHAM and it will come to light, even if questions by Republicans are the vehicles used to do it.

FANTASTIC SUNDAY !!!

Myballs said...

After all we've learned, did Roger actually call the deep state an absurd conspiracy??

Good grief, what a horse's ass.

Comey
Strzok
Page
Macabe
Weissman
Liu
Rosenstein
Brennan
Clapper
Power
Rice

To name a few, all working to undermine Trump and reverse the election. I'm really beginning to wonder if Roger is losing his mental faculties.

Myballs said...

FBI and local police in VA are investigating how 19 deceased Virginians just re-registered to vote. A worker in the county clerks office happened to recognize one of the names.

Anonymous said...

Myballs said...

FBI and local police in VA are investigating how 19 deceased Virginians just re-registered to vote. A worker in the county clerks office happened to recognize one of the names.



that's impossible.

the alky has assured us that voter fraud is a myth, and even if it did exist, which it does not, it would never be enough to (ironically) influence the outcome of an election.