Maybe McGahn is contemplating his future and will follow John Deanâs example?
âA source familiar with McGahnâs thinkingâ says that he really wants to testify. Not even the Biggest Loser is going to be able to stop it.
Add it to the list!
Will ethics or loyalty to Dotard win out?
It might depend on whatâs included in the trove of âdirtâ in David Peckerâs safe.
Subpoena time!
We are going to have to pull the Trigger on Impeachment.
OT: Elizabeth Warren has it surrounded.
Harsh, but fair.
That should be very interesting. My guess is heâll want a subpoena before showing, but that he actually wants to tell his story to the House. I think that, deep down, he probably really hates Trump and will enjoy sticking the knife in. He may play hard to get for a couple of weeks, but not because he doesnât want to be there.
The WH Counsel is there to represent the country, not the President. He does not owe any duty of confidentiality to the President who has already waived the executive privilege claim in any case.
More importantly, there is no law that preventâs McGahn testifying. There is nothing that Trump and his cronies can threaten.
I donât think loyalty is the right word. Intimidation? Threats? Retaliation? Those are more likely to result in going along with Trump that anything the word loyalty implies.
Itâs important to remember that McGahn was the attorney for the presidency, not the attorney for Donnie Moscow. McGahn knows this. I donât think Donnie does.
It really does seem that McGahn is going to have his John Dean ââmomentâ. He has no legal rationale to resist the Congressional subpoena, and has no personal reason for self-destructive loyalty to Trump. He may be a dedicated republican, but that is no reason to fall on his sword, as he will surely be doing if he refuses Congress.
So one thing the Democrats in the House should be doing as they call for testimony from all the witnesses to Trumpâs conspiracy and obstruction is to paraphrase the parts of the supposedly exonerating Mueller report that document his conspiring and obstruction. Another incident each time they call publicly for testimony, so that eventually the message gets through that the report damns, rather than exonerates the Trumpster Fire.
Will Don McGahn be a dreamâŚor a dud?
Yeah, I know Iâm showing my age. And as far as McGahn is concerned, despite some saying that he is eager to testify, I hope they make him sweat with the realization that they are not fucking around, and also to send that message to the other Trumpsters who are going to end up in front of these committees.
Trump thinks that everyone in the U.S. government is under his personal employ. Iâm surprised he hasnât asked his appointed head of the EPA to wipe the industrial waste from his presidential ass every morning.
Actually, knowing Trump, he probably has.
Sean Haironfire and Tucker Caralarm will surely have a calm and reasoned response to Sen. Warrenâs actions.
Gee, Ralph, is it just me, or is this the stuff nearly all of us here pointed out was going to happen if Trump got elected?
I thought you were supposed to feel good when you were proven right, though.
I loved that game when I was five but I always ended up with some dude in a tux. 