Whatās up with that? The Republicans did this. Why and why now?
What are the implications of not appearing publicly before the Democratic-run House committee and now appearing behind closed doors before the Republican-run Senate committee?
Who are they intimidating ? Cohen or Donald ?
I think Cohen and Davis and Mueller and House Dems are trying to set-up witness tampering and intimidation in plain sight. Over the last few days I could never see how delaying his testimony was going to get Cohen out of hot water or increase his safety. So I think his delay is a bit of a smokescreenā¦I just donāt know exactly what the real game is. Now the Senate subpoenas himā¦and it probably isnāt what Mueller wants. Are the R senators trying to put a stick in Muellerās spokes?
To:
- Question him in private
- Announce to the public that he cannot be trusted to tell the truth
- Any public House testimony therefore is suspect.
Schiff didā¦and given Turtleās grip over his caucus, anything with the words āGOPers in the Senateā take on Quisling-like aspects
Itās just their way of wishing us a very merry Infrastructure Week.
Will this subpoena qualify him and his family for witness protection from the manchurian mobster? Or even if so will Trumpās shutdown prevent it from being implemented? Are those in federal witness protection even really protected from a President who iirc has authority to declassify anything he wants to?
You can bet it isnāt to get to the truth.
Frankly, I just donāt trust Cohen that much either.
The Senate better provide witness protection to Cohen and his family or Trump-Giulianiās Russian assassins (secret cells) operating in the US will take him out. Mueller is proving to be another trump enablerā¦he needs to be replaced by Eric Holder who will fully prosecute Trump!
Seems SIC is as concerned about Trump as HOC, as they should be!
Question:
However can an āintelligenceā committee be run by Republicans?
I misread. I was thinking it was the House Intel, but it is the Senate Intel Committee that issued the subpoena. My bad.
But good that theyāve issue the subpoena. Itās a good sign for the Senate going forward, even if Burr is doing it because the House investigations are going to highlight the lack of action in the Senate.
Spot on.
Trump wanted a distraction from the shutdown and the smackdown over the SOTU?
Methinks Schiff and Cummings will be taking careful note of this, and will not let it go unaddressed in some fashion. At least I hope.
interesting interview on NPR with an Atlantic Journal writer calling for impeachment to start sorting out the facts. against that backdrop, this thing with Cohen is just a weird dance between both parties and both houses of congress. there are lots people in DC who know Trump is unfit to serve. they want him gone. but they want somebody else, as in Mueller, to be the heavy so they donāt have to get their hands dirty. in this part of the dance, Cohen can say he didnāt want to appear before Congress, ābut they forced me to.ā
I have to quote the Palmer Report on this:
āBy making his statement today, Cohen got the opportunity to formally accuse Trump and Giuliani of felony witness tampering. It means he gets to educate the public about how and why this is a crime, before Robert Mueller hits them with the corresponding felony charges. It also means that if Trump goes through with his threats to accuse Cohenās father-in-law of certain unspecified crimes, the public will know to put this within the context of Trumpās attempts to intimidate Cohen out of testifying.ā
Seems like one more step in actually naming Trumpās various sins and ānormalizingā discussion about them, viz. the previously-forbidden āimpeachmentā word.
Off topic but a pretty good read. https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154175