Giuliani Says He Won’t Comply With Congressional Subpoena

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Testing Congress’ oversight powers, Rudy Giuliani announced Tuesday that he does not intend to comply with the congressional subpoena and will “see what happens” if the committees decide to enforce it.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1255873
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Excellent! That means Congress is well within their rights to place the sanctimonious jerk under arrest!

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Indeed. And award him one of those coveted No-bail Prizes.

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“Giuliani said previously that he’d leave it up to President Donald Trump to decide if he could comply with the subpoena or not.”

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He added to ABC News that he is no longer retaining attorney Jon Sale and that he’ll get a new lawyer if Congress does try to force his compliance.

(choking back laughter)

Rudy, are you okay, man?

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I hear Lionel Hutz is available.
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He added to ABC News that he is no longer retaining attorney Jon Sale and that he’ll get a new lawyer

Translation: Jon Sale hit the “eject” button while the plane was still right-side-up.

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Susan McDougal spent how many months on prison for refusing to testify before Congress (sorry, before a Grand Jury) , again?

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Let’s see if he has the same reply to the SDNY.

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This layman’s advice to Rudy - get yourself convicted early while Trump can still pardon you.

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Maybe they can set one of these up in DC outdoors till the Ghoul reconsiders.

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He’s trying!

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For Rudy to suggest that he will “see what happens” is a precursor for an insanity defense or alcoholism or some other inane excuse. He’s in big, big trouble.

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Damn right.

And when he does agree to cooperate, frog march him in in his stained orange jumpsuit.

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The “Contempt of Congress” case should be a slam-dunk.

Giuliani is saying that he is the judge of whether any Congressional subpoena is legitimate or not. That’s not how this works.

And if the House refers this matter to the DoJ and they “choose to not prosecute”, Barr should be impeached. (I mean, in addition to the fact that impeachment of Barr is already justified.)

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The House needs to act quickly and arrest him and hold him in contempt of Congress.
Even when he tries to lie and cover up, he exposes more and more corruption.

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I hope the suicide watch is better where he is imprisoned for contempt, as he seems…expendable.

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Oh man, why Phil Hartman? There were 100’s of other actors we could have done without.

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So much wrong with this. Let me count the ways…

  1. Only communications with a client are privileged, not those with, e.g., foreign governments
  2. Communications with a client in anticipation of a crime are not covered
  3. Rudy declared “I’m not acting as a lawyer” in an interview with the Atlantic.

Rudy would make the perfect example for the consequences of ignoring a Congressional subpoena. Can someone call the Sgt at Arms now?

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