House Dems Subpoena Top White House Officials For Impeachment Inquiry | Talking Points Memo

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So…it’ll sound sarcastic, but this is actually meant to be serious.

Has anyone anyone in the Trump administration been subpoenad and not defied it?

(not really counting Lewandowski, because that was clearly a joke)

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I’m sorry.

The evil just comes to mind looking at the visage of McConnell.

He is an unimaginably evil man

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They’ll be so many subpoenas you’re just going to get tired of them.

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put me down for a couple Andrew Jacksons…i could use the workout…

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I understand as is noted elsewhere on this site that members of the White House staff are harder to subpoena than regular Federal employees, but once the first wave of Federal employees have testified and it looks like there is definite evidence of criminal activity involving the President, it becomes very, very hard for any White House employee to resist any subpoena, nor should they want to. Whether they have a job at the end of the testimony is another matter, but if they testify honestly or if they merely assert their privilege against self incrimination, the odds of them actually going to jail are greatly diminished.

Remember no one has any true personal loyalty to Trump so every member of the White House has to make a personal calculation based on the future they hope to have.

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Important Questions

What are the quantity discounts?

If you pay a premium, can you punch with brass knuckles?

… asking for 1,000 friends

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Wonderful news. Go after each and every one of them. Let them try to stonewall. In the end, it won’t make a bit of difference. President Trump will be impeached.

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Good point.

It’s sort of like being a Wehrmacht soldier throwing himself at a hail of Allied bullets after May, 1945.

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Appropriate since he’s Trumps favorite president. He loves the Trail of tears and thinks Jackson was ā€œcleaning them outā€.

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Every day I read some Senator, adviser or Cabinet member has just about convinced Trump of the need to assemble a staff of public relations and legal experts to project a unified, coherent response to the impeachment issues. Then he does this:

President Trump on Friday dismissed the need for a bolstered team to defend him against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

ā€œHere’s the thing. I don’t have teams. Everyone’s talking about teams. I’m the team. I did nothing wrong,ā€ Trump told reporters outside the White House before leaving for an event in South Carolina.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467473-trump-dismisses-need-for-impeachment-team-im-the-team

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I’m a poor cracker who lives in a shack, but I’d drop a c-note for this fine cause. :grin:

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I have heard that Trump has on staff people I can only refer to as ā€œreality alterersā€.

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The narcissist can’t handle having people tell him what to do.

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Hit 'em high! Hit 'em low! Hit 'em from every direction!

No rest for traitors or those who enable them.

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I work with one of those every day.

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You have it backwards. True patriots support the President against this unfair scheme to illegally overthrow the duly elected President who has run a perfect administration not like inept Obama who colluded with Ukrainians while Joe Biden and his son lined their pockets. /s

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Go, Team!

(And I mean that in the best possible sense.)

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He’s also a jerk.

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Shit! There goes my piano lessons.

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