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

I quit playing the piano before I ever started.

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Cue the raging irrationality …

“How dare they get these people to snitch on Trump”

" If it wasn’t for these damn snitches - nobody would know anything about what Trump did … this evidence should not be allowed - cause it comes from snitches … and snitches can’t be trusted"

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O perfect!

God I have to love his stupidity and his ego. “I am the team.” I am so fucking glad you are, too.

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The Narcissist in Chief is too stupid to realize that by not having an impeachment war room with a coordinated message, he’ll get far less support from allies. Because they don’t know what the friggin’ message is!!

All they can do is be reactive, following his every Tweet for guidance. Which is how Trump always thought things should work, but it’s going to take him down even faster now because there is no consistent message to shift public opinion. Speaker Pelosi’s quote that Trump would self-impeach has never been more appropriate.

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Has a fool for a lawyer appropriate here?

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I thought that was going to be paid off selling Trump’s RICO’ed assets.

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Yeah, I quit when I realized I was never going to be able to carry that thing down onto the beach and the guy with the guitar was always going to be the cool guy. Of course, it wasn’t long before I then realized the guy with the guitar was a complete jerk who made honking noises with his nose when he laughed.

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given that they’ve allowed Esper and Pompeo to completely ignore subpoenas so far, i wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the House to act to compel compliance.

And the question is “why doesn’t Schiff takes step to compel the document production that the Intel Cmte has demanded through subpoena.”

Because it involves document production, it could be a fairly straight forward case – simply apply the Watergate tapes precedent – ask the judge to compel production contingent on a review by the judge for executive privilege concerns.

Or at least it would be fairly straight forward if this was an impeachment case. But without a vote by the whole House pursuant to an impeachment inquiry, the whole thing gets much murkier, because the applicability of the Watergate Tapes precedent would become a much more significant issue. (notwithstanding Res 430)

Which might explain why Schiff has doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to get the crucial documentary… or maybe its something else.

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The White House has imposed a blanket ban on administration officials cooperating with the impeachment inquiry.

Almost.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime/whats-going-on-here-3

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Trump is supposed to be in Lexington Nov 4 to stump for his mini- me Bevin just 2days before election.

Be great if he stood Bevin up.

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I don’t think he could hold up long enough for you to get the full value. Tempting though.

I figure one more storming of the gates and he’ll be ready.

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I believe you mean ‘Does this person want to avoid prison or not?’ The WH Counsel won’t provide coverage.

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They hadn’t yet? Should be indicting Shifty Schiff and Naughty Nancy already, lock them up!

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My dad tried to give me lessons, he quit.

Mine paid me to stop taking lessons.

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He needs the optics of patriot republicans getting arrested fighting for transparency, then he’ll have them in his clutches.

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Exactly why they decided to let the republicans just do their temper tantrum, get hungry, eat, go into food coma and wander off to take a nap…

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But I just read yesterday that they were getting serious and forming a team to make a coordinated defense. Then they raided the SCIF for a pizza party.

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