The House Jan. 6 Committee subpoenaed Pat Cipollone, who served as then-President Donald Trump’s chief White House counsel, on Wednesday evening.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1422171
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1422171
Does Pat have the onions to defy this subpoena ?
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Patty Onions will have to follow Cassy Brass Nads and I’m not sure he has the bulbs.
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Attorney-client privilege is close to iron-clad, with few exceptions like an intentional waiver and the crime-fraud exception. Executive privilege is nebulous, at best, and easier to break through. Cipollone was not Trump’s lawyer; he was the lawyer for the Office of the President, and any communications with Trump not connected to Trump’s official acts would not be protected by either privilege. And if there’s a crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege, surely a court (well, maybe not this Supreme Court) would find a similar exception to executive privilege. If Cipollone resists the subpoena, all he’s interested in is delay. If this is litigated, he’ll likely eventually lose, but by then the Select Committee may well have been replaced by a new Benghazi committee.
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I’d say the January 6 Select Committee is doing one damned fine job!!!
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Patsy Baloney (not my diss: that’s C-SPAN’s own auto-translate chyron) is not going to get to tippy-toe away from testifying under oath. Not after Cassidy H’s extended testimony regarding PB/PC’s own witnessing of 1/6.
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This article reports that Pat and his wife have ten children. One of his daughters worked as a booker for Fox News screecher Laura Ingraham.
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Patsy Baloney won’t get to tippy-toe, but what will Pat’s Abalone do?
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of course he won’t
where has everybody been???
EP is extremely limited in its scope—especially for former presidents.
It belongs to the office of the presidency, not to the person in the office.
Unless Biden says it applies, Trump and Cipollone don’t have a leg to stand on.
Mostly, the committee want to hear from Ole Pat about things unrelated to his direct conversations with Trump.
Now that he’s been subpoenaed, he can comply without being skewered by TFG.
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Jan. 6 Committee Slaps Pat Cipollone With Subpoena
Backhanded with malice preferable.
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Completely O/T, but there’s still a war going on.
(When was the last Ukraine-related headline article here on TPM, by the way? Seems like it’s been a while.)
On the one hand, after throwing ungodly amounts of troops and artillery into the mix, Russia manages to claw its way to capturing Severodonetsk, which offers them a strategically-vital commanding position over … Severodonetsk. The only reason that location is so important is that Russia really, really wants it for politically symbolic reasons more than anything else.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the front lines…
That’s kinda big.
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Wednesday evening on his tv show Lawrence ODonnell called Cipollone a Rush Limbaugh “DittoHead”
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Doesn’t have to.
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Would this be happening at all, without NATO’s 300,000 trope increase?
And how are those NATO applications coming.
Do they need to check the damn birth certificates of every damn citizen?
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My wife: “So, a 26-year-old woman is exposing the entire R-party for the pussies that they are?”
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Pretty much!
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How did Ginni’s personell network for finding disloyal employees fail to expose Cassidy?
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Oh right, Vlad the Invader also now says he’s perfectly fine if Sweden and Finland join NATO, but don’t you dare actually station anything there.
Bigly strong, da?
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The word you’re looking for is “Fif”
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