It’s not just the Jan. 6 committee: Trump administration alumni are also stonewalling a congressional investigation into the governments’ response to COVID-19.
Clyburn concluded that if Navarro missed a Dec. 15 deadline for records and a deposition, “the Select Subcommittee will interpret your actions as willful noncompliance with the subpoena.”
Next! Now who else wants to fuck around?!
I fed this statement into google translate’s Blarney-to-English function:
We reject the oversight function of Congress based on a claim to divine authority. Separation of powers is a matter of human law, but Trump’s statements hold the status of Natural Law.
Wow. Navarro is more idiotic than the average Trumpanzee.
I’m getting the feeling it will be a very anxious holiday season for the T**** crime family.
Good
Navarro: "our administration’s “unprecedented and incredible coronavirus response.”
Since the response was so good, and nothing about it was bad, you’d think that he would want to crow about it. Apparently there’s plenty to hide. That on top of advice to ingest bleach, hydroxychloroquine, and everything else. Oh, and privilege resides in the hands of POTUS, not Florida retirees.
Oh, and the oversight here pertains to life and death response to a plague that has killed nearly 1,000,000 Americans in under 2 years. Damn right he shows, or is arrested.
In German you often refer to an assholey idiot as an Arsch mit Ohren (ass with ears) – which fits a whole lot of these Trumpsters.
Fun fact: for a while Haribo, who makes the gummy bears, made a gummy candy which was, in fact, a hiney with big ears:
Exactly. Trump’s statement, says Navarro, “is a direct order that I should not comply.” MAGA-ites are already living in a world where Trump is Maximum Leader, whose word is law.
Clyburn responded to Navarro on Saturday. The former Trump staffer has no valid excuse to ignore the congressional subpoena, particularly because he’s already written at length about his government work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in a recent book and press tour, Clyburn wrote.
Next verse, same as the first. A little bit louder and a little bit worse.
You know, it occurs to me that, if Jim Clyburn were to pretend to be a publishing agent, he could probably get all the testimony he wants from these clowns.
Were they gluteus-free?
Jail and fine the motherfuckers. Strength is the only think a Nazi respects. So show the fuckers who’s in charge.
I don’t see how any claim of executive privilege could apply here. This should be a slam-dunk. Refer him, charge him, trial, and in the slammer in a week.
Yes, I know the courts don’t work that fast. But this one is so proforma that it should just be a matter of filling out a few papers.
TFG going to take them all down and they are too lock step terrified to do a thing to help themselves. More popcorn, anyone?
Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who schemed with Trump to use the DOJ to overturn the election results, has said he’ll plead the Fifth in response to congressional Jan. 6 questions.
https://www.needtoimpeach.com/corruption/trump-fifth-amendment-michael-cohen/
Trump has had a lot to say about the Fifth Amendment in the past.
“You see the mob takes the Fifth,” he said. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
Another time, he said, “Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Horrible.”
Peter Navarro is almost as nutty as Michael Flynn. Almost. And Michael Flynn is bat shit nutty.
Who’s to say? (Although my guess would be they were.)
Apparently they were made for a while for Karneval – sadly, they don’t seem to make them any more. I bought some for my dad years ago and he was mighty amused.
ETA: sorry, @maximus, I missed the “gluteus” joke the first time around – way too used to the massively overused and incredibly misunderstood “gluten free” crap and read that instead of what you have written (very funny). I would have come up with a zippier answer if I’d read more carefully the first time.
I was going to give this a “rimshot” … but on second thought, that might sound bad.
They know it’s bullshit. But they also know that they can play this game, gum up the works for months, then play nice just before the jail time and fines are assessed. A system set up by and for adults was never intended to deal with middle school horseshit games, and yet, here we are.
So in our post Nuremberg cancel culture world, republicans think executive privilege is more important than freedom of speech?
That’s the hill they wanna fight and die on?
“I’m only following orders, and my boss said not to talk about it.”