READ: House Impeachment Managers Want to Hear From Trump Directly | Talking Points Memo

Yeah, the Republicans don’t care anything about that. No would anything Trump say do any more than embarass them when they vote to acquit. They are not impartial jurors and never will be and never intend to be. They will be partisan then accuse the Dems of being partisan to either a) try to gain the high ground or b) excuse their own partisanship.

However, Trump may choose to testify anyway because he doesn’t care about embarassing Republicans and he likes the sound of his own voice. The point of the impeachment is to solidify the public against Trump and all the Rs who vote to acquit him when he clearly did as charged, and what he did was the worst a president can do while failing to succeed in those efforts.

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Trump is sorry but his bone spurs are acting up and he will have to dodge the request.

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Ask him why he wasn’t taken underground to safety when the Capitol was under siege a mile away. Why was he safe?

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While his duties as president are over, would his newfound “concern about distraction” from MULTIPLE ONGOING LAWSUITS be a legitimate cause for Trump to pass up on the invitation?

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This explains the C-5 traffic out of Kelly Base the last few days.

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The guy who wimped out of testifying for Mueller -preferring to lie by written report instead - is not going to voluntarily testify. Especially as he wouldn’t be able to control the questions and would be stopped if he tried to raise false accusations of election fraud.

Invoking the fifth, while his best bet, would seem pretty cowardly, I would think, to his rabid fellow coup-plotters. Trump knows when his bullshit fails, and it would fail in a court of law where he’s sworn to tell the truth.

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Why pussyfoot around with an “invitation”?

Subpoena his bloated orange ass and get him under oath.

If he takes the Fifth, make that an issue du jour for the next 1000 jours.

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If what I have been reading is correct he may not have money much longer.

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I am assuming they are only asking because they have something on him and his new lawyers will likely assume the same. He’s gonna chicken out.

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And not very sporting…

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I noticed his bank has parted ways with him. And I guess Kush.

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Wrong.

If he testifies, it’s a drinking game.

Every time he says “voter fraud”, take a shot.

Keep number for 911 handy.

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The disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached POS will agree to answer two or three written questions, under plenty of perjury.

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Clever, but it won’t go anywhere. Cue the R Senators led by Lindsey yelling about this being a perjury trap in 3,2,1…

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He may like the sound of his own voice when he controls the venue. But he’s not in control. He won’t show.

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Well played. He still won’t show.

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Trump will be nowhere within 1000 meters of anyone asking questions of him.

Especially now. And especially in Public View without the ability to overtalk and rant.

This from the House Impeachment Managers is code for saying:

“See? He’s got nothing he can say without people covering for him, speaking for him, enabling him.”

Like his entire life.

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Don’t do shots.
Just fill my glass with Irish whiskey and slowly get mellow.

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mwahahaaaaa

That’s all I’ve got

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Senate trial is not a criminal trial, it is more akin to a civil trial for due process purposes, so the House can seek to call the defendant here. If defendant’s testimony, however, would tend to incriminate him, he can assert his 5th Amendment right to refuse.

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