The House Jan. 6 Committee and former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who had a front-row seat to Donald Trump’s 2020 election steal efforts, are hashing out terms for the attorney’s potential public testimony, according to ABC News.
he would only testify publicly on ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark’s role in helping Trump try to weaponize the DOJ in his bid to cling to power after the 2020 election.
Certainly can’t speak publicly about what else he knows or witnessed. Can’t have the public know too much after all.
Cipollone, who already appeared privately in front of the committee in April, reportedly told the committee that he would only testify publicly on ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark’s role in helping Trump try to weaponize the DOJ in his bid to cling to power after the 2020 election.
Um, can he do that? If the committee demands, how does he avoid repeating what he said privately, possibly under oath and definitely subject to penalty for lying to congress?
He COuLD say: “ROe v. WaDE is Established.Law”.
Has Pat always worn glasses? Or is this something new to correct all the eye rolling during his tenure as WH Chief Counsel?
“Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell’s jaw-dropping proposal in December 2020 that Trump issue an executive order directing the Defense Department to seize voting machines across the country.”
Anybody who thinks it’s over-the-top to call Trump cultists “Nazis” simply hasn’t been paying attention.
Cippolone will only talk (to a Congressional committee investigating national security issues) about what he wants to talk about - you know, because:
As the tfg would say, made for tv good looks
Not quite sleazy enough to let the country go right down the tubes, but still pretty sleazy.
From the How Dumb Is The Press Corpse Department:
Tell me again George!
I worry that the committee might be relying too much on people inside the Trump shitshow to be as candid in live testimony as they were in private, presumably videoed questioning. I really don’t see a scenario where Pat Cipollone gallops to the rescue of democracy.
Two thoughts, one, could be just raising the profile of the hearings. Keep talking about insiders that might testify. Second, raising the temp in certain quarters: “He’s going to testify??? Get me Meadows and a diet coke!”
We here all knew it was coming.
And the intramural-in-fighting-in-2016-waiting-for-purity Dems certainly should have recognized the danger.
Now tell me the Republicans felt nothing watching this child’s testimony. You’re right. Of course they didn’t.
Yes, keep these a-holes off live TV, they’ve got their own agenda and will derail the process.
I’m hoping the J6 committee isn’t that dumb, but snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is a time honored Dem tradition, so…who knows, they’ll probably put Gym Jordan on the stand.
You raise an interesting question, what is motivating Cipollone to act this way?
I agree it is clearly NOT saving democracy. But what is it? Settling scores maybe?
What would cause him to restrict the matters he will testify in public to less than he has already testified to in private? Did he plead the 5th on some of the other matters? I doubt it and think as he was not himself likely was involved in a crime likely answered all questions.
So what is his motivation for this erratic behavior?
Unlike many other Trump lawyers, he probably wants to retain his license to practice.
Thirty hours until the Hearings. It’s not a jury trial…but criming will be on a lot of people’s minds.
(on both sides of the camera).