Mincemeat. Rudy’s gonna be mincemeat.
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Dear Senator and Minority Leader,
There are things called subpoenas. Both the House and Senate have such inherent powers, going back to more than a century ago.
Forget about lecturing Ghouliani, direct your comments and demands for a subpoena directly to McConnell, by name, in public, out loud, and repeat regularly, about as often as TRump is now calling Mitch to b!tch.
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I figured you did, since you didn’t get all “Begone foul dwimmerlaik troll!” on my ass.
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Hell even if Rudy told us, I still wouldn’t know.
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I don’t believe that is even on the table in this situation. My understanding is they are “business” partners (financing his activities in the Ukraine basically), and he is not their criminal attorney.
Ethically, I don’t see how Guiliani could be their criminal lawyer. I know ethics don’t matter to him, but I doubt any judge is going to allow that. I mean how does that work? The prosecution calls the defense attorney to the stand as a witness to illegal activities of the accused, and the defense attorney pleads the 5th, because revealing it would incriminate him too??
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There are a lot of ways of attacking a privlage claim. The first is that Guiliani was not acting as an Attorney, the second is that these chuckleheads were not “seeking legal advise”, and the third is that they were engaging in a crime/fraud with Guilliani.
However, each require litigation, and congress wants answers. Best to simply say that the privilege does not apply, period.
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I don’t disagree, but my point was…I don’t think Guiliani is even going to claim an attorney-client privilege on these guys.
Of course, I also think there is a pretty good chance that Guiliani ends up arrested before he appears before Congress anyway. Which would demolish any such claims before he could even utter them.
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Will he bring the tapes he talked about?
What’s that? He had to cancel because the committee didn’t have an 8-track player?
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Schumer along with the 40-odd Democrats in the Senate and the 235 Dems in the House are all that stand between us and the republicans and their anarchy. Criticizing him, in cyberspace no less, for the fucking fun of it is not fucking funny. Somebody should’ve flagged for the Demon-rat shit alone.
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As if he can hear you.
So he’s a close business associate of theirs, shares the same lawyer (who used to be Trump’s lawyer), had lunch with them hours before they were arrested, and was supposed to fly to the same city they were headed to, Vienna. WTF?!? Obviously the FBI’s going to need to question him due to all this. But so would the house at this point, because of the Ukraine and Trump connection. I don’t see how the courts don’t compel him to testify. It’s self-explanatory.
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He’s not their attorney, no retainer, no privilege.
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Everyone here has been going through this for years and it’s bound to fray nerves, and Schumer hasn’t exactly been an attack dog, like ever, so give a little slack on this. Everything Dems say and do at this point should be directed towards the goal of winning back the senate and WH and turning the public against Trump and the GOP, and Schumer has to be part of that, in back rooms and in the media, is all.
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If I were the FBI, I would find out when they bought one way tickets. If it was after lunch with Guiliani, I would then look to the SDNY offices. The FBI was against Clinton there
Thanks for the unsolicited advice which if you don’t mind I’ll ignore.
I need some rest, attitude adjustment and possibly some recreation if I’m reading this right. You’ve condescended to give me unsolicited advice, so no thanks.
And no one mentioned that Rudy also was on his way to Vienna.
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It may be too late for Rudy. His friends are likely to get a sweet deal if they flip on the Cadaver.
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