Annie Donaldson, the former chief of staff to White House counsel Don McGahn and a crucial witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, found herself blocked from replying to questions from a House panel more than 200 times because of “constitutionally-based Executive Branch confidentiality interests.”
But Trump claims that his adminstration cooperated fully (and that there was no collusion or obstruction) . . . and any number of other absurd statements.
lawsuits are fun
Tomorrow I’m going to fail to show up to work, and invoke my “corporate board-supporting strategic alignment of interests vis-a-vis ordered direction” if anyone asks. It makes exactly as much sense as this does
Lawsuits to compel McGahn/Hicks/Donaldson testimony have still not been filed. Folks can make up whatever excuses they want for this, but no one can accuse the House Dems of showing a sense of urgency here. We all know a GOP run committee wouldn’t have hesitated to get into court on stuff like this. We’ve honestly learned more about #trumprussia from GOP led hearings than Dem controlled hearings.
Leaders of Institutions used to defend institutional power. Now, we’re in the era of ‘shrug politics’.
What the heck is the difference between replying “constitutionally-based Executive Branch confidentiality interests” and “formally asserting executive privilege”?
Sure looks same to me.
And why is Toadglans so hesitent to assert executive privilege? He does everything else, whether it’s legal or not.
Some possibilities for you to consider, other than incompetence:
They’re waiting for Fall, so to have more impact
They’re waiting for Fall, so as to avoid Summer doldrums delays
They were waiting for the Epstein news to hit
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Folks, this is serious, so please stop attacking our own, attack them!
seems to me you can draw a roadmap of exactly what happened and when by all of the claims of privilege and who Chump will and won’t allow to testify. And all the docs he won’t disclose.
At this point, it is as accurate a roadmap as if you had the facts.
Assume he is guilty of everything you can think of behind each of his barricades and there it is.
Seems like a well done campaign ad or segment on a news show could just line up graphically all the things Chump refuses to show and ask the viewer to draw the only conclusion remaining.
Here’s something else to consider: s**t takes time when you go to court. Waiting just means more delay tacked on to the schedule as we run the clock out on the year and the Dems rely on a late septagenarian front runner who got clocked in a debate and whined for 2 weeks afterwards to get it together to beat Trump. Get into court quickly. Put yourself in the best position to win. Give yourself max leverage.
I’m sure you have your reasons to keep a low persona, but given your apparent insider track, it would be interesting to know how whatever that role is impacts your views expressed here.
Imagine, if you can, a world in which the Dems would actually DO something about it! Wouldn’t that be awesome?
There are two cases currently winding through the courts which will either open the floodgates and force Trump to start producing shit, or which will slam everything shut.
Until those have run their courses, little point to just adding another 15 dozen obstruction cases to the stack, as a Supreme Court finding in favor of opening the floodgates would be used to quickly get those additional cases when they pop up.
“I’m not a witch. I don’t know any witches, nor do I work for any. I cannot, however, answer a question raised in the hunt for witches, because the people I work for are entitled to privileged immunity from witch hunts. Sure, all those same people have books on witchcraft on their desks and fly about on brooms in broad daylight, but under no circumstances should they, or I, have to explain that. Or anything else.”
Out of curiosity, what are those two cases?
"If it looks like obstruction, swims like obstruction, and quacks like obstruction, then it probably is obstruction."
I’ll just post this d.
" Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Know Who The Democratic Party Is Anymore
She’s undermining her own caucus."
His tax returns, and the subpoena to Deutsche Bank and the other financial place that did his taxes for financials.
It’s been discussed here ad nauseum, hasn’t it? Or is this for the ones returning from vacation.
I noticed WaPo was beating the dying horse today.
So do all of these lawsuits go away if (yes, I’m going there) he’s reelected? The NY AG ones do not, I know. So he’d start his “second term” with all of this shit? I know there is a five-year limit but does that apply to all of the suits?
I hope Deutsche Bank’s restructuring doesn’t have anything to do with future compliance.