Posted on 10/15/2019 1:14:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told Fox News he will not comply with a congressional subpoena to turn over all documents related to the phone call between Trump and Ukraine central to impeachment hearings against the president, as the deadline for cooperating expires Tuesday.
Giuliani's attorney, Jon Sale, who he retained to represent him in matters relating to impeachment said his client would not abide by the subpoena "because this appears to be an unconstitutional, baseless, and illegitimate, "impeachment inquiry,"" according to a letter sent to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday.
"The subpoena is overbroad, unduly burdensome, and seeks documents beyond the scope of legitimate inquiry. Moreover, documents sought in the subpoena are protected by attorney-client, attorney work-product, and executive privileges," Sale wrote.
Giuliani also told Fox News he is parting ways with Sale, a former Watergate prosecutor, stating that unless Congress tries to enforce the subpoena, he will not be needing an attorney.
The three House committees conducting depositions this week to move the impeachment inquiry forward -- which include the Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight and Reform committees -- allege that Giuliani "pressed the Ukrainian government to pursue two politically motivated investigations against the former vice president and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for foreign aid.
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GW Bush would have been impeached by now. He would have cooperated every step of the way and said “thank you” as he was walking out the door.
Trump and Giuliani are fighters. What a refreshing change from every GOP since Ronald Reagan said, “I paid for that microphone.”
Too Much Win!
Of course, they don’t. That’s why they’re indulging in this “impeachment inquiry”. The whole thing is illegal, and gives the president zero rights. If I were Trump, I wouldn’t allow ANYONE in the administration to testify. Let them vote for impeachment. Then the p president can subpoena witnesses and have the right to all evidence against him. What they’re doing now is outrageous.
Giuliani never pressed anyone to investigate Biden. The Ukrainians contacted him though our State Department and turned evidence of the DNC and Clinton campaign’s illegal solicitation and receipt of the fake Steele dossier over to him prior to the release of the Mueller report. Included with this evidence was the additional evidence of Joe Biden’s bribing their government to have the Ukrainian prosecutor, Victor Shokin, fired before he could complete his investigation into Burisma, his son’s company. This all happened well before April 25, 2019 when Biden declare his candidacy for President.
Hopefully, this was all picked up by AG William Barr so he can do a full US investigation of this evidence.
“Couppeachment”
I like it. Is that yours?
Like!!
i thought so.
CRIMINAL SPYING
List of People illegally spied upon, criminally wiretapped, by Obama & his Ukraine Ambassador.
— POISON TREE
@RudyGiuliani
@JackPosobiec
@DonaldJTrumpJr .
@IngrahamAngle
@seanhannity
@McFaul
@dbongino
@RealSaavedra
@SebGorka
@jsolomonReports
@LouDobbs
@PamelaGeller
@SaraCarterDC
‘Atta, boy, Mr. Mayor!
Good.
Thanks for that list.
What an outrage! Just one of thousands, I realize....but surely there will be some fallout over this one factoid.
Lying fake news by the vast media-DNC-spook complex. These are NOT subpoenas, but requests. To report otherwise is deliberate falsehood for propaganda purposes to mislead the ignorant and control their base.
There are no “hearings” and there are no subpoenas.
Send them a red hot poker and let them sit on it and spin.
And if they do they will find NOTHING. NOTHING at all. That ploy has become old.
If I were Giuliani all they would find in my home would be food, a bed and a chair, maybe a lamp. Let the bastards search all the empty walls and room they want to.
The LIB seditious nitwit traitors have NO subpoena power. What pathetic losers
Go pound sand.
this is a powerful and gutsy move by Giuliani, because:
1. If the Dems fail to pursue their demand/request, it shows how powerless they are and what a sham their “investigation” really is, and
2. if the Dems DO pursue their demand/request in the courts, it’ll tie them up pretty much forever, AND move the news coverage off of Trump and onto Giuliani ...
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