Posted on 10/22/2022 4:54:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
With the Friday subpoena issued by the special committee of the House of Representatives to former President Donald Trump to both hand over documents and appear for personal testimony before the committee, several constitutional questions have been raised. The committee was tasked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate the events of January 6, 2021, when several people entered the United States Capitol during a protest over the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
All nine committee members voted to issue the subpoena, and threatened to charge Trump with contempt of Congress if he fails to comply. Considering that the committee filed such a charge against former Trump aide Steve Bannon and the Biden Justice Department secured a conviction, it is likely that the committee, composed of strongly anti-Trump members, would follow through with that threat.
Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi who chairs the committee, and Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming who is vice chair of the committee, issued a joint letter to Trump in which they told the former president, “We recognize that a subpoena to a former president is a significant and historic action. We do not take this action lightly.”
The letter added that the committee had compiled “overwhelming evidence” that Trump had “personally orchestrated” an effort to overturn his defeat for reelection in 2020, and that he had spread false allegations of widespread voter fraud. They also accused him of having attempted to “corrupt” the Department of Justice, and of pressuring state election officials, members of Congress, and then-Vice President Mike Pence to change the results.
“In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturn an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Yet more horse-apples spew forth from the FAKE AMERICANS. I hope Trump reams them royally.
I can believe that. When the extreme far left came up with the term, “Karen”, they were thinking about Cheney.
Thompson and his sympathies
You’ve said it, brother.
Biden got 81 million votes, but 81 million people didn’t vote for him. Maybe 50 million did, but not 81 million.
The rules and the power of the use of committee was not followed.
Pelosi thinks she is GOD. He knows she is not.
Yes, Obama is.
Satan’s spawn.
She is the most repulsive Catholic I’ve ever come across in my life… oh wait, Joe’s pretty repulsive too. Neither of them are honest Catholics. We call them cafeteria Catholics. They pick which of the Ten Commandments they want to pay attention to that day.
2 words: Executive Privilege.
Truth...
When called an election denier, I say I’m an election questioner. I don’t deny an election happened, I question the way ballots were cast, received, and counted. I also question man made climate change and Fauci science.
“2 words: Executive Privilege.”
Come on man..... that’s three words.
They can do anything they want until Jan 2. And it is likely a Dem loss on election day will just stimulate them to do anything they want. Nancy, Kinzinger, Cheney and a host of others have nothing to lose.
They took huge money from foreign sources and stole an election, with their accomplices in the Media, the DC bureaucraps and people in positions of power in every alphabet agency.
They broke their oath of office, and betrayed the nation. PERIOD.
Yes, Satan’s Spawn indeed.
This “committee” is demanding that former President Trump answer to them concerning any of his thoughts or statements. Whatever happened to three separate and equal branches of government? The Jan 6th committee has taken the powers of executive, legislative, and judicial authority without any oversight.
Has any other President in our history been so constrained by the other branches of government as Trump was during his Presidency?
Trump has a six word reply: I will see you in court!
“you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturn an election”
AlGore friken sued, all the way to the SC, to overturn his loss. 2000.
“Lez Cheney will retire to a nation that has no extradition treaty with the United States.”
Doesn’t mean anything.
Just as the nazi war criminals were hunted down, so shall those who betrayed this country.
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