Posted on 10/14/2022 8:57:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Donald Trump has responded after the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee officially issued a subpoena for him to testify before Congress.
Trump has reportedly said that he will accept the subpoena and is happy to testify, provided he can do it on live TV.
According to reports, Trump will agree to testify but doesn’t want the Democrats and their allies in the media to selectively edit his video testimony to make him look bad.
NYT correspondent Michael Schmidt said: “Since it became public that the House select committee planned to subpoena Trump for his testimony, the former president has been telling aides he favors doing so, so long as he gets to do so live, according to a person familiar with his discussions.”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has long-term cooperation with Trump, told CNN’s Jake Tapper:
“In terms of the subpoena, for him, that is actually one of the things that has animated him.
“He’s been talking to advisers about how, you know, he would consider testifying if they would air it live, which is also not surprising…it seems hard to imagine the committee would go for that.”
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK...................
Here is the transcript:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/maggie-haberman-trump-says-hell-testify-to-jan-6-committee-if-he-can-do-it-live-at-least-1-of-his-lawyers-on-board/
He trusts them in the sense that he trusts their stupidity would backfire on them.
Think Trump besting JEB, Cruz, Rubio, etc. in the debates.
Supposedly they were all great debaters compared to him.
If I were in Trump’s shoes it would be really hard to resist not walking up to Schitt and beating the schitt out of him.
Please, front hole...
:)
Bwah hah hah hah hah!
I’ve seen it, and the totalitarian makeup of the Jokeuary 6 committee totally fits the one in the Twilight Zone episode.
-Paraphrased from C.S.Lewis, Screwtape Letters.
Yes the nitwits on that panel and the deep state may have really overplayed their hand.
“it seems hard to imagine the committee would go for that.”
Game set match
Good for President Trump !
He’ll jerk them around and get tremendous coverage of his truths and interviews and never really testify. 😆
If they agree to live television I would suspect a McGovern dosing of drugs. Don’t eat or drink anything for 12 hours before and during the panel kangaroo court questions.
Decades TV is available over the air. I have a simple digital antenna which receives many interesting networks, among which is Decades. Check into it. You just have to add these stations in your menu settings. I also got rid of cable years ago and have saved probably several thousand dollars.
It was the first thing that came to my mind.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
As they always do............................
I think that is a huge mistake.
Trump has excellent monologue and crowd conversational skills.
Trump does not have good debating skills.
The Jan 6 Committee has had months to construct dozens of flawlessly crafted questions and accusations.
On live TV, Trump will have to instantly recognize the rhetorical traps that are being set, and he will have to convincingly rebut all of them in real time, without any do-overs.
He should ask for written questions and provide written answers.
What vagina ?
Trump’s ego won out over his brain and his lawyers.
I suspect the Dems will accept and come back with terms for the testimony hearing which Trump may or may not accept.
It’s like fishing and the dems just caught Moby Dick for their perjury trap.
UNCUT.
I rendered Rod Serling almost speechless, the crowd was roaring! Afterwards I spent 20 minutes with him one-on-one. A highlight of my life.
Good move.
He better hope they don’t take him up on that - they will set a “perjury trap”.
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