Posted on 10/21/2022 11:27:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Former President Donald Trump was issued a subpoena Friday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The committee, which voted unanimously on the move, is demanding Trump’s testimony under oath next month as well as records relevant to the probe into the attack, which the panel noted came after weeks of him denying losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
The panel had said on Oct. 13 that it would subpoena Trump, whose supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a joint session of Congress met to confirm Biden’s victory.
“We recognize that a subpoena to a former President is a significant and historic action,” the panel’s leaders wrote Trump in a letter Friday.
“We do not take this action lightly.”
Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Republican Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming, in the letter cited what they called Trump’s central role in a deliberate, “multi-part effort” to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election, and to remain in power.
The subpoena says that Trump would be deposed on Nov. 14, after the midterm elections.
It is not clear whether Trump will comply with the subpoena.
I think the Democrats are about to discover the meaning of “tar baby”.
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They know their power is about to end
royally....
All Trump has to do is just demand that it be done before TV cameras, before the election.
It’s just going to make him more of a martyr.
There has been troop movements going on inside the US for days now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLPiw7THUZE
Which is legal, until such time that the "loss" is deemed to be official.
Jan. 6 committee has yet to find a Trump lawyer who'll accept service of subpoena, sources say
Is this because they didn’t find the documents they wanted at Mar a Lago??
He cant demand anything, he shows up on their terms or he gets the Bannon treatment.
Man with that subpoena and 50 bucks I can fill my gas tank in Pennsylvania and with that subpoena and a 100 bucks I can buy a tankful in California.
Off the rails Government.
Which is legal, until such time that the “loss” is deemed to be official.
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well, just ask Dole!
It’s
A
Faux
Subpoena
As authentic as pelosi’s smile.
As illegal as Joe’s selection.
What is the discrete legislative purpose of this committee?
I say the purpose is to create a Bill of Attainder against a US citizen. Calling it a “criminal referral” to DOJ does not change its essential nature.
Allowing Congress to do this - to anyone - voids the IV, V, and VI Amendments to the US Constitution by making Congress a perpetual Grand Jury or Star Chamber.
I suggest Trump crib this speech from Shakespeare should he testify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYCq53vmNY
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Fan you into despair! Have the power still
To banish your defenders; till at length
Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
Making not reservation of yourselves,
Still your own foes, deliver you as most
Abated captives to some nation
That won you without blows! Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.
They did this on Friday to move the Sunday talkers away from the epic shellacing the democrats are facing and back into talking Trump.
The Democrats have nothing to run on except hatred for a President from over two years ago.
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