PREDICTION: Burr will give Donald Jr immunity in return for his testimony

[uponit7771]

PREDICTION: Burr will give Donald Jr immunity in return for his testimony

There's no reason to trust Don Jr Or Burr or anyone in the KGOP.

It looks like Red Don Jr got the subpoena in April and the KGOP has had to time scheme this out ... and .. Don Jr hasn't set a date to testify before the senate again.

Whatever the end, Don Jr going before the senate is not in benefit of America

Regards

UPDATE: Looks like immunity is VERY VERY hard to do without dems help

From onenote:

A grant of Congressional immunity requires two-thirds of the members of a committee to vote to grant immunity, after which the request for immunity goes to a federal judge, who must issue an order granting immunity. See 18 USC 6005(b)(2).

So unless several Democrats on the Intell Committee support granting Jr. immunity it can't happen.

QUESTION: Is there any other way Burr can help Red Don Jr, I don't believe for a second Burr is doing such for the sake of the country after Mueller let it be known Burr has been disclosing some of the investigation to Trump.

[Zoonart]

1. Could not agree more.

This is all s set-up to clear Jr. on national Tee Vee.

[watoos]

2. If he gets immunity

He will lie his ass off.

[uponit7771]

3. +1 or just wont answer questions at all or just forget what his middle name is

[smirkymonkey]

4. Exactly.

This is all such a joke.

[onenote]

5. That's going to be very hard to do under federal law.

A grant of Congressional immunity requires two-thirds of the members of a committee to vote to grant immunity, after which the request for immunity goes to a federal judge, who must issue an order granting immunity. See 18 USC 6005(b)(2).

So unless several Democrats on the Intell Committee support granting Jr. immunity it can't happen.

[StarfishSaver]

6. Thank you

This is important for people to know.

If this weren't the case, a Senate or House majority could easily immunize an Administration of official of the same party.

[uponit7771]

7. Prediction fail ... I'll update my post, what could be the other ways Burr can help Red Don and

... his son?

I don't believe for a second this is for the sake of the country.

tia

[mr_lebowski]

8. I bet I know what this is about at this point ...

The Mueller Report, despite LIAR45's fucking bullshit today, really did NOT 'totally exonerate' anybody involved in the TT meeting of June, 2016.

As all of us here, who live in the world of REALITY I'm sure recall, basically what Mueller said was, in so many words, 'although it could be argued that the participants were involved in a violation of Campaign Finance Laws, those particular laws require knowing what you were doing was wrong at the time ... and since it could be expected that said participants would CLAIM to not have known (and we don't have hard evidence at this time to the contrary), it's not really worth bringing a federal case against them for it'.

So the plan here is to give Butthead a platform to publicly proclaim that 'I had NO idea that this meeting could be considered illegal in any way!'

I guarantee you Manafort & Natalia at a bare minimum absolutely knew, but Junior? He may not have. He's pretty fucking stupid.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. It doesn't quite work that way.

Because Jr. has been subpoenaed, he has to show up and testify truthfully. There are no "deals" to make for immunity in that situation because immunity is a matter for prosecutors and not Congress unless authorized by a judge after a vote by a committee. If Jr. doesn't comply with the subpoena he could be held in contempt of Congress; Burr could choose not to issue a contempt citation and refer the matter to the DoJ for prosecution (and fat change Trump's stooge AG would prosecute Jr. anyhow), but that's not the same as an immunity deal. If he promised some other deal, e.g., they won't refer him to DoJ for lying the first time in exchange for his testimony, there would be no need for a subpoena.

[uponit7771]

12. Got ... damn, I'm just wondering what Burr is up to. They got the subpoena in April

[Freethinker65]

11. Nah. Trump/Barr will declare executive Privilege when there is none, or

Or Jr. will only answer carefully scripted questions with carefully scripted responses from the GOP deflecting everything back to the evil Hillary when deemed necessary.

He will claim he does not recall anything of note in response to all questions from Democrats.

[StarfishSaver]

13. This Committee rejected immunity requests from Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos

so I'd be surprised if they agreed to grant it to Junior.

[Jarqui]

14. Here's my guess:

Trump has access to an unredacted Mueller report and the underlying evidence.

The GOP will let Jr. know their questions in advance.

With the Mueller report & evidence, Jr's lawyers can prepare the script of the opening statement and answers to the GOP Senators questions - already known to them or worked out.

For the Dem Senator's questions, they don't have an unredacted copy of the Mueller report nor the underlying evidence to formulate their questions. When they ask their questions, Jr pleads the 5th if needed.

He's through it largely unscathed and got testimony in to help offset or undermine his chances of a perjury charge.

Table may be set for Barr to decline to prosecute him or for Trump to pardon him, if needed.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. I thought once you plead the 5th you cannot answer any questions at all.

[Jarqui]

20. He's not a criminal defendant (yet)

So I think he can plead the fifth for questions that he thinks are self-incriminating

[standingtall]

15. Whatever reason Burr is doing this

I'm sure it isn't to get the truth. Either one he is doing this to try and protect Trump or Burr is doing this to try and save his own behind in the 2020 election. If Burr is doing this for 2020 I'm pretty sure he will make sure Jr. is protected so it will all be for show.

[WheelWalker]

17. Burr's term runs to 2022, and in 2016 he said he wouldn't stand for reelection again.

[Nitram]

16. Not gonna happen.

[Jersey Devil]

18. More likely it give Don Jr the chance to give excuses for his previous false testimony

He was confused the first time he testified, never intended to be misleading. Other than that, he can't remember anything.

[uponit7771]

21. +1

[kentuck]

22. Probably discovered that his name is on one of the indictments in SDNY?

Might try to work out a deal for those charges?

[cynatnite]

23. Prediction: Junior no-shows. Cries for his 5th amendment mommy. n/t