Barb McQuade: "Witnesses with Baggage" -- Anticipating the January 6th Hearings

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Barb McQuade
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Jan 6 hearings will likely feature Trump insiders like DOJ officials & aides to Pence & Meadows. They have some baggage, but their alliance with Trump also bolsters their credibility. My thoughts on assessing their testimony in ⁦@just_security⁩.

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"Witnesses with Baggage” — Anticipating the January 6th Hearings
"The reality is that witnesses are often neither heroes nor villains, or maybe they are a little of both."
11:52 AM · Jun 6, 2022

https://www.justsecurity.org/81798/witnesses-with-baggage-anticipating-the-jan-6-hearings-and-related-investigations/

One intriguing subplot to the upcoming Jan. 6 select committee hearings is this question — are the former Trump Justice Department officials heroes or villains?

Correct answer: neither.

When the series of hearings begin on Jun. 9, the Committee is reportedly likely to call as witnesses former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy, Richard Donoghue, and, maybe, even former Attorney General William Barr. All three of these witnesses have already provided damaging statements against Trump – two of them under oath. But all three men also make imperfect witnesses.

The public and the media should be prepared for how such witnesses figure into investigations of this kind and character, both for this hearing and any subsequent criminal prosecutions.

As every prosecutor knows, you take your witnesses as you find them. Most of them come with some baggage. Being close enough to a wrongdoer to be aware of his misconduct often means that the witnesses have engaged in some wrongdoing themselves. And the men who found themselves in leadership roles at DOJ in the waning days of the Trump administration appear to be no exception.

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[onecaliberal]

1. Here come the excuses already.

[democratsruletheday]

2. yep....their already being summarily dismissed in Maga(t) land...

"RINO's" one and all. Treasonous turds and then some