Senate Judiciary Threatens To Subpoena Trump Jr. To Testify, Cant Be Contacted

[pirateshipdude]

The Senate Judiciary Committee has pre-approved subpoenas to force President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to testify if they don’t respond by Friday evening to their invitation to appear next week.

Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said if they do not accept that subpoenas will be issued “almost immediately.”

“We’ve already authorized” the orders, Grassley said, explaining that the committee’s top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), had also signed off on the orders in advance. “She and I don’t have to take any action — it’s already been taken.”

The hearing is scheduled to be held publicly will likely to be a contentious affair after it was found out that the young Trump emailed about meeting with a supposed agent of Russia in order to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton during the campaign.

http://news.groopspeak.com/senate-judiciary-threatens-to-subpoena-trump-jr-to-testify-cant-be-contacted/

[Gothmog]

1. I am predicting that Donnie Jr will be taking the fifth

I can not imagine letting either Manafort or Donnie Jr. testify

[atreides1]

2. Or drinking several fifths!!!

[George II]

9. My first thought!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

16. Do any of them drink? I think the Groper is a teetotaler due to his dad & brother being alcoholics.

[smirkymonkey]

24. It's likely that Donnie Jr. is one too. Even though Two Scoops doesn't drink, he has a classic

alcoholic personality. I would really love to see him professionally psychoanalyzed.

[pirateshipdude]

32. You are right. He does have that classic alcoholic personality.

I was surprised to learn he does not drink.

[George II]

31. I don't think any of the trumps drink alcohol.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I am guessing you're correct

are they allowed to have their lawyers with them when they testify?

[Gothmog]

6. Yes, you can have counsel with you

Most times it does not matter in that when you have counsel all you do is take the 5th

[NewJeffCT]

17. I was a bit young to understand Watergate

when it was going on - however, I have "fond" memories of Ollie North taking the 5th during Iran-Contra and North's whiny lawyer complaining that he's not a potted plant...

[Gothmog]

21. I remember Watergate very well

I was in high school but my civics teacher/debate coach was a rabid democrat and we followed the entire proceedings. I was at a major downtown firm during Iran Contra and we had a TV set up in the lunchroom for the North hearings

[NewJeffCT]

28. I was in college during Iran Contra

I worked in my father's small store during the summer to earn extra money, so I had no problems bringing in a small TV to work to watch Iran Contra - I remember the mailman would stop in and watch with me for a little while each day. Pretty sure he was a Democrat.

[Stonepounder]

10. You might remind Jr. what his daddy said.

"If you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?" Trump said at a campaign rally in Florida in September.

"The mob takes the Fifth Amendment," Trump said at a campaign event in Iowa later that month. "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

[NewJeffCT]

18. I'm sure this time

will be an exception caused by the Fake News media or something similar.

[pirateshipdude]

33. Right. Eom

[Gothmog]

22. Those rules apply to other people and not to a trump

[ToxMarz]

11. Donald Trump criticized a particular group of people who invoked that right

Donald Trump criticized a particular group of people who invoked that right: former staff members of Hillary Clinton called on to testify about her setting up a private email server.

“So there are five of them taking the Fifth Amendment, like you see on the mob, right?” he said at another rally in Iowa, though it was three former Clinton staff members who pleaded the Fifth. “The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

[Gothmog]

23. The media would have a fun time with showing these clips next to Donnie Jr. taking the 5th

[vkkv]

27. Is that because "he is a transparent, high quality person" ??

[OnDoutside]

3. Bring him in, in cuffs !

[trof]

7. Sorry, they'll be French cuffs.

With expensive cufflinks.

[volstork]

8. Made in China

n/t

[janx]

20. And gaudy as hell. n/t

[Thrill]

4. He can run but can't hide

[Mr.Bill]

12. I honestly think

it's just a matter of time until people close to Trump begin to flee the country.

[Binkie The Clown]

13. Before I read your post...

...I was going to post my guess that he and his co-conspirators would, at some point, start skipping the country.
You beat me to it.

[groundloop]

15. I'm waiting for 45* to get off Air-Force 1 in Moscow and not get back on

[Ilsa]

19. Could Russia might try to confiscate AF1 if Dolt45 ran for it

to Moscow? Seems like it might be an act of war. What would Pence do? Would the House finally impeach him immediately?

Someone needs to work on a plot for a similar scenario.

[Mr.Bill]

25. If they would keep him in Russia

I would be okay with making the plane a gift.

[pirateshipdude]

34. They can have the plane, lol, I hear you. Eom

[Mr.Bill]

26. I've noticed from the beginning he is surrounded by people who are well connected in countries

where we could not easily get to them.

[Fritz Walter]

14. On safari, perhaps

If that's the case, could the Secret Service detachment assigned to protect his narrow ass be ordered to serve -- and enforce -- a subpoena?

Does the sword of privilege cut both ways?

[pirateshipdude]

35. That is an interesting question. Eom

[Mr. Ected]

29. Odd that Junior hasn't contacted the Senate Committee at all

And neither has his lawyer. If they're trying to get his story straight, they might as well give up.

[Amaryllis]

30. I think those are gonna be open hearings?

[pirateshipdude]

36. That is how I read it. Eom