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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLive updates: Trump says he will 'strongly consider' testifying in writing in impeachment probe
By John Wagner
November 18, 2019 at 9:03 a.m. EST
BREAKING: President Trump responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said: The president could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants.
Trump tweeted Monday morning: "She also said I could do it in writing. Even though I did nothing wrong, and dont like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!"
President Trump leveled fresh attacks Monday against Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry at the outset of a week in which eight current and former officials are scheduled to publicly testify about his controversial actions regarding Ukraine.
In morning tweets, Trump claimed the rules of the inquiry had been rigged by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has described Trumps conduct as bribery, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), who has summoned four witnesses to appear before his panel on Tuesday alone.
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What good is his pathological lying word at this point? He might as well write it in crayon...
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Appearance required.
enough
(13,259 posts)gab13by13
(21,329 posts)My lawyers will write up some talking points.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Faux pas
(14,672 posts)donny ding dong.
spanone
(135,830 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)"I don't recall."
"I don't remember."
"I didn't see it."
"Never knew the gentleman."
"The call was perfect."
Response to Mike 03 (Reply #7)
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UTUSN
(70,686 posts)Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Then Trump will balk
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Mention Hillary's 11 hour sitting and call his bluff.
Response to NightWatcher (Reply #11)
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The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)I mean, seriously....since the DoJ, as a rule, declines to indict a sitting President, an impeachment inquiry is the only due process afforded him.
Poor little jackass....hes shat on the Constitution from Day One, and yet doesnt realize its the only thing keeping him out of prison right now...
LonePirate
(13,419 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)Because if he lies in written testimony, that's another article of impeachment and his lawyers will talk him out of it.
DFW
(54,370 posts)"Mr. Trump, did you try to exert pressure on the president of Ukraine to furnish detracting information on the Biden family?"
If it's Trump tweeting, the answer will look something like this:
"Not at all. I have witnesses, too. The president of Nambia was having covfefe with me, and we were watching berders of paradise while all this was going on."
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)Why on earth should it be acceptable for Cowardly Donald to submit written answers?
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)No truthiness. No truthiness at all. P
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Response to Dennis Donovan (Original post)
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stopbush
(24,396 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)kentuck
(111,089 posts)Nothing would signify "above the law" more than to tell the Senate to pound sand.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)LeftInTX
(25,305 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)That's how I take this.
gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Or, just cowardice?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Witch hunt witch hunt--witch hunt. Witch hunt--hunting witches--hunt witches. Witch hunting witch hunt, hunt, hunt, hunt. Hunt? Witches! Witch hunting witch hunters witch hunting; which witch hunted? Witches! Witch and witches hunted, witch hunt.
...and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Anything else is a deep state perjury trap, aka, the real world.
Like all despots, take away their enablers, and youve got nothing but a quivering mass of jello.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)mahina
(17,651 posts)He will consider it crouching in a fetal position in fear.
It doesnt get better from here. Disappear!