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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOOOOPS. WaPo: Cipollone "might have been a fact witness to the scheme for which Trump was impeached"
New Bolton revelations show Trumps trial is more corrupt than we thought
First, this shows that Trumps chief counsel for his impeachment defense, Pat Cipollone, might have been a fact witness to the very corrupt scheme for which Trump was impeached and for which the Senate is now set to acquit him.
Stephen Gillers, a professor at the New York University School of Law, told us that this raises serious questions about the propriety of Cipollones role as Trumps chief counsel. As Gillers wrote in a recent piece, Cipollone had an obligation, at a minimum, to disclose all his own knowledge of the facts surrounding the case.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/31/new-bolton-revelations-show-trumps-trial-is-more-corrupt-than-we-thought/
More than two months before he asked Ukraines president to investigate his political opponents, President Trump directed John R. Bolton, then his national security adviser, to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton.
Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the presidents personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the presidents impeachment defense.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won election as president of Ukraine, to ensure Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the investigations that the president sought, in Mr. Boltons account. Mr. Bolton never made the call, he wrote.
First, this shows that Trumps chief counsel for his impeachment defense, Pat Cipollone, might have been a fact witness to the very corrupt scheme for which Trump was impeached and for which the Senate is now set to acquit him.
Stephen Gillers, a professor at the New York University School of Law, told us that this raises serious questions about the propriety of Cipollones role as Trumps chief counsel. As Gillers wrote in a recent piece, Cipollone had an obligation, at a minimum, to disclose all his own knowledge of the facts surrounding the case.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/31/new-bolton-revelations-show-trumps-trial-is-more-corrupt-than-we-thought/
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OOOOPS. WaPo: Cipollone "might have been a fact witness to the scheme for which Trump was impeached" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2020
OP
"I always claim attorney-client privilege to shield myself from being called as a witness!"
struggle4progress
Feb 2020
#6
Karadeniz
(22,600 posts)1. So...is it a mistrial?
live love laugh
(13,189 posts)4. 💯. They said no witnesses. He's a witness. Mistrial. nt
babylonsister
(171,106 posts)2. "Trump's trial is more corrupt than we thought..."
no it's not! This is them.
SunSeeker
(51,787 posts)3. Disbar the scumbag!
malaise
(269,257 posts)5. They should all be in prison
It's sickening
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)6. "I always claim attorney-client privilege to shield myself from being called as a witness!"