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He's simply not capable of telling the truth.
JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)spanone
(137,283 posts)Towlie
(5,434 posts)Wednesdays
(19,354 posts)It would be a cold day in hell before rDump is made to testify.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)2 Scoops would have a nervous breakdown and go into hiding in his bunker. Sounds like a great idea!
rsdsharp
(9,848 posts)regarding something that happened before he was President.
Nixon never testified during Watergate. Reagan didn't testify about Iran-Contra as a sitting president. Bush the second didn't testify under oath about 9/11.
There is no mechanism to require Trump to testify while he holds the office.
Qutzupalotl
(14,889 posts)Good thing he's a Boy Scout with nothing whatsoever shady in his past.
rsdsharp
(9,848 posts)wanted to have Trump testify regarding his meetings with Comey.
But, as others have pointed out, if criminal charges were brought against him regarding criminal activity committed prior to assuming the presidency, he would have the protection of the 5th Amendment against self incrimination. He couldn't be compelled to testify.
Qutzupalotl
(14,889 posts)rsdsharp
(9,848 posts)It is, however, protection against self incrimination. If the testimony would not tend to incriminate him, it could be compelled, but it's difficult to see how the issues might be separated absent immunity. And no prosecutor would immunize the biggest fish of all to get to an underling.
YCHDT
(962 posts)Blaukraut
(5,835 posts)Unless he really does have tapes, which I doubt.
bresue
(1,007 posts)I did not listen to his speech...had it muted...but now it is being discussed.
unitedwethrive
(2,003 posts)prosecutor (if Grand Jury) or Democratic senators (if in committee), will put in other questions to get him to a clear point of purgery. Something that can't be conflated with "he said, he said".