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In reply to the discussion: Just a thought: Calling & losing a House vote for impeachment would be catastrophic [View all]NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)They've gotten stonewalled every step of the way - no shows, bogus claims of executive privilege and more. With Trump Toady Barr in charge of DOJ, any criminal referrals for Contempt of Congress are going to be dropped by him. So, Congress has to sue and wait for the cases to go through the courts.
This is NOT going to line up nicely like it did with Watergate with weeks and weeks of public testimony where witnesses would come in one after the other to testify live on TV no matter if they call it Impeachment Hearings, Impeachment Inquiries or just regular testimony before Congress. If witnesses do show up, they'll essentially take the 5th like Hope Hicks did a few weeks back.
I was attacked last week on here for stating that this is what would happen.
Unless they can get a blanket ruling from SCOTUS invalidating ALL claims of executive privilege by Team Trump, it's going to be a long hard slog to get anybody to testify.