Trump meant ‘game over’: Congress won’t get far, ‘I don’t want people testifying’ to these partisan hacks
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President Donald Trump indicated in an interview Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to offer congressional Democrat investigators the same transparency he’d granted special counsel Robert Mueller.
During Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion, the president allowed the special counsel unrestricted access to the White House’s trove of documents and aides as needed.
Speaking with The Washington Post on Tuesday, he argued that Democrats don’t deserve the same courtesy because they’re “obviously very partisan” and just trying to score political points.
“I allowed my lawyers and all the people to go and testify to Mueller — and you know how I feel about that whole group of people that did the Mueller report,” he said. “I was so transparent; they testified for so many hours. They have all of that information that’s been given.”
Despite unrestricted access to the White House, not to mention the Justice Department’s wide array of resources, Mueller was unable to uncover any substantial evidence of wrongdoing.
Instead of accepting the special counsel’s conclusions, congressional Democrats have launched their own investigation — one that the president appears to have dismissed as a partisan witch hunt.
“There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan,” he said, adding that he doesn’t want his aides helping the Democrats in their quest. “I don’t want people testifying to a party, because that is what they’re doing if they do this.”
The White House plans to fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify by reportedly exerting executive privilege over his testimony .
McGahn has become infamous for the allegedly “total bullsh-t” testimonials he made to Mueller and others about the “crazy shit” that the president had allegedly asked him to do.
“The Trump administration also plans to oppose other requests from House committees for the testimony of current and former aides about actions in the White House described in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report,” the Post reported, citing its usual anonymous sources.
However, the president cautioned in his interview that the current White House counsel hasn’t actually “made a final, final decision” yet on whether to block aides from speaking with Democrats.
While speaking with reporters about McGahn in particular, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley likewise confirmed that the final decision will “be up to the attorneys.”
During an appearance Tuesday morning on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday morning, he added that all Democrats are really doing is stoking more anti-Trump paranoia and conspiracy theories among their already severely unhealthily obsessed base.
“What I am concerned about though is that Democrats like Jerry Nadler continue to try to attack this president and attack members of this administration repeatedly,” he said.
“He’s not going to learn anything else about Don McGahn or this administration that Bob Mueller didn’t find in two years of wasted time and energy. The only thing he is going to gain quite frankly, are maybe some political allies at the far left who are conspiracy theorists and think somehow it was a sham. But in fact, the only sham that existed was the lie pushed by the Democrats and so many in the mainstream media on this president and his administration.”
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Democrats have pushed back on the White House by arguing that these attempts to block current and former aides from testifying amount to “stonewalling.”
“Now we see the administration engaging in stonewalling of the facts coming to the American people,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said Tuesday.
It’s unclear what she meant, given as all the relevant facts were already laid out in Mueller’s report.
As for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, he’s outright dismissed the White House’s plans to exert executive privilege over McGahn’s testimony.
“The Committee has served a valid subpoena to Mr. McGahn. We have asked him to supply documents to the Committee by May 7 and to testify here on May 21. Our request covers the subjects described by Mr. McGahn to the Special Counsel, and described by Special Counsel Mueller to the American public in his report,” he said in a statement published to Medium on Tuesday.
“As such, the moment for the White House to assert some privilege to prevent this testimony from being heard has long since passed. I suspect that President Trump and his attorneys know this to be true as a matter of law – and that this evening’s reports, if accurate, represent one more act of obstruction by an Administration desperate to prevent the public from talking about the President’s behavior. The Committee’s subpoena stands. I look forward to Mr. McGahn’s testimony.”
The battle over McGahn comes amid another battle over former White House personnel security director Carl Kline. On Tuesday the House Oversight Committee moved to hold him in contempt of Congress for not appearing at a hearing regarding the White House’s alleged security issues.
Kline reportedly failed to show up as per orders by White House deputy counsel Michael M. Purpura.
“The White House and Mr. Kline now stand in open defiance of a duly authorized congressional subpoena with no assertion of any privilege of any kind by President Trump,” committee chair Elijah E. Cummings said in a statement Tuesday.
“Based on these actions, it appears that the President believes that the Constitution does not apply to his White House, that he may order officials at will to violate their legal obligations, and that he may obstruct attempts by Congress to conduct oversight.”
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Game over? We haven't gotten to half time yet Trump you bloated Oompa Loompa.
Meh, in the game he doesn't even realize he is playing, it is game over.
Woooosh...
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You clearly never bothered to read the report. Mueller made it very clear that it is NOT over.
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What "disdain" of the Constitution are you referring to?
The process worked...and most amazing, it stayed with the law and did not violate the Constitution.
Show us evidence to the contrary. But use facts instead of persona feelings.
Beginning of what exactly?
By the time the House democrats get done with the latest witch hunt Trump's term will be drawing to a close. If the dems do indeed try to force an impeachment against Pelosi's wishes, it will go nowhere in the Senate.
A failed impeachment attempt will spell doom for the democrats, as the voters realize the left wing nuts have taken over the party of FDR and JFK and have no idea as to how to lead and inspire.
The result of all this clown show is that the dems will lose the House and enable Trump's reelection.
Using the same tools and tactics you just seeded the other day should have gotten Obama impeached. Awesome hypocritical answer!
Trump may, or may not, escape the House committees' investigations, but he won't escape the investigations of Southern District of NY. It was reported just yesterday that Deutsche Bank was setting up to turn over Trump banking info to the investigators.
Yeah, but that's six years away.
Mueller is done and he left us a blueprint of Trump's misdeeds, Barr's attempts to spin it can't change that. Now congress has to do ITS job, which is oversee the executive branch. It's their CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY. And republicans love investigations, so stop that bullshit.
The twittering Orange Manbaby knows that he is guilty and is desperate to prevent those closest to him from being questioned under oath.
An innocent person would not be afraid and would seek to clear their name................
Mueller clearly says NO Collusion, NO Conspiracy, NO Coordination with Russia by Trump, members of his family, members of his campaign, or those on the perimeter of his campaign
That is not what Mueller said. That is what Barr said. Mueller said that there were 11 instances of potential obstruction of justice.
The subject of my response was the phony Russia collusion conspiracy.
The Obstruction of Justice is even more of a farce.
With regard to Facebook ads and Twitter posts from the Russia-based Internet Research Agency, for example, Mueller could not have been more blunt: “The investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. persons knowingly or intentionally coordinated with the IRA’s interference operation” (emphasis added). Note that this exoneration includes not only Trump campaign officials but all Americans:
Barrspin isn't the report.
The Mueller report is full of facts. Why you continue to present the Barrspin as the full truth is no mystery, but you can stop pretending the Mueller report doesn't exist. Deal with the facts in that report instead of the Barrbull and the hate spewing from your 'elected president' of the 'USA of Russia'. And the Russian hacking that helped him in the states he won by a very very slim margin. Along with gop voter suppression. Here is some more reading material. Barr's little spin won't cut it if you want to have a real conversation about why Trump is compromised. Its been so long since you've heard facts you like because Trump and team lies all the time, every day, so take a refresher course on the difference between fact and propaganda.
Should Mr. Trump truly want this to end (which I do not believe he does, I think he basks in attention positive or negative), my advice to him would be to simply shut his mouth on the topic.
The more he speaks the greater peril he places himself in.
I wouldn't want it to end either. The Snooze" media spends more time on his little tweets, and less time on what he is actually doing as president.
He has those Media types....right where he wants them (reporting on everything else BUT).
And they STILL don't know it yet !
It doesn't take much to satisfy stupid people, apparently.
Scumbag has already backed down in the case of Carl Kline, the stooge who overruled Kelly, MeGahn and the entire intel community to give Javanka, and other bent administration stooges, their security clearances. He can't and won't stop McGahn, and anyone else from the administration whom Mueller questioned, from testifying. In the very similar parallel we've seen emerge between Scumbag and Nixon, we're just at the point where John Dean entered the story. Scumbag's nightmare has only just begun. The Mueller report will be brought to life when the actual players testify in public and the country gets to watch and hear what really happened.
They are trying very very hard to make the Barrspin the report and pretend Mueller's doesn't exist. They never want to discuss what Mueller actually reported because it makes Trump look really really bad. But hey, Russia is there to help! McConnell is getting an infusion of Russian oligarch cash for Kentucky to help him overcome the upcoming 2020 threat to his seat. Gop has a lot to answer for, no wonder they are working so hard to protect Trump from justice. They are also protecting themselves.
No wonder republicans wanted to life Russian sanctions so badly.
Deranged Donald refuses to accept that Congress is a co-equal branch of government whose job it is to provide checks and balances on the executive branch. The GOP-led House refused to do their job, and now he's having a fit because the Democrat-led House is trying to do their job.
Funny how he constantly demands investigations into anyone he dislikes or who he thinks has insulted him, which is an abuse of his power, yet he refuses any transparency or accountability for himself or those who flatter him.