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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can hardly wait for Gym Jordan's testimony at the January 6 hearings.
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Response to Arkansas Granny (Original post)
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)out from or into tRUMP. This should get very interesting.
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rsdsharp
(9,195 posts)I respectfully* decline to answer pursuant to the rights granted me under the Fifth Amendment.
*He may omit the respectfully part.
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)Make the fucker do it. Make him go on record refusing to answer because it might incriminate him.
Comfortably_Numb
(3,812 posts)lame excuse. Complicit-again.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)He'll lie his ass off or refuse to answer altogether.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Throw his whiney ass in the klink.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)CanonRay
(14,112 posts)"I cannot recall". You're welcome.
elias7
(4,026 posts)Jordan must be subpoenaed, lest the investigative power of the house means nothing
Jordan must testify or be thrown in jail, lest a subpoena means nothing
Jordan must explain the content of conversations with TFG, lest the process means nothing
andym
(5,445 posts)They'd be better off drinking a sixth than taking the 5th.
Their aim is to stay in office regardless of the cost.
If they plead the 5th and refuse to testify, they'll get rightly crucified in the next election. There's a perception that only extremely guilty people take the 5th.
And that's not going to play well to Democrats, Independents, or Republicans.
The Trumpists don't think they did anything wrong so having a Representative or a Senator "admit" he did something wrong by taking the 5th (and anyone taking that strategy would have to take the 5th repeatedly) would be very much going off the Trumpy reservation.
I think the Trumpists would respect someone who brazenly lies with big bold lies but would have contempt for those who meekly admit they did something wrong.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Instead...just subpoena the tapes of the conversations and read them out during a public hearing...
Subpoenaing him gives him a platform and fifth amendment latitude during the hearing.
Slammer
(714 posts)It depends a lot on what's on the tapes.
If there's enough to nail him to the wall with only the tapes, reading the tapes will be enough.
If the tapes just show he's connected to some unsavory constituents and made some intriguing and tantalizing comments but nothing definitive, they'll have to try to draw him out during testimony to say something either legally damning or politically damning.
Ideally both but we rarely get the ideal....
Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Listen to the tapes in closed session first then have an open session.
When pedo jimbo talks just ignore him...eventually TFG will say something stupid...
No rush.
Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)audio before the questioning would be very useful IMHO.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,853 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Can't wait
Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)fruit and nuts, particularly pistachios