House Dems Accuse Impeachment Witnesses of Coordinating Testimony
Source: Daily Beast
Some Democrats involved in the impeachment inquiry are beginning to suspect that certain witnesses have coordinated with each other ahead of testifying to ensure their stories do not conflictthe very outcome investigators are trying to avoid by conducting hearings behind closed doors.
Two Democratic lawmakers told The Daily Beast that, over the course of the nine witness depositions they have conducted over the last several weeks, there have been suggestions that certain witnesses spoke to each other about what they would say to impeachment investigators.
We have direct evidence from our investigation that witnesses have talked to each other about their testimony, said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, adding that the evidence concerns two witnesses in particular, whom he declined to name.
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Those ratf__cking republicans!
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)onenote
(42,747 posts)dem4decades
(11,301 posts)It's all tied in together. Rudy, those guys, and Trump, Ukraine and SDNY. Sondland was an idiot tho go on record at the Congressional hearings. His time in the barrel is coming.
orangecrush
(19,611 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)calimary
(81,437 posts)orangecrush
(19,611 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)..In the end, even though this is against the law, which it is, it won't matter in my opinion. The truth about all this is out, and the show is in the last act, very close to the end of the play.
onenote
(42,747 posts)It is not illegal for witnesses to talk to each other, to discuss what they might say in their testimony etc. before a trial and, even during or after a trial, there is no bar to doing so unless the judge has expressly admonished them not to do so (in which case a witness might be found in contempt).
docgee
(870 posts)it may be an indication of perjury.
onenote
(42,747 posts)the fact that one witness spoke to another is not, in and of itself, evidence that one or both committed perjury.
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)onenote
(42,747 posts)But there is no presumption that testimony is false because the witnesses have conferred with one another.
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)onenote
(42,747 posts)Ho-kay.
EarthFirst
(2,902 posts)Among some.
onenote
(42,747 posts)Amateur lawyering is a thing here on DU. Not a good thing.
noneof_theabove
(410 posts)
You can talk to a non-party witness as much and in as detailed a fashion as
you wish, as long as you neither suggest nor provide answers for them.
Do you really believe the were "seeing how the grand-kids are doing"?
Nothing a ReThug does is illegal until they get caught.
In this case, answer with the absolute same answer, then I call tampering.
onenote
(42,747 posts)You're not limited to taking about the grand kids. And these are rules applicable to counsel. Not to witnesses talking to each other.
I take it you skipped some classes in law school
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Seems we already know that Sondland's testimony was counter to Taylor's and Cooper's.
These Trumpanzees haven't stopped lying and coordinating their lies since the Great Indignity first came into the picture.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Ultimately though, fuck em - I think the truth will out and that the reams of testimony gathered will knock them into the land of who cares...or maybe perjuryville...
Fuck em
Quemado
(1,262 posts)If witnesses are coordinating with each other, could the Republicans use this to blow up the impeachment?
Hassler
(3,389 posts)Was corroborated in his confession by the Freedumb alum, and further corroborated by Taylor and others. He's fcked.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)This should not surprise anyone. The constitution, federal, state and local laws mean nothing to them. They will do anything to retain power. I am weary of showing up to a gunfight with only a nail clippers.
Demand accountability. Demand consequences for illegal actions. Demand the rule of law.
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)House Dems.
So Fuck off Daily Beast.