McGahn to sit for closed-door interview with House Democrats, ending long legal battle
Source: The Hill
BY HARPER NEIDIG - 05/12/21 10:07 PM EDT
Former White House counsel Don McGahn will sit for a closed-door interview with House Democrats as part of an agreement to end a nearly two-year legal battle between the Trump White House and Congress.
The Department of Justice and House lawyers submitted a joint court filing late Wednesday outlining the terms of the agreement and asking a federal appeals court to put the long-running case on hold.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which issued the subpoena in April 2019, hailed the settlement on Wednesday as an important step to ending a Trump era marked by the executive branch's stiff resistance to congressional oversight.
"When the former President vowed to fight 'all of the subpoenas' aimed at his Administration, he began a dangerous campaign of unprecedented obstruction. We begin to bring that era of obstruction to an end today," Nadler said in a statement.
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Says Jerry Nadler said “God has no authority in the House of Representatives”
Jerry Nadler didn’t say ‘God has no authority in the House of Representatives’
By Daniel Funke
February 26, 2021
A Facebook post misquotes a member of Congress who dismissed his colleague’s suggestion that passing federal protections for LGBTQ people would go against God’s design.
The Feb. 26 Facebook post shows an image of Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., with text around him.
"‘God has no authority in the House of Representatives,’" the post quotes Nadler saying.
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
The post gave a specific time that Nadler purportedly uttered the phrase — "Thursday February 25, 2021 at approximately 345 PM EST in a hearing televised on C-span." So we checked the record.
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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/facebook-posts/jerry-nadler-didnt-say-god-has-no-authority-house-/
Early in 2017, AG Jeff Sessions recused from the Trump/Russia investigation, and Sessions appointed Robert Mueller as the special prosecutor. Rod Rosenstein was suddenly in focus, and he assured Chump (behind closed doors) that nobody was investigating Chump. Rosenstein said it would be in Chump's best interest to comply with the special prosecutor, and the whole thing would be over in a few months.
There was a brief uneasy honeymoon, and during that time Don McGahn cooperated and testified to Mueller about whatever loosey-goosey stuff happened with the Russians during Chump's presidential campaign. (Hope Hicks, Corey Lewandowski, and Steve Bannon and many others were also interviewed.) After Chump found out that McGahn had given Mueller 30 hours (!) of testimony, Chump panicked and McGahn never cooperated again with Mueller.
After that first summer of Chump's presidency, it was all back-peddling and covering-up one scandal after another. Mueller hung on for another full year before publishing his report, and very little of McGahn's testimony was ever revealed. Or maybe it was in there but it got redacted by Bill Barr, who was the new AG by that time. We'll never know until we see the full unredacted Mueller report.
