ALPHA MALE! Trump To Accept Jan 6 Committee Subpoena On One Condition: He Testifies On Live TV
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President Donald J. Trump has responded after the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee officially issued a subpoena for him to testify before Congress for the US House Committee on the events of that day at the US Capitol.
News reports are that Trump is fired up by the opportunity to talk to the public, which is something he is very comfortable doing, but the idea of Trump at the mercy of Daddy’s Girl Liz Cheney (RINO-WY) is something most people believed Trump would avoid.
The Democrats-and RINOs on the highly corrupt US House Committee on Jan 6th thought they would try some political theater ahead of the 2022 midterms in November- by embarrassing Trump, and now we hear that Trump has responded to their taunts.
Trump has reportedly said that he will accept the subpoena and is happy to testify, provided he can do it on live TV.
“According to reports, Trump will agree to testify but doesn’t want the Democrats and their allies in the media to selectively edit his video testimony to make him look bad,” media reports show.
NYT correspondent Michael Schmidt reported about the situation: “Since it became public that the House select committee planned to subpoena Trump for his testimony, the former president has been telling aides he favors doing so, so long as he gets to do so live, according to a person familiar with his discussions.”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, told CNN’s Jake Tapper:
“In terms of the subpoena, for him, that is actually one of the things that has animated him.
“He’s been talking to advisers about how, you know, he would consider testifying if they would air it live, which is also not surprising…it seems hard to imagine the committee would go for that.”
WATCH:
Here is what was said:
TAPPER: That’s — that’s interesting. Do you think his lawyers would let him testify live? I mean, I can’t imagine that — I mean, it might feel good for him, but I can’t imagine that making him look sane, rational, reasonable.
I mean, I don’t see any scenario in which he ends up looking good there.
HABERMAN: I think that it would be — I also don’t see a scenario where he doesn’t potentially get himself into a fraud situation when he’s testifying under oath.
And I think it would depend on which lawyers he is listening to, Jake.
He has different lawyers in different cases, and he seeks them out for different things. And they are not always on the same page.
TAPPER: Well, right, that’s the thing. Because he would be under oath. Often when he testifies under oath, he just ends up saying, “I don’t recall, I don’t recall, I don’t recall.” Because he’s being told by lawyers that he has to do that.
But I don’t think he would do that before the committee. I just can’t imagine any attorney — although, I don’t know how he’s picking his attorneys these days. It doesn’t seem like he’s exactly going to…
HABERMAN: Right.
TAPPER: … the Harvard Law Review. So do you think — I mean, among these lesser attorneys who are giving him advice these days, do you think somebody would actually tell him, “Go ahead, do that; that’s going to be great?”
HABERMAN: At least one of his lawyers was sounding people out about the idea today of him — of him testifying and agreeing to it as long as the committee would let him do it live.
And so I certainly don’t think they’re all shutting him down.
I do think that there are people who would be concerned about it, for the same reason that his lawyers, when he was being investigated by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, were concerned about him meeting with Mueller and testifying, which Trump wanted to and they did not want him to, for the reasons you just said.
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