MetoliusAg said:
EX-DOJ prosecutor Joyce Vance is looking at the bribery and extortion case, and asking aloud the same "elephant in the room" question most Americans have:
"Why are Trump's chief subordinates -- all who have now been implicated by Sondland and Hill -- refusing to be questioned by Congress and give sworn testimony if they and Trump are innocent?"
Have you stopped beating your wife?MetoliusAg said:
EX-DOJ prosecutor Joyce Vance is looking at the bribery and extortion case, and asking aloud the same "elephant in the room" question most Americans have:
"Why are Trump's chief subordinates -- all who have now been implicated by Sondland and Hill -- refusing to be questioned by Congress and give sworn testimony if they and Trump are innocent?"
MetoliusAg said:
EX-DOJ prosecutor Joyce Vance is looking at the bribery and extortion case, and asking aloud the same "elephant in the room" question most Americans have:
"Why are Trump's chief subordinates -- all who have now been implicated by Sondland and Hill -- refusing to be questioned by Congress and give sworn testimony if they and Trump are innocent?"
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No offense intended, but I've learned to maintain a healthy amount of skepticism of your legal opinions, due to the number of errors you've made in some of your prior posts on legal issues.
Your never ending ability to take my words completely out of context is quite amazing. I'll type this slooowwly so maybe you will be able to follow along.Quote:
Your "she dumb" comment is an interesting snap judgement by you of her criminal law acumen,
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CNN's @ChrisCuomo: "Did you ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?"
@RudyGiuliani: "Of course I did"
If, then, maybe, I dunno.MetoliusAg said:Quote:
CNN's @ChrisCuomo: "Did you ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?"
@RudyGiuliani: "Of course I did"
Sondland imo was still being less than 100% forthcoming in his 2nd round of sworn testimony, but he did make a simple but obvious point: If the meeting wasn't conditioned upon Zelensky giving the statement Trump wanted on the investigations, they would have just had the meeting.
Gary Johnson said:Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.
Cool story. We aren't in court she was saying what Americans are thinking. Trump is blocking witnesses and evidence, why? Probably the same reason Nixon did.
The kind of a response I would expect of someone with a limited understanding of separation of powers and Unitary Executive theory, not to mention the 5th Amendment.Gary Johnson said:Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.
Cool story. We aren't in court she was saying what Americans are thinking. Trump is blocking witnesses and evidence, why? Probably the same reason Nixon did.
Gary Johnson said:Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.
Cool story. We aren't in court she was saying what Americans are thinking. Trump is blocking witnesses and evidence, why? Probably the same reason Nixon did.
99 plus percent of Americans don't give a **** about this.Gary Johnson said:Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.
Cool story. We aren't in court she was saying what Americans are thinking. Trump is blocking witnesses and evidence, why? Probably the same reason Nixon did.
MetoliusAg said:You're telling a falsehood. I've never said that about Barr. His speech was replete with conspiracy theories, historical, factual, and legal errors, and logical fallacies. But clearly a poorly-reasoned speech is no reason to try him for treason.Quote:
Says the guy who thinks Barr should be tried for treason for elucidating on the Unitary Executive theory that basically no serious legal scholar disagrees with from an historical and precedent perspective.
What a load of horse pookie. Where did you get that? ShareBlue?Quote:
His speech was replete with conspiracy theories, historical, factual, and legal errors, and logical fallacies. But clearly a poorly-reasoned speech is no reason to try him for treason.
Gary Johnson said:
Still ranting about Crowdstrike and boasting of his technological ignorance.
Even Fiona Hill recognized the Steele Dossier as a "rabbit hole" that was Russian disinformation and lacking credibility.Quote:
But I feel confident that a Russian (or DNC) disinformation campaign was run from Ukraine that made it way into the Steele Dossier. This Russian (or DNC) intelligence operation lead the majority liberals to believe Donald Trump was a Russian puppet, destabilizing our country. This in itself is enough to look into the origins of the 2016 election interference in Russia.
In other words, you admit you intentionally took her words out of context in order to make a strawman argument. Unfortunately for you, she didn't say what you just claimed nor was she speaking to a jury while trying a case.Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.
MetoliusAg said:In other words, you admit you intentionally took her words out of context in order to make a strawman argument. Unfortunately for you, she didn't say what you just claimed nor was she speaking to a jury while trying a case.Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.
Surely you're not telling us that you as a lawyer wouldn't want exculpatory witnesses to testify and exculpatory evidence to be presented if it benefitted your client?
Mulvaney and Giuliani were two of the principle participants in the events being investigated by the HoR, and if they are exculpatory witnesses for Trump, they should testify. Likewise, the subpoenaed document evidence (texts, emails, and written documents) should be released. The American people deserve to know the truth.
That's exactly what Nixon's supporters falsely claimed, too. Art Buchwald wrote a famous newspaper column about it.aginlakeway said:99 plus percent of Americans don't give a **** about this.Gary Johnson said:Cool story. We aren't in court she was saying what Americans are thinking. Trump is blocking witnesses and evidence, why? Probably the same reason Nixon did.Quote:
The single worst thing a prosecutor in a criminal trial can ever do is even make a reference to any inference to a defendant's failure to take the stand by asserting the 5th Amendment. Automatic mistrial.