Why won't trump testify?
Jan 10, 2018 06:50:07 #
Jan 10, 2018 07:51:17 #
Why wouldn't every good citizen think he Should testify to know the t***h; and then move on?
Jan 10, 2018 07:57:13 #
For some reason republicans have always gotten special treatment while Democrats have had to jump through hoops. Why is that? 
Jan 10, 2018 08:14:57 #
An interview or interrogation by a trained investigator is never done by written questions and answers. This is simply a copout by his lawyers because they're afraid of what he'll say while giving testimony.
Jan 10, 2018 08:47:28 #
Trump is under no obligation to testify. Any president is immune to being forced to testify about anything. If he/she were not, any president would not be able to do anything.
Jan 10, 2018 08:56:51 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
boberic wrote:
Trump is under no obligation to testify. Any president is immune to being forced to testify about anything. If he/she were not, any president would not be able to do anything.
I am not an attorney. I have heard several TV lawyers say it's Muellers court and Muellers ball, it's up to him not Trump. They sound like they know what they are talking about, but they prove that there is more than one educated point of view. You can try to adopt an everything or nothing attitude, but there is so much you have no control over.
Do you think Clinton would have testified if he weren't compelled to? (just to be clear: Clinton was president when he testified.)
Jan 10, 2018 09:07:00 #
It's called a "perjury trap." Remember Scooter Libby? He was not the one who leaked Valerie Plame's name to the press, that was Richard Armitage. Yet, they caught Scooter Libby on a perjury charge because he had a faulty memory.
Remind me again about the time Hillary was interrogated, under oath, by a special counsel with a retinue of rabid anti-Hillary assistants for 11 hours? I don't think that happened.
Nice try, though.
I don't care who you are, give trained interrogators the opportunity to ask you questions about anything for several hours and you will be found guilty of perjury about something.
Remind me again about the time Hillary was interrogated, under oath, by a special counsel with a retinue of rabid anti-Hillary assistants for 11 hours? I don't think that happened.
Nice try, though.
I don't care who you are, give trained interrogators the opportunity to ask you questions about anything for several hours and you will be found guilty of perjury about something.
Jan 10, 2018 09:25:47 #
boberic wrote:
Trump is under no obligation to testify. Any president is immune to being forced to testify about anything. If he/she were not, any president would not be able to do anything.
You have made that false statement before and have been corrected before
Congress can subpeona a President and either get testimony under oath or remove the President from office. A Grand Jury can also subpeona a President and demand sworn testimony, but they must rely on Congress if the President does not comply.
Because Mueller controls a Grand Jury he essentially has the upper hand in negotiating how Trump will be interviewed. The bottom line is that Trump dare not give sworn testimony or worse yet be subject to discovery or a deposition.
Jan 10, 2018 09:52:03 #
Apaflo wrote:
You have made that false statement before and have... (show quote)
Look it up. A president CAN NOT be made to testify. He can even ignore a subpoena. He can even fire a special prosecutor. Were it not so, an opposing party could cripple the predisent's ability to govern
Jan 10, 2018 09:55:19 #
boberic wrote:
Were it not so, an opposing party could cripple the president's ability to govern
He has done that all by himself.
Jan 10, 2018 10:10:46 #
Kraken wrote:
He has done that all by himself.
Even if that's true a president can not be made to testify
Jan 10, 2018 11:15:38 #
boberic wrote:
Even if that's true a president can not be made to testify
The courts have said otherwise. First to Nixon, who then resigned rather than fight it. Later to Clinton, who testified.
Look up "executive privilege".
Jan 10, 2018 11:16:56 #
Apaflo wrote:
The courts have said otherwise. First to Nixon, who then resigned rather than fight it. Later to Clinton, who testified.
Look up "executive privilege".
Look up "executive privilege".
Jan 10, 2018 11:32:11 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
boberic wrote:
Look it up. A president CAN NOT be made to testify. He can even ignore a subpoena. He can even fire a special prosecutor. Were it not so, an opposing party could cripple the predisent's ability to govern
You're suggesting that Clinton (Bill) testified voluntarily?
Jan 10, 2018 11:39:20 #
Apaflo wrote:
The courts have said otherwise. First to Nixon, who then resigned rather than fight it. Later to Clinton, who testified.
Look up "executive privilege".
Look up "executive privilege".
Nixon resigned rather than d**g the country through an impeachment process. Whether it would have gone forward, or he would have been impeached if it had, or he would have been removed by the Senate if he had been impeached is all conjecture. Don't even bother making any statement about it, it would be conjecture.
Clinton was a different case, he had already testified about the case in question.
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