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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSounds like Pompeo is not going to comply
with House Dems. He's tweeting that they're bullying him.
What are Dems going to do when these criminals blatantly ignore them?
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)There's going to have to be a lot of that, I'm afraid.
leftieNanner
(15,160 posts)To quote National Treasure, "Somebody has to go to prison, Ben."
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)We've crossed the rubicon, to borrow Pelosi's phrase. Any sign of weakness now will plunge us back into the perception that we allow ourselves to be stonewalled.
dlk
(11,578 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)dlk
(11,578 posts)dem4decades
(11,304 posts)What does he care if the Democrats say noncompliance is a sign of guilt?
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)By Kate Irby
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 02:24 PM
... So there are five of them taking the Fifth Amendment, like you see on the mob, right? he said at another rally in Iowa, though it was three former Clinton staff members who pleaded the Fifth. The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?
Thats exactly the question Donald Trump was asked 26 years ago, in 1990 when he was in the midst of divorcing Marla Maples, according to the Huffington Post. During the divorce proceedings, which included five depositions, Trump pleaded the Fifth 97 times on approximately 100 questions related to marriage infidelity.
By pleading the Fifth, he avoided any admittance to adultery ...
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article105178626.html
still_one
(92,422 posts)Doodley
(9,136 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)randr
(12,417 posts)they are defying.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)They shouldn't allow a precedent where anyone can ignore a subpoena
If they cannot enforce their subpoena's then they are toothless tigers and might just as well hang it up