Call Trump to testify under oath: CHECKMATE!

[Towlie]

He's simply not capable of telling the truth.

[JoeStuckInOH]

1. He'd just plead the fifth.

[spanone]

5. better yet, he would just lie....that's what comes natural to him

[Towlie]

6. This is why it's a metaphorical checkmate - not matter what your next move is, you lose.

[Wednesdays]

16. That, or cite Executive Privilege

It would be a cold day in hell before rDump is made to testify.

[beachbum bob]

2. executive privlidge

[Chasstev365]

2. Bill Clinton testified while President!

[LOL Lib]

4. Yeah but Bill wasn't a scared little man boy like Dump.

2 Scoops would have a nervous breakdown and go into hiding in his bunker. Sounds like a great idea!

[rsdsharp]

7. Clinton testified in a civil suit

regarding something that happened before he was President.

Nixon never testified during Watergate. Reagan didn't testify about Iran-Contra as a sitting president. Bush the second didn't testify under oath about 9/11.

There is no mechanism to require Trump to testify while he holds the office.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Correct. Trump would have to have broken the law before his inauguration.

Good thing he's a Boy Scout with nothing whatsoever shady in his past.

[rsdsharp]

12. I was assuming the OP

wanted to have Trump testify regarding his meetings with Comey.

But, as others have pointed out, if criminal charges were brought against him regarding criminal activity committed prior to assuming the presidency, he would have the protection of the 5th Amendment against self incrimination. He couldn't be compelled to testify.

[Qutzupalotl]

13. Unless it's to a grand jury, correct?

[rsdsharp]

14. No, the 5th amendment applies to grand jury testimony, too.

It is, however, protection against self incrimination. If the testimony would not tend to incriminate him, it could be compelled, but it's difficult to see how the issues might be separated absent immunity. And no prosecutor would immunize the biggest fish of all to get to an underling.

[YCHDT]

9. D2 Scoops has a REPUTATION of being a fuckin liar ... let get to it !!!

[Blaukraut]

10. Even if he lies under oath, how can that be proven?

Unless he really does have tapes, which I doubt.

[bresue]

11. yes, yes, and yes.....

I did not listen to his speech...had it muted...but now it is being discussed.

[unitedwethrive]

15. The beauty of this is that Trump will be concentrating on this Comey 'he lied' issue...but a smart

prosecutor (if Grand Jury) or Democratic senators (if in committee), will put in other questions to get him to a clear point of purgery. Something that can't be conflated with "he said, he said".

[JHB]

17. And the Republicans will let him get away with it.