House Democrats subpoena former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and ex-White House official

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

House Democrats on Thursday subpoenaed former Trump campaign aide Corey Lewandowski and ex-White House official Rick Dearborn, compulsory summons that pro-impeachment lawmakers hope will build public support for ousting President Trump.

The House Judiciary Committee is attempting to force Lewandowski and Dearborn to testify on Sept. 17, according to a statement released by the panel. The subpoenas — aimed at creating a made-for-TV moment that unpacks part of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s findings — comes as Lewandowski is mulling a bid for Senate in New Hampshire.

“Corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn were prominently featured in the Special Counsel’s description of President Trump’s efforts to obstruct justice by directing then-White House Counsel Donald McGahn to fire the Special Counsel, and then by ordering him to lie about it,” Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said in a statement. Their testimony, the New York Democrat later added, “will help the Committee determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment against the President or other Article 1 remedies. No one is above the law.”

The summons comes as the pro-impeachment movement reaches a major milestone: More than half of the House Democratic Caucus — 123 Democrats, according to a Washington Post tally — have called for an official impeachment inquiry to begin.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-subpoena-lewandowski-dearborn/2019/08/15/9f57146e-bf81-11e9-aff2-3835caab97f6_story.html

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Full headline: House Democrats subpoena former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and ex-White House official Rick Dearborn

Original article -

By Washington Post Staff
August 15 at 1:49 PM

The House Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday that it had subpoenaed Lewandowski and Dearborn — a move that pro-impeachment lawmakers hope will build public support for ousting President Trump.
The committee is seeking to force Lewandowski and Dearborn to testify on Sept. 17 about their role in an episode detailed in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report that described their involvement in an effort to get then then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to curtail the Russia investigation.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/08/15/house-democrats-subpoena-former-trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski-and-ex-white-house-official-rick-dearborn/?wpisrc=al_politics__alert-politics&wpmk=1

[FarPoint]

1. I'm setting up myself to be highly

Disappointed.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. They need to be on the record.

And if they refuse to show up, then that needs to be in the record as well.

[FarPoint]

6. I'm sensing....

This will be all we get...."Let the record reflect".

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I think maybe you sense wrong.

The "legal" process is not instant. Of course you could always gather up some volunteers, head on down to the WH, and take care of business.

[FarPoint]

10. I have done my share

Of Washington DC protests over the years.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Millions have over the years

Certainly even with the 1963 "March on Washington", over 55 years later, the civil rights/voting rights issues haven't gone away. But you have to keep at it. No one is willing to give up power.

[RKP5637]

4. It seems like we've been down this road before for a number of subpoenas and no show. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. ... but will they show up? n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Probably not but this is the process

and it would be interesting to see how this plays out regardless in this particular case, as I understand there was some bad blood between Lewandowski and Manafort.

[RKP5637]

7. Yes ... and at minimal, it gets it on the record as part of the process. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

11. At some point if they did actually show up (or get compelled to do so)

then they could sit there and "plead the fifth" to every question (I recall Iran-Contra), although Newsweek did an interesting piece on that - https://www.newsweek.com/flynn-russia-probe-fifth-amendment-trump-oliver-north-iran-contra-613707

You just won't know until they get to that point.

[Maine-i-acs]

8. Will an Admin lawyer be there with them a la Hope Hicks

And advise them not to answer questions
Related to the transition
or the time before it
or the time after it
citing Executive Privilege?

i.e. the Chief EXECUTIVE feels too PRIVILEGED to be held accountable in any way

[Mc Mike]

13. Get 'em, gang! GET THEM! rec, nt.

[CuriousAsterisk]

14. He'll just lie

Or not show up. Or claim immunity.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "Lying" will pretty much be a prison sentence

Not showing up/immunity claims are what would need to be resolved by the courts.

[riversedge]

16. Bet he will be no show.