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Committee’s Latrine<\/b><\/p>\n

The Trump Dump<\/b><\/p>\n

June 16th<\/sup> 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

Hours before today\u2019s utterly damning third January 6th<\/sup> Select Committee hearing, Trump finally had his long-awaited nuclear meltdown. (OK, it was more like a cake collapsing in the oven, but still kind of fun to watch). He got on his ersatz network, Truth Social, to rage, “The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!). It is a one sided, highly partisan Witch Hunt, the likes of which has never been seen in Congress before. Therefore, I am hereby demanding EQUAL TIME to spell out the massive Voter Fraud & Dem Security Breach! I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure several tens of millions of people had the same thought. OK, let\u2019s give him twelve hours in front of the committee, responding to questions under oath. Isaac III wrote, \u201cWith 6 hearings, 2 hours each, equal time would come out to 12 hours of that tub of orange lard sitting there, sweating it out and corroding the upholstery. Let him go for the record, 11 hours, set by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple hours of trumpy ranting, with maybe a commentator to prod\/goad (Proof. Where’s the proof. Do you know what proof is?) him about election fraud might be must see TV.\u201d \u2013 grunt<\/p>\n

Both Presidents and former presidents have testified in front of Congressional committees According to the far-right American Liberty<\/a> blog in an unsigned piece, \u201cPresidents Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Gerald Ford all testified before Congress when they were in office. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford all testified before Congress after they left office \u2013 about scandals that happened while they were in office. Taft was called back to testify on 12 separate occasions before eight different congressional committees.\u201d The link leads to some utterly hilarious reading in which the author is urging Lindsey Graham to investigate Russiagate and the attempted theft of the election by \u2026 Barack Obama. No, really. The irony is palpable.<\/p>\n

So, yes, the committee could ask and even compel Trump to testify. Then put him under oath, and subject to the same rules of conduct the other witnesses all have to follow. He would have counsel of course, although the best he might be able to get might be Rudy and a case of gin. He would of course have the right to plead the Fifth (and Rudy would retort, \u201cI\u2019m not done with it yet!\u201d). Even without Rudy, the Fifth is a popular item among Trumpkins. Don, Junior invoked it over FIVE HUNDRED times in one deposition lately. But even Trump has to know that doing so on live TV in front of tens of millions of people would look bad.<\/p>\n

Of course Trump would probably just scream and rant and generally try to make an utter circus out of the proceedings, and that would leave the Committee in a bind. Arrest him for contempt? Gag him? There wouldn\u2019t be any way to maintain decorum that wouldn\u2019t be political poison. OK, save Trump for the actual trials. Judges don\u2019t face the same political constraints. Judge Dredd can put Trump in the cooler for 48 to calm down and get away with it.<\/p>\n

Ginni Thomas (another member of the Too Much Gin brigade) also wants to testify. It\u2019s become more and more clear that her part was more than just cheerleading for team Trump, and that she was playing an active role in conspiring to interfere with the slates of electors in Arizona, and promoting Eastman\u2019s paranoid and treasonous legal theories. The committee would not only want to know the extent of her activities (which may have crossed a line from politicking to conspiracy), but her husband\u2019s knowledge of them. With Republicans in the Senate, Slappy Thomas would never be impeached, but the Court itself, already widely seen as a shadow kangaroo court for the religious right and corporations, might compel Thomas to resign just to try to preserve whatever gravitas it has left. So it\u2019s definitely worth the while of the Committee to take Thomas up on her offer.<\/p>\n

Finally: it feels very strange to credit Mike Pence with resolve and courage, but it appears that he showed both on January 6th<\/sup> in the face of overwhelming pressure to betray his country. His reasons may have been noble or base, but in the end he did the right thing, even with a mob braying literally to hang him. I\u2019ll never respect the man\u2019s philosophy or methods, but let it be said that when it really mattered, he really mattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Committee’s Latrine The Trump Dump June 16th 2022 Bryan Zepp Jamieson Hours before today\u2019s utterly damning third January 6th Select Committee hearing, Trump finally had his long-awaited nuclear meltdown. (OK, it was more like a cake collapsing in the oven, but still kind of fun to watch). He got on his ersatz network, Truth Social, … <\/p>\n

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