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Trump impeachment hearing opened by Congress for first time

House Judiciary chairman describes efforts to curtail testimonies 'an absolute cover-up by the White House'

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Corey Lewandowski, the outspoken Republican operative who served as Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, is appearing before Congress as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s first official hearing in a Democratic-led impeachment investigation.

Mr Lewandowski, a 45-year-old political commentator currently mulling a bid for Senate in his home state of New Hampshire, was unlikely to provide Democrats with much new information as they decide whether to draft articles of impeachment against the president, however. Two other witnesses who were subpoenaed alongside Mr Lewandowski — former White House aides Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter — were not expected to show up at all after the White House ordered them to decline the request.

In his opening statements, Mr Lewandowski claimed the country "spent over three years and $40m (£32m) taxpayer dollars on these investigations."

"It is now clear the investigation was populated by many Trump haters," he added. He described Mr Trump’s campaign as “one of the greatest political revolutions” in American history, calling it “a historical and unprecedented political juggernaut.”

Prior to the Tuesday hearing, Mr Lewandowski tweeted: “Excited about the opportunity to remind the American people today there was no collusion no obstruction.”

The preceding tweet and opening remarks echoed Mr Trump’s analysis of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The special counsel found that there was not enough evidence to establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, and he also found that Mr Trump could not be exonerated on obstruction of justice.

Attorney General William Barr later made his own decision on obstruction, saying there was insufficient evidence.

A close friend and supporter of the Republican president, Mr Lewandowski is likely to fiercely defend the president — and he isn’t expected to elaborate much beyond what he told Mr Mueller’s investigators last year.

He was a central figure in Mr Mueller’s report, as investigators detailed two episodes in which the president asked Mr Lewandowski to direct then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit the special counsel investigation. Mr Trump said that if the attorney general would not meet with Mr Lewandowski, then Mr Lewandowski should tell him he was fired.

Mr Lewandowski never delivered the message but asked Mr Dearborn, a former aide of the ex-attorney general, to do it. Mr Dearborn said he was uncomfortable with the request and declined to deliver it, according to the report.

Still, the Judiciary panel is moving ahead, approving rules for impeachment hearings last week. Among those guidelines is allowing staff to question witnesses, as will happen for the first time with Mr Lewandowski.

In letters to the committee on Monday, the White House said that Mr Dearborn and Mr Porter were “absolutely immune” from testifying.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote that the Justice Department had advised, and Mr Trump had directed, them not to attend “because of the constitutional immunity that protects senior advisers to the president from compelled congressional testimony.”

In a separate letter, Mr Cipollone said that Mr Lewandowski, who never worked in the White House, should not reveal private conversations with the president beyond what is in the report. He wrote that his conversations with Mr Trump “are protected from disclosure by long-settled principles protecting executive branch confidentiality interests.”

In his own prepared remarks, Mr Nadler called out the White House for over its efforts to curtail the committee’s first impeachment investigation hearing.

“I think we should call this what it is, an absolute cover-up by the White House," he said.

Mr Lewandowski then refused to answer questions about meetings he had with the president, saying he wanted to respect the White House’s requests to avoid discussing information not included in the report.

Democrat Sheila Jackson asked him about specific portions of the Mueller report, posting the content she referred to on a large display screen for him to read, and yet he still refused to answer her questions.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-hearing-corey-lewandowski-russia-us-election-a9109316.html
 

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They should fine and jail Lewandowski for obstruction of Justice. If this was a "nothing burger" like the alt right wing press keep on harping about, then why on earth did he refuse to answer all the simple questions??
Just goes to show how crooked this Whitehouse is to the very core!!
 

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Roflmfao!! It's called the Execution Privilege. Walking Dead Nadler was counting on Mueller to deliver. Since he got nothing, he's trying, desperately, to dig something, anything out to justify his existence.
 

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Roflmfao!! It's called the Execution Privilege. Walking Dead Nadler was counting on Mueller to deliver. Since he got nothing, he's trying, desperately, to dig something, anything out to justify his existence.
1000 ex federal prosecutors said there is enough there to impeach.
Only Pelosi stopped it.
 

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1000 ex federal prosecutors said there is enough there to impeach.
Only Pelosi stopped it.
So fucking what? We're they writing the report? Did they conduct the investigation? Did they see the underlying materials? You do know that the DA is position with political implications, don't you? You can find a 1000 prosecutors on any issue.
 

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So fucking what? We're they writing the report? Did they conduct the investigation? Did they see the underlying materials? You do know that the DA is position with political implications, don't you? You can find a 1000 prosecutors on any issue.
They said they'd charge Trump with the evidence available in the Mueller report alone.
That's what's fucking what.

Its just Pelosi, screwing up the dems again, that's stopping him from being impeached.
 

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While I feel Trump is a bad president, the push for impeachment is really stupid idea. It will never pass the senate. The Democrats would just be sabotaging themselves, they might be handing Trump another 4 years.
 

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While I feel Trump is a bad president, the push for impeachment is really stupid idea. It will never pass the senate. The Democrats would just be sabotaging themselves, they might be handing Trump another 4 years.
They won't impeach, short of that they want to expose as much wrongdoing as possible.
 

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They won't impeach, short of that they want to expose as much wrongdoing as possible.
If that's what they are going for then fine, although I don't know how much more they can expose about Trump that we don't already know. If he wins again obviously the public doesn't give a shit.
 

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Executive what?

Clueless to the core.
LOL! That's what Nadler is calling "obstruction". You just missed it, no sin in that. Btw, did you like when Lewandowski refferd to his inquisitor as "President Swalwell"?
 

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They said they'd charge Trump with the evidence available in the Mueller report alone.
That's what's fucking what.

Its just Pelosi, screwing up the dems again, that's stopping him from being impeached.
One. As they aren't actually in a position to do so they are blowing smoke.

Two. I bet the majority have political asperations in safe Dem areas so being on record for this is just more baby kissing.
 

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While I feel Trump is a bad president, the push for impeachment is really stupid idea. It will never pass the senate. The Democrats would just be sabotaging themselves, they might be handing Trump another 4 years.
Making the GOP senate take a stand on whether they accept Trump's shit or not would be worth it.
As would the dems taking a stand and saying this is unacceptable.
 

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One. As they aren't actually in a position to do so they are blowing smoke.

Two. I bet the majority have political asperations in safe Dem areas so being on record for this is just more baby kissing.
Dems don't even have the votes in the House. All those Democrat Congressmen from the swing districts will never go on the record on impeachment. They may hate Trump, but being voted out and having to become a nobody again, that they hate even more.
 
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Frankie creamed his jeans looking at thread title :biggrin:

Just another red herring Frankie, settle down.
 

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While I feel Trump is a bad president, the push for impeachment is really stupid idea. It will never pass the senate. The Democrats would just be sabotaging themselves, they might be handing Trump another 4 years.
I think they are, people are going to get so fed up with this bullshit, they'll vote him in again.
 

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They should fine and jail Lewandowski for obstruction of Justice. If this was a "nothing burger" like the alt right wing press keep on harping about, then why on earth did he refuse to answer all the simple questions??
Just goes to show how crooked this Whitehouse is to the very core!!
OMFG you guys need to give up already.
There is nothing, has never been anything, and nothing will come of this just like every other witch hunt the left has conducted purely to continue the smear campaign until the next election.
Jeezuz how desperate!
 

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I think they are, people are going to get so fed up with this bullshit, they'll vote him in again.
Agreed.
It demonstrates how radical and desperate the left is and overall continues to expose their true colours. ie they're nuts.
Silent majority...Trump wins next election.
Keep it up.
 

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Making the GOP senate take a stand on whether they accept Trump's shit or not would be worth it.
As would the dems taking a stand and saying this is unacceptable.
At this point you can’t get a Dem controlled house to do that. Nadler is as clueless on this as his summoning Mueller, which was a shit show.
 
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