Whitaker Will Return to Clarify Testimony

[applegrove]

Whitaker Will Return to Clarify Testimony

February 26, 2019 at 9:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/26/whitaker-will-clarify-testimony/

"SNIP....

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker “has agreed to meet a second time with House lawmakers to clarify public testimony he gave earlier this month,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

....SNIP"

[RockRaven]

1. Is he really going to clarify something ambiguous, or is it a euphemism for backtracking on perjury?

It seems like usually with Trumplanders it is the latter.

[elleng]

3. Backtracking on perjury,

and hoping it works.

[applegrove]

5. Can we pull up his testimony? I remember thinking he gave himself

an out the size a car could drive through in the specific words he used. But for the life of me I can't remember what they were.

[gratuitous]

9. "As I sit here today . . . "

Which, while a valuable time-wasting gimmick, also will now serve Meatball in that he will now get to say, "As I sit here on this day, and having taken a little time to review the record (like I should have done the last time I sat here today), I realize that my prior testimony is so bad and wrong as to be actionable, and I'd really like to take a mulligan and take another stab at it."

[applegrove]

10. I meant his first testimony. He was misleading but not exactly lying. Wish

I could remember the words. It will come to me in a few weeks or months.

[emulatorloo]

6. Yeah, backtracking on perjury

[underpants]

2. I guess the clock didn't run out

Tick tock

[BigmanPigman]

7. Rep Nadler hasn't forgotten that.

He made a comment about his attitude and arrogance earlier today.

[manor321]

4. I can't wait until he's forced to admit Trump put pressure on him

IMHO, the committee mostly cares about establishing Trump's obstruction of justice, and not so much on Whitaker's lies. They should of course, but there are bigger fish to catch.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Is he bringing a stopwatch, pray tell?