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cbdo2007

(9,213 posts) Fri Mar 1, 2019, 02:57 PM Mar 2019

How can the House call Trump to testify in public about something???

He is a compulsive liar...even more than Cohen. All they need to do is get him in there on any one of these issues and they know he will perjure himself.

I think until it happens under oath, right to their own questions, he will keep getting away with it.

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How can the House call Trump to testify in public about something??? (Original Post) cbdo2007 Mar 2019 OP

I don't think they can compel him to testify. comradebillyboy Mar 2019 #1

They can't. Not the president. The Special Prosecutor may be able to get him under oath. manor321 Mar 2019 #2

not ever going to happen or be allowed beachbum bob Mar 2019 #3

They could ask him to testify, but not compel him. MineralMan Mar 2019 #4

comradebillyboy

(10,144 posts)

1. I don't think they can compel him to testify.

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Fri Mar 1, 2019, 03:25 PM

Mar 2019

manor321

(3,344 posts)

2. They can't. Not the president. The Special Prosecutor may be able to get him under oath.

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Fri Mar 1, 2019, 03:25 PM

Mar 2019

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

3. not ever going to happen or be allowed

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Fri Mar 1, 2019, 04:11 PM

Mar 2019

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)

4. They could ask him to testify, but not compel him.

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Fri Mar 1, 2019, 04:12 PM

Mar 2019

Executive privilege would apply. Since the legislative and executive branches are separate but equal, under the constitution, Congress can't compel the President to do much of anything, really.

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