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spanone

(135,791 posts) Tue Jul 9, 2019, 12:37 AM Jul 2019

Today: White House Blocked Key Mueller Witness From Testifying More Than 200 Times

Annie Donaldson, the former chief of staff to White House counsel Don McGahn and a crucial witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, found herself blocked from replying to questions from a House panel more than 200 times because of “constitutionally-based Executive Branch confidentiality interests.”

The 55-page list of responses from Donaldson records 212 separate assertions of the clunky phrase, which appears to demand confidentiality without formally asserting executive privilege.

Donaldson issued the responses after House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) subpoenaed her, along with former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, for testimony and documents in May as part of the panel’s probe into possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.

Across the responses, Donaldson replied with the same boilerplate statement that the White House had asserted that the subject of the response was confidential.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/annie-donaldson-house-transcript

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Today: White House Blocked Key Mueller Witness From Testifying More Than 200 Times (Original Post) spanone Jul 2019 OP

The GOP can and will gef away with whatever they want. CentralMass Jul 2019 #1

So Nadler should have seen this coming, and should be prepared to respond immediately. Eyeball_Kid Jul 2019 #2

Have the Sgt at arms enforce the damn subpoena.... Historic NY Jul 2019 #3

If republicans were in power anyone who went against the subpoena would be in jail by now and they uponit7771 Jul 2019 #4

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

1. The GOP can and will gef away with whatever they want.

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Tue Jul 9, 2019, 12:53 AM

Jul 2019

Eyeball_Kid

(7,429 posts)

2. So Nadler should have seen this coming, and should be prepared to respond immediately.

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Tue Jul 9, 2019, 01:04 AM

Jul 2019

Why does it always seem as if the Dems are taken by surprise every time Trumpy kicks them in the balls?

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

3. Have the Sgt at arms enforce the damn subpoena....

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Tue Jul 9, 2019, 03:33 AM

Jul 2019

she a former employee. Nadler and the committee look like milk toast. Trumps going to drag this out for as long as he can. Get these people in there on the stand and in public hearings.

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)

4. If republicans were in power anyone who went against the subpoena would be in jail by now and they

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 9, 2019, 05:39 AM

Jul 2019

... wouldn't give 2 damns about swing state polling on it.

The big mistake they made with Clinton was not bringing the public along with them on why the impeachment was going to happen ... I get that.

But even MAGA Cultist understand Red Don is scum ... they put up with him because he protects them from the non-wight walkers.

They could care less about the rest

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