Live updates: Trump says he will 'strongly consider' testifying in writing in impeachment probe

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/impeachment-hearings-live-updates/2019/11/18/6bba93b4-09f1-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

By John Wagner

November 18, 2019 at 9:03 a.m. EST

BREAKING: President Trump responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said: “The president could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants.”

Trump tweeted Monday morning: "She also said I could do it in writing. Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!"

President Trump leveled fresh attacks Monday against Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry at the outset of a week in which eight current and former officials are scheduled to publicly testify about his controversial actions regarding Ukraine.

In morning tweets, Trump claimed the rules of the inquiry had been “rigged” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has described Trump’s conduct as “bribery,” and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), who has summoned four witnesses to appear before his panel on Tuesday alone.

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What good is his pathological lying word at this point? He might as well write it in crayon...

[Iliyah]

1. Hell no!

Appearance required.

[enough]

6. Pelosi has given him the option of writing. NT

[gab13by13]

2. Translation

My lawyers will write up some talking points.

[Claritie Pixie]

3. Maybe Putie will write it for him?

[Faux pas]

4. Yeah sure ya betcha

donny ding dong.

[spanone]

5. 'strongly consider'?....sure he will.

[Mike 03]

7. Expect worthlessness.

"I don't recall."
"I don't remember."
"I didn't see it."
"Never knew the gentleman."
"The call was perfect."

[UTUSN]

8. Will be the scene in The Shining, reams, all with the one word "Witchhunt" repeated endlessly!1

[Demsrule86]

9. When pigs fly!!!!

[Cartoonist]

10. Adam will write the questions

Then Trump will balk

[NightWatcher]

11. Screw that. Schedule a public hearing date and time.

Mention Hillary's 11 hour sitting and call his bluff.

[The_Counsel]

12. Trump Needs to Stop with the "No Due Process" Argument.

I mean, seriously....since the DoJ, as a rule, declines to indict a sitting President, an impeachment inquiry is the only “due process” afforded him.

Poor little jackass....he’s shat on the Constitution from Day One, and yet doesn’t realize it’s the only thing keeping him out of prison right now...

[LonePirate]

13. Anybody who believes he is strongly considering this is a fool.

[Maeve]

14. No, he won't

Because if he lies in written testimony, that's another article of impeachment and his lawyers will talk him out of it.

[DFW]

15. And who, pray tell, will do the writing?

"Mr. Trump, did you try to exert pressure on the president of Ukraine to furnish detracting information on the Biden family?"

If it's Trump tweeting, the answer will look something like this:

"Not at all. I have witnesses, too. The president of Nambia was having covfefe with me, and we were watching berders of paradise while all this was going on."

[TheBlackAdder]

16. I want his Capt. Queeg moment!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. GOPers refused to accept written answers from whistleblower

Why on earth should it be acceptable for Cowardly Donald to submit written answers?

[LakeArenal]

26. I kidding. What a dick.

No truthiness. No truthiness at all. P

[beachbumbob]

18. offering written statements is not "testifying"

[stopbush]

20. Yawn...who still falls for his "Lucy and the football" antics?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. And then chickenshit out at the last minute.

[kentuck]

22. He's trying to figure out a way so he doesn't have to testify in his own impeachment trial ...

Nothing would signify "above the law" more than to tell the Senate to pound sand.

[struggle4progress]

23. "Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give will be aargle bargle?"

[LeftInTX]

24. Live updates: Trump is trying to get our attention!

[trof]

25. "strongly consider it" when pigs fly

[unitedwethrive]

27. So, trying to divert attention from the unscheduled hospital trip yesterday?

That's how I take this.

[gibraltar72]

30. I would give my side of the story. It I had due process!

[lsewpershad]

31. Why? because of bonespurs in your brain or tongue

Or, just cowardice?

[Newest Reality]

32. So, if he submited it in writing....

Witch hunt witch hunt--witch hunt. Witch hunt--hunting witches--hunt witches. Witch hunting witch hunt, hunt, hunt, hunt. Hunt? Witches! Witch hunting witch hunters witch hunting; which witch hunted? Witches! Witch and witches hunted, witch hunt.

...and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.

[VOX]

33. Orange Snowflake. Only shows up wired on Adderall in his safe spaces: Dumbfuckistan backwater towns.

Anything else is a “deep state perjury trap,” aka, the real world.

Like all despots, take away their enablers, and you’ve got nothing but a quivering mass of jello.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

34. Delay tactic..so predictable!

[mahina]

35. He will consider it quivering, quaking, shaking, pissing in his boots.

He will consider it crouching in a fetal position in fear.

It doesn’t get better from here. Disappear!