Pelosi's Most Brilliant Gambit Yet: Goad Trump into being a Witness against himself!
Left to his own devices, Trump would surely love to testify and testify in person on live TV.
He couldn't resist the invitation. He thinks he can charm anybody. Just think of the thrill of taking down his enemies and accusers face-to-face on live television. Huge ratings. I mean HUGE.
And he would win bragging points for juicing the ratings for the hearings – which he would say were a snooze until he took the stage and woke everybody up!
Of course, no sane lawyer or adviser would urge him to do it. But Trump has now surrounded himself by a bunch of yes-persons. Even some of his legal "briefs" are clearly dictated at least in part by the man himself. He thinks he knows more about war than the generals, more about diplomacy than the diplomats, more about the economy than the economists, so why not more about the law than the lawyers?
Of course, the people around him will try to sit on him, chain him to his desk, etc. And his supporters had better hope that they succeed, for once, in making him keep his mouth shut.
But you gotta admire Pelosi's attempt. This is surely her most brilliant bit of gamesmanship yet ... she's trying to goad Trump into being a witness against himself ...
God, wouldn't it be grand if the gambit succeeded!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-impeachment-trump-nancy-pelosi-face-the-nation-trump-has-every-opportunity-to-present-his-case-in-impeachment/
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We are very fortunate to have her. We will forever owe her a debt of gratitude... and many still owe her an apology for their ageist, insulting and denigrating comments.
Thank you Nancy Pelosi! 
She could add that the ratings during his testimony would probably slump. I'm guessing he'd take that bait and run with it. 
I saw your post only after posting mine, and then right above it.
if Pelosi continues and intensifies the jabbing, à la ...
"Of course I *completely* understand that the President would not want to come and testify. Unlike Hillary Clinton who readily testified *for 10 hours* in the Bengazi hearings, he lacks the courage, stamina, and mental agility to handle the questions, and every day that he is not on the stand will remind America of that. But of course that is fine by the house majority, since it allows us to keep proper control over the proceedings."
Bwahaha 
and then either:
1) WILD HORSES COULDN'T KEEP HIM AWAY and he shows up and starts incriminating himself in ten entirely new and original ways till Sunday,
or
2) his base grows disenchanted that he's letting "a little old lady" verbally spank him like that, repeatedly. They can forgive him anything, even cosying up to Putin, but not for being a p***y.
