Jeffrey Clark to testify Friday? Get the popcorn ready

[FakeNoose]

By Gene Collier, columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 27, 2021

Friday is the day all the fiddling stops, by this estimation, the day the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack finally takes its first poke at a weight-bearing log in a seemingly interminable game of Jenga, Ultimate Politics edition.

Friday is when Jeffrey Clark plans to actually show up and testify to Congress about the elaborate if politically preposterous process that very nearly overturned an American election. Mr. Clark, a Philadelphia legal scholar, is part of Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania connection, the other being U.S. Rep. Scott Perry of Harrisburg, who represents the mid-state 92nd District.

It was Mr. Perry, the noted Trump sycophant, who by most accounts connected Mr. Trump to Mr. Clark, whom the former president hoped to install as attorney general and a kind of end-of-plot closer who could leverage the Justice Department to halt the final certification of ballots.

Mr. Clark will be the first Trump official to comply with a subpoena, and unless he tirelessly invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, plenty of Jenga logs might soon fall in the wake of his testimony. Plenty are seriously wobbly as it is.

On Sunday night, Rolling Stone published an investigative piece detailing how two of the former president’s flunkies helped Congressional Republicans organize and plan the seditious events of Jan. 6, two operatives who made it plain they felt abused by Mr. Trump (really!) and eager to testify publicly as well, even as they’ve already been in communication with members of the House committee.

Both of these auxiliary operatives told Rolling Stone they had multiple Jan. 6 planning conversations with Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert and/or their top staffers.

I know, all of whom you’d never, ever suspect, right? (Snort!).

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Gene Collier is one of my favorite columnists in the Post-Gazette. His usual subjects are the Pittsburgh sports teams, mainly the Steelers, but he occasionally wanders into politics as well. I find his commentary refreshing!

[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... I hope it's televised. Friday is a bad day for most news followers... but something big will carry over to the Sunday shows and next week.

[gab13by13]

3. Not.

[Bev54]

7. None of the testimony has been public yet

So I doubt this will be. Everything behind closed doors right now so others do not know what has been said and try to fit their narrative around it. The time for public hearings is coming but not yet, must get their ducks in a row first.

[gab13by13]

2. I was happy about this when I first heard it,

but now there is talk, and I don't know if it's true or not, that Clark will not be testifying under oath. I hope that this is not true because without a threat of perjury Clark is just going to put out the GQP/Trump talking point.

[FakeNoose]

4. If he's not testifying under oath, it won't mean spit

Just sayin'

[zebrapa]

5. Under Oath

CNN and the Guardian, among others, state that the will be testifying under oath.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I wonder if Clark will assert the 5th Amendment

Clark is facing disbarment which is a civil proceeding. If you take the 5th in a civil proceeding that assertion can be used against you. This will be fun to watch

Clark may prefer being disbarred to going to jail