Monday, November 25, 2019

Federal judge says former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with House subpoena |

"That is to say, however busy or essential a presidential aide might be, and whatever their proximity to sensitive domestic and national-security projects, the President does not have the power to excuse him or her from taking an action that the law requires"

Mr. McGahn is unlikely to appear any time soon because it is virtually certain that the Justice Department will file an appeal and seek a stay of the judge’s ruling. He and his lawyer, William A. Burck, have taken the position that the fight is between Congress and the Trump administration, permitting administration lawyers to handle the case.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/politics/mcgahn-testimony-ruling.html

Beginning on page 112 of Volume 2 Special Counsel Mueller confirms that President Trump attempted to fire the Special Counsel. The following pages of text detail the fall-out between the President and former White House Counsel Don McGahn as the President attempted to convince McGahn to lie to investigators about firing Mueller.[1]
Page 112 Volume II of the Mueller Report
The President Orders McGahn to Deny that the President Tried to Fire the Special Counsel
Overview
In late January 2018, the media reported that in June 2017 the President had ordered McGahn to have the Special Counsel fired based on purported conflicts of interest but McGahn had refused, saying he would quit instead. After the story broke, the President, through his personal counsel and two aides, sought to have McGahn deny that he had been directed to remove the Special Counsel. Each time he was approached, McGahn responded that he would not refute the press accounts because they were accurate in reporting on the President's effort to have the Special Counsel removed. The President later personally met with McGahn in the Oval Office with only the Chief of Staff present and tried to get McGahn to say that the President never ordered him to fire the Special Counsel. McGahn refused and insisted his memory of the President's direction to remove the Special Counsel was accurate. In that same meeting, the President challenged McGahn for taking notes of his discussions with the President and asked why he had told Special Counsel investigators that he had been directed to have the Special Counsel removed.

1) Department of Justice - Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In the 2016 Presidential Election  


Let the subpoenas fly.
  • Trump - P
  • Mike Pence - VP
  • Don McGahn - former White House Counsel
  • Rudy Giuliani - Trump personal attorney
  • Rick Perry - SecEnergy
  • Mike Pompeo - SecState
  • T. Ulrich Brechbuhl - State Department counsel
  • Mick Mulvaney - Dir. Office of Mgt & Budget, acting WH Chief of Staff
  • Michael Duffey - head of OMB national security
  • Russell Vought - acting director of the OMB
  • John Bolton - former National Security Advisor
  • Charles Kupperman - former Deputy National Security Advisor
  • Devin Nunes, Congressman, ranking membeer HIC
  • Derek Harvey - former Trump adviser, now works for Nunes, outed WB
  • Kash Patel, former Nunes staffer, now works on NSC, imposter
Sean Hannity, too

House Judiciary Committee issues subpoena to former White House counsel Don McGahn
  • McGahn subpoenaed April 22
House Democrats Issue First Subpoena in Impeachment Inquiry - The New York Times
  • Pompeo subpoenaed September 27
Rudy Giuliani subpoenaed by House committees weighing impeachment | US news | The Guardian
  • Giuliani subpoenaed September 27
White House Subpoenaed in House Impeachment Inquiry | House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  • Mulvaney and WH subpoenaed October 4
House subpoenas defense secretary, Trump budget chief for Ukraine documents
  • Mark Esper and Vought subpoenaed October 7
Rick Perry hit with subpoena in Trump impeachment probe
  • Rick Perry subpoenaed October 10
OMB and State Department Officials Subpoenaed in House Impeachment Inquiry - House Foreign Affairs Committee
  • Vought, Duffey, Brechbuhl subpoenaed October 25
Obey White House or subpoena? Witness in impeachment probe asks judge to decide - ABC News
  • Kupperman subpoenaed November 1

Not listed up top:
Pentagon and OMB Subpoenaed in House Impeachment Inquiry | Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  • Subpoenas Demand Documents on President’s Decision to Withhold Critical Military Assistance Provided By Congress To Help Ukraine Counter Russian Aggression (October 7)

Special thanks: Rep. Elijah Cummings


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