Don McGahn to testify to House judiciary committee on Friday

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The House judiciary committee is poised to question Donald Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors on Friday, two years after House Democrats originally sought his testimony as part of investigations into the former president.

The long-awaited interview is the result of an agreement reached last month in federal court. House Democrats then investigating whether Trump tried to obstruct the justice department’s inquiries into his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia originally sued after McGahn defied an April 2019 subpoena on Trump’s orders.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...unsel-don-mcgahn-testify-russia-investigation
 
Don McGahn meets with House panel about Trump’s bid to undermine Mueller probe

Former White House counsel Donald McGahn is expected to detail for the House Judiciary Committee on Friday how former president Donald Trump attempted to stymie a federal probe into his alleged Russia ties — bombshell revelations that might once have fueled additional impeachment charges, were they not already public and had it not taken more than two years for Democrats to secure his testimony.

The committee first asked to interview McGahn in 2019, after the release of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 election. McGahn was the most-cited witness in Mueller’s report, explaining how Trump had tried to have Mueller fired and then asked aides to lie about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...0115a0-c52b-11eb-9a8d-f95d7724967c_story.html
 
BidenPresident said:
The House judiciary committee is poised to question Donald Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors on Friday, two years after House Democrats originally sought his testimony as part of investigations into the former president.

The long-awaited interview is the result of an agreement reached last month in federal court. House Democrats then investigating whether Trump tried to obstruct the justice department’s inquiries into his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia originally sued after McGahn defied an April 2019 subpoena on Trump’s orders.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...unsel-don-mcgahn-testify-russia-investigation
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Why behind closed doors the people want to hear what he has to say first hand, not after he takes some deal, to turn traitor
 
Wolverine said:
For what, how much are they giving him to say so, or are they just going to let him live?
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Not sure what you mean. Trump told McGahn to fire Mueller. When McGahn said that would be illegal, Trump returned a week later to tell McGahn to lie about being threatened.
 
As White House counsel, McGahn had an insider’s view of many of the episodes Mueller and his team examined for potential obstruction of justice during the Russia investigation. McGahn proved a pivotal — and damning — witness against Trump, with his name mentioned hundreds of times in the text of the Mueller report and its footnotes.

McGahn described to investigators the president’s repeated efforts to choke off the probe and directives he said he received from the president that unnerved him. He recounted how Trump had demanded that he contact then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to order him to unrecuse himself from the Russia investigation.

https://apnews.com/article/don-mcgahn-house-judiciary-trump-12a2bfe94d640395fdbc6f1e414cd621
 
And he was present for a critical conversation early in the Trump administration, when Sally Yates, just before she was fired as acting attorney general as a holdover Obama appointee, relayed concerns to McGahn about new national security adviser Michael Flynn. She raised the possibility that Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — and his subsequent interview by the FBI — left him vulnerable to blackmail.

https://apnews.com/article/don-mcgahn-house-judiciary-trump-12a2bfe94d640395fdbc6f1e414cd621
 
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