He was there, ready to be questioned. Not too sure what the rest of the post meant, but he was there to be questioned.
The fact that they didn’t even have a contingency plan in place shows just how empty the GOP is. Didn’t ONE AIDE even prepare a list of questions just in case HB appeared?
But…but he was there ready to sit for questions! His showing up was an open offer to sit for questions!
To correct your analogy,
“Pistols at dawn, in public or in private!”
“Okay, pistols at dawn, in the town square where everyone can watch to make sure you don’t have your thugs jump me from behind.”
“No, pistols in a secret field, and afterwards I’ll tell everyone what happened!”
“Um, no.”
You show up in the town square at dawn to call me a coward.
I show up in the town square with my pistols.
That’s not my understanding of the situation, so perhaps I’m wrong.
My understanding is that:
If that not correct?
He didn’t show up for the initial subpoena, sure. But he was there, and could have been called to answer questions… and the GOP just lost its shit.
Sorry, Sage, but for the crowd who routinely ignores their own Congressional subpoenas, I do not find fault with HB showing up to publicly testify to the very same committee that wanted him to privately testify.
It sounds like they were preparing to take a vote on whether to call him, when he disappeared:
The key words being “shortly thereafter”. “Shortly”, not “immediately”.
If I’m called to court, show up, and then someone starts to say mean things about me before I’m called to the stand, I’m probably going to be held in contempt of court for running out the door with my lawyer.
Yes, it was. Every legal expert agrees his plea deal was the norm. Even Legal Eagle.
It could not possibly be clearer that he was there, ready to testify, as long as the testimony were public.
That (last paragraph) is a discussion of the hearing that he’d been subpoenaed for originally, not today’s hearing on his non-compliance.
Yes: he’s shown up multiple times ready to testify.
If Jim Jordan can evade a Congressional Subpoena for January 6th and get away with it, I’m perfectly fine with HB evading a Congressional Subpoena in his Dick Pic investigation.
Then he has testified.
Or not?
Same, but that’s not what was being discussed.
Factually, Hunter will only be prosecuted if the DOJ decides to bring the case and if his father decides to not pardon him. While Garland might go ahead with the prosecution, I suspect that Joe would issue a pardon if real jail time was coming into light.
Not, because he wanted to testify publicly, and the Republicans refused to allow him to testify publicly. They wanted it behind closed doors (quite obviously so they could twist what he said for their own dishonest purposes).
I don’t think Hunter had any realistic expectation that those dimwits would actually question him. But they could have. That was the obvious message, “While you idiots bloviate over my refusal to be questioned, here I am, ready to be questioned.” There’s no other way, IMO, to interpret his attendance.
And it was brilliant.
Let’s not forget this: Comer, before issuing the subpoena, said he would “drop everything” if Biden wanted to testify publicly.
To my knowledge, subpoena targets don’t get to decide that. They can try to negotiate for it but the ultimate decisions comes from the good will of Congress, not on the petulant needs of the target.
A witness’s unreasonable demands aren’t evidence of bravery to stand before Congress and answer questions factually. Everyone has a right to claim the 5th, even before Congress. The President and the Democrats in Congress, I’m sure, could figure out how to release the full transcript of the testimony.
Hunter has no real excuse. He didn’t answer before, he’s not answering now - even on a smaller topic. He hasn’t displayed bravery.
This is not analogous in any way to what happened today.
So he waited to be called to answer questions?