The Trump Impeachment Inquiry

It’s my understanding (garnered from a Law and Order episode, natch) that an attorney can not invoke attorney-client privilege for any crimes he may have been a participant in. Any actual lawyers want to weigh in on that one.

“Oh, pardon me.”

Sure he can:
Trump denies knowing indicted Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman despite photos

“Everybody wants a picture with me. Because I’m a stable genius with great and unmatched wisdom. Everybody wants a picture with me. But I don’t know these people. Some of them might be criminals and rapists, I don’t know. And some, I assume, are good people. But everybody wants a picture with me. But I don’t know these people. Never saw them before in my life, believe me.”

“In fact I don’t know Rudy Giuliani, either. Never met the man. Is he the guy they say looks exactly like Count Orlok in Nosferatu? I thought so. Never met him. I’ve never met the man.”

Senator Graham was openly calling for the hearing with Rudy for the specific purpose of getting Rudy to talk about the Bidens. This isn’t a matter of divining the subtext for the reason for the hearing; it was literally the text.

And when Graham floated this idea of opening Rudy up to questions under oath, Dems basically said OH HELL YES GREAT IDEA!!

As if Trump has ever watched a classic silent black&white movie like Nosferatu without proposing colorization and a new script and recording.

Interesting fact: Fruman owns a club in Odessa called “MAFIA RAVE”.

OK, with so much happening here, I sometimes (a lot) overlook certain details. I think one of those details just sank in with me. Do I have this right: Those 2 guys were scheduled to testify before the House tomorrow, but were arrested at Dulles with one way tickets to fly out of the country today?

To Ukraine, no less (according to AP Radio News).

… and they had lunch with the President’s personal attorney right before this flight?

Yes, you have that right.

By arresting them, won’t they now be able to take the 5th if asked about Giuliani?
Maybe Barr was happy to assist in taking them down.

If this happened in an episode of 24 I’d laugh it off as too obvious.

Wait…

It gets better…

https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1182414112866885635?s=19

Well, they weren’t going to testify if they hadn’t been arrested and had been able to leave the country so I guess same difference. I am still worried slippery Don will get out of it.

Some amazing stuff happening today. Amazing as in what the hell is going on?!

Well fuck. Republicans, as the kids today are wont to say: What the actual fuck?

Sent to the Jeffrey Epstein wing?

Maybe, one day, Rudy might surprise everybody and choose to restore his 9/11 legacy by coming clean about everything, especially about Trump.

This will be spun by the WH of course as the desperate ravings of a sick man. They’d show videos pointing to his increasing memory loss and cognitive impairment.

Nobody’s mind would be changed. But it would be great to watch.

ETA: Or maybe he’ll take the fall, claiming I did those things myself. ‘The president had no idea’. Then Trump will pardon him (on humanitarian grounds)

Did Rudy plan on coming back?

After the guilty plea and the jail time, can we just deport him to Russia?

The Americans