White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday minimized House Democrats’ subpoenas of the Trump administration as “nothing more than a dog and pony show” and wouldn’t rule out the White House possibly blocking special counsel Robert Mueller from testifying before Congress.
During an interview with ABC News’ “The Investigation” podcast on Tuesday, Sanders said the White House has made no official moves to block Mueller from appearing before the House Judiciary Committee — which is tentatively set for May 15 — but said it will be discussed at some point.
“I think that’s a determination to be made at this point,” she told ABC. “[Trump’s tweets are] the President’s feeling on the matter and the reason is because we consider this as a case closed as a finished process.”
Trump tweeted over the weekend, appearing to advise the Justice Department that Mueller “should not testify,” but the White House has waffled on whether it intends to actually keep that from happening.
There is no way he testifies. No way.
The president and the DOJ will fight far harder against it than the Democratic leadership will fight for it. There may be some “negotiations” and certainly a few strongly worded letters. And lots and lots and lots of fundraising emails. But that’s pretty much what we’ll get.
"the reason is because we consider this as a case closed as a finished process.”
Educate me: Why does the WH have a say about it?
Golly. So that’s where the slip cover to my love seat that I donated to Goodwill ended up.
gee, I thought Trump was exonerated. Why wouldn’t he want Mueller amplifying that message? You know, no collusion, no obstruction…
Mueller’s appointment ends in less than a month whereupon he’s a private citizen. He will testify.