House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Thursday that he doesn’t plan on issuing a subpoena for former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s testimony.
“We haven’t taken anything off the table,” Schiff told CNN. “But if we are proceeding in a rationale way where we are trying to be fair to the President and fair to the American people, he should testify before the triers of fact, which are the senators.”
“There’s little to be gained by having him testify separately and then have the Senate get the stale records,” he continued. “If we’re doing this rationally and we’re trying to achieve a fair trial, he should testify before the Senate.”
After refusing to show up for his scheduled hearing in the House’s impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, Bolton announced on Monday that he’d comply with a potential subpoena in the Senate impeachment trial.
However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled that he won’t have Bolton testify, and other GOP senators don’t seem eager to hear from the former national security adviser either.
He will not respond to a House subpoena, citing executive privilege or some other such crap anyway. Let the Senate farce proceed without calling him and then make the purple state Repukes pay the price in 2020.
Schiff is the parent that takes away your car keys and grounds you for poor grades, yet somehow every Saturday night there you are, out on the town partying with your friends.
Well I guess there is nothing to see there.
But but but… if we’re doing this “rationally” we’ll admit that he’ll never be asked to testify in the Senate trial, so the House is the only shot. Sheesh.
The truth is Trump did it. He committed a major crime, tried to cover it up, and has obstructed the investigation of it.
If the truth comes out fully, Republicans would have to remove him.