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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 05:09 PM Jul 2018

House Republicans Block Subpoena of Putin-Meeting Interpreter

Source: MSN

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee blocked on Thursday a request by panel Democrats to subpoena the interpreter who attended President Trump’s otherwise private meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday.

After committee chairman Devin Nunes (R.,Calif.) initially refused to recognize Representative Adam Schiff’s (D., Calif.) call for a vote to compel the interpreter’s private testimony, the panel defeated the motion along party lines, 11–6.

“This is an extraordinary remedy, I realize,” Schiff reportedly told his colleagues on the Committee. “But then it’s extraordinary for the president of the United States to ask all of his senior staff essentials to leave the room and have a conversation with an adversary, and then in a public conversation disavow his own intelligence agencies and in many respects disavow his own country.”

The White House has not been forthcoming with specifics about the substance of Monday’s meeting in Helsinki, Finland, prompting condemnation from congressional Democrats eager to know what Trump and Putin discussed.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republicans-block-subpoena-of-putin-meeting-interpreter/ar-AAAjKX3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=msnbcrd

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House Republicans Block Subpoena of Putin-Meeting Interpreter (Original Post) TomCADem Jul 2018 OP
Mueller will get her. BigmanPigman Jul 2018 #1
TRAITORS! Chickensoup Jul 2018 #2
Not to toot my own horn, but I brought up subpoeaning the translator before the meeting Yavin4 Jul 2018 #3
How could they possibly object to this? Bayard Jul 2018 #4
Almost as much as Trump being charged with Treason, Pachamama Jul 2018 #5
GOTV Me. Jul 2018 #6
What Are They Trying to Hide? erpowers Jul 2018 #7
Not hard to figure out PSPS Jul 2018 #8
Is there a list of these traitors? jpak Jul 2018 #9
#PutinsWinsAgain and the GOP is now The #PartyOfPutin BadGimp Jul 2018 #10
Mueller blue-wave Jul 2018 #11
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2018 #12

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. Mueller will get her.
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 05:10 PM
Jul 2018

Our Dem reps are trying and trying but McConnell and Ryan are acting like Russian Agents in this conspiracy. I have to hand it to the Dems...they keep trying. I would be more than frustrated.

Bayard

(21,802 posts)
4. How could they possibly object to this?
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 05:36 PM
Jul 2018

Unless they've already been told what was said, and just don't want it revealed to Dem's.

Goddamn these people! Conspirators in treason. There will be a reckoning.

Pachamama

(16,873 posts)
5. Almost as much as Trump being charged with Treason,
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 05:40 PM
Jul 2018

...I am looking forward to it being revealed that Nunes is a Russian Asset and Traitor and being arrested....

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
7. What Are They Trying to Hide?
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 06:03 PM
Jul 2018

So, what is it that the Republicans are afraid will come out if the interpreter was forced to testify under oath? Are they scared that it will be proven that Russia and Putin have something on Trump? Are the scared that it will come out that Putin did try to sway our election in favor of Donald Trump? Are they scared it will be revealed that there was collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia? If they have nothing to hide you would think the would want the interpreter to testify under oath.

PSPS

(13,512 posts)
8. Not hard to figure out
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 06:13 PM
Jul 2018

continue of the flow of russian mob/kremlin money to the trump organization to keep it afloat

moscow trump tower

get rid of sanctions ("mulligan" on ukraine)

take direction on future cabinet and other appointments/nominations (already covered with the GOP congress during their private meeting with putin earlier this month)

commiserate about all the enemies they share (press, fake news, etc.) which putin uses to make trump feel "close" to him

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