Posted on 11/01/2018 6:01:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Trump said Thursday that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s threat to weaponize committee subpoena power if Democrats win Congress is illegal and grounds for the administration to fight any subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court.
“Pelosi says she’s going to mechanize the speakership and use it as a great negotiation with the president. That’s an illegal statement,” Mr. Trump said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times.
The president remained optimistic about Republicans retaining their House majority, but he fumed about Mrs. Pelosi’s subpoena threat should her party prevail in the midterm elections Tuesday.
He said the threat begged a lengthy court battle.
“That alone takes two years to get it to the Supreme Court — that statement — before you do anything,” he said, becoming animated with indignation. “You heard her the other night.”
Mrs. Pelosi made the remark last week at CNN’s campaign forum.
“Subpoena power is interesting, to use it or not to use it,” Mrs. Pelosi said in an interview with Dana Bash. “It’s a great arrow to have in your quiver in terms of negotiating on other subjects.”
Mrs. Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond when The Washington Times relayed the president’s message.
Mr. Trump also said he wasn’t worried about getting impeached by a Democrat-run House, although many on the left clamor for the move.
“They can play that game, but I can play that game also,” said Mr. Trump, adding that he hoped Democrats would rather get things done for the country.
In an interview in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump also told The Times:
⦁ State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert is “under strong consideration” to replace U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley:
“She’s a talented person...
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IF the dems win the House, God forbid, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them force Nancy out of the speakership. But they are much better than Rs are at message control and putting up a unified front when they need to (i.e. now) to avoid turmoil before the election. Afterward the gloves can come off.
Democrat bipartisanship sums up to negociating policy with legal blackmail.
It would indeed warrant rico charges
Democrat bipartisanship sums up to negociating policy with legal blackmail.
It would indeed warrant rico charges
Interesting how Democrats fight like wildcats while in the minority while GOPe like Amnesty Ryan cut and run while in the majority. Isn’t it?
Trump is very smart to put Pelosi front and center as the face of the Democrat party.
Nancy Pelosi is a reminder that we have been blessed with stupid opponents.
Botox Barbie has to talk out of her ass, because of all the facelifts.
Would be great if we had a comment by some who knows about such a move ...if or not she could really do that and what it actually means if she could???? ANYONE.
So Pelosi threatening to use a subpoena as a political ‘bargaining tool’ ranks as a very illegal ‘blackmail scheme’???
Could you enlarge on that please.
Well I did a bit of digging (because Pelosi’s elevator does’t always travel to the top floor) there has to be a point man doing the heavy lifting....I think this is the guy on her staff.....
‘DAVE RAPALLO’, staff director Armed with subpoena power, OGR, as it’s referred to, will be the hotbed of investigations into the Trump administration.
Rapallo a top attorney from President Barack Obama’s National Security Council - an experienced congressional investigator will be at the center of all this.
11 years as a minority subcommittee director, later serving as Dem. Henry Waxman’s chief investigative counsel on the oversight committee. Rapallo was also general counsel on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Gross Salary for August 2018...$14,375.
Well I did a bit of digging (because Pelosi’s elevator does’t always travel to the top floor) there has to be a point man doing the heavy lifting....I think this is the guy on her staff.....
‘DAVE RAPALLO’, staff director Armed with subpoena power, OGR, as it’s referred to, will be the hotbed of investigations into the Trump administration.
Rapallo a top attorney from President Barack Obama’s National Security Council - an experienced congressional investigator will be at the center of all this.
11 years as a minority subcommittee director, later serving as Dem. Henry Waxman’s chief investigative counsel on the oversight committee. Rapallo was also general counsel on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Gross Salary for August 2018...$14,375.
Nancy is well on her way to causing a couple of defections from within the Democrat Party to the other side.
Ryan is flanking the Trump agenda, joining the democrat political predator pithull like a beagle. Rinos are political predators and not at all the compromising moderates they wish to appear like. They are fully on the side of inquisition.
Well, if a cop threatened to arrest you or investigate you personnally as a means to get concessions from you at the city council, it would be using the color of law to blackmail you to follow a political power agenda.
The Kavannaugh case was such fishing expedition. The rape allegations were meant to trick him into mistakes, a confirmation turned into some test with traps. This is truly a Pharisean time we are living in. The political predation is alive and well.
Thank you........but I’m not sure I understand what it is she’s intending to use though. What exactly is the card she wants to play?
Trump wants to make a deal with democrats, asking a tax cut and military spending in exchange for a democrat Planned Parenthood funding.
Alinsky Pelosie will give him this deal: planned Parenthood , gun control and no tax cut or else impeachment and day in day out litigation and union protest and occupation of congress
This is not negociation and compromise but blackmail.
And effing Rinos who are so called moderates will side with the criminals
No deal!....they never keep it.
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