I have been totally supportive of the House leadership conduct of the investigation into the Trump regime crimes up till now, but with Hope Hicks' antics of yesterday, they are really risking blowing it.
Jerrold Nadler, who I have deep respect for is proving that he doesn't really get how this can be done effectively, perhaps that is the result of him running in one of the very safest of districts for him. His voters are already there, he seems to have little idea of how to get more voters in more Congressional districts to see through the Trumpian crimes that will lead to stopping them and holding the criminals accountable. He seems to have the idea that that will be accomplished by nice, neat orderly legal practices more appropriate to a court in which a judge will be making a decision, I don't think his process would work very effectively with a jury, it certainly won't work to do what needs to be done.
Perhaps that same phenomenon of a great person but who, being from an entirely safe seat, something that she, herself has noted, leads Nancy Pelosi to a reticence that leads her to not agree to opening this as an explicitly named impeachment inquiry. While I agree with her that the exercise of an impeachment is futile with the Republican-fascist control of the Senate, the use of an impeachment inquiry could be used to attack their part as accomplices and protectors of the Trump regime. Nancy Pelosi is concerned about losing members holding marginally held districts, at this point she's risking discouraging loyal Democrats who are already there.
At the very least it's time to compel people like McGahn, Hicks to testify,fully, in public, on TV, it's time haul their asses into court and ordered to testify, knocking down the obstruction of the Trump regime and its lawyer thugs. It's time to enforce contempt against Mnuchin, Barr and the rest of those who are already in contempt of Congress, it's time to arrest them. If anyone thinks Mnuchin will care about the highest fine that the Congress is going to press against him, they should think again.
The courtly timeline of the leadership in Congress is already risking backfiring against Democrats and democracy, the t's have been crossed, the i's have been dotted, the commas and apostrphes are all in the right places. The time of laying out a case that this is obstruction of a legal and Constitutionally mandated invesigation is passed, it's time to put the case in front of the third article branch and test them to see if Trump's bet that he and Senate Republicans have stuffed the courts with partisan fascists is true because it is almost a certainty if he has then all of the Constitutional framing has fallen in due to unchecked rot. It's time to find out if it still works, it is time to find out if it needs to be condemned as a hazard to pulbic safety.
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