Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone set to testify before Jan. 6 committee on Friday

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So what will he do?

Tell the truth?

Plead the 5th?

Call Cassidy Hutchinson a liar?

Two out of three ain't bad.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/trum...on-friday.html


Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone set to testify before Jan. 6 committee on Friday

KEY POINTS
  • Former President Donald Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone is expected to testify Friday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
  • The panel had issued a subpoena to Cipollone, saying it has obtained evidence that he “repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities on January 6th and in the days that preceded.”
  • Cipollone is expected to meet with the committee under subpoena for a transcribed interview, NBC reported.

Former President Donald Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone is expected to testify on Friday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News on Wednesday.

The panel had issued a subpoena to Cipollone last week, saying it has obtained evidence that he “repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities on January 6th and in the days that preceded.”

Cipollone is expected to meet with the committee under subpoena for a transcribed interview, NBC reported.

A spokesman for the select panel did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

The committee had openly called on Cipollone, who was at the White House for key moments before and during the riot, to cooperate with investigators.

“Trump does not want Mr. Cipollone to testify here” because the evidence shows that he and his office “tried to do what was right,” the committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said last month.

Cheney issued that call during one of the committee’s public hearings laying out the initial findings from its yearlong investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S Capitol by a violent mob of Trump’s supporters.

The panel’s next public hearing, its seventh so far, is scheduled for July 12 at 10 a.m. ET.

Cipollone featured prominently in last week’s bombshell testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

Hutchinson said in sworn public testimony that Cipollone warned her before Jan. 6 that “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable” if Trump followed through on plans to go to the Capitol while Congress had convened to confirm President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

If Trump went to the Capitol — as he said he would do during a rally near the White House that shortly preceded the riot — then “it would look like we were obstructing justice,” Cipollone said, according to Hutchinson.

Trump ultimately returned to the White House after the rally. As the riot unfolded, Cipollone urged Meadows to act to get Trump to quell the attack, Hutchinson testified.

“I remember Pat saying something to the effect of, ‘Mark, we need to do something more. They’re literally calling for the vice president to be effing hung,’” Hutchinson said.

“Mark had responded something to the effect of, ‘You heard him, Pat. He thinks Mike [Pence] deserves it. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong,’” she said.
I doubt he will plead the 5th. It’s very rare any attorney that plans to continue practicing law would ever do that. He will likely plead privilege to any conversation with Trump directly if the subject matter is unrelated to the campaign or elections. Since he isn’t the president’s lawyer there is no attorney client privilege but as White House counsel his privilege is to the presidency which is different. Also he’ll likely have to testify to anything he said to anyone except trump or even if to trump if others are present.

Should be interesting. Particularly if he corroborates Hutchinson’s testimony. I guess then folks like Salty and Levi will come up with some other claims from the idiotnets
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Will y’all be glued to the TV?
It won’t be on tv, but if it were I’d watch.
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Will y’all be glued to the TV? Originally Posted by oilfieldace
Nope. Will you?

Per the OP - Cipollone is expected to meet with the committee under subpoena for a transcribed interview
Nope. Will you?

Per the OP - Cipollone is expected to meet with the committee under subpoena for a transcribed interview Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
Well of course that's how they do it. Do you really think any of those witnesses testified Cold Turkey? This Hearing isn't going to change anything, no matter the outcome.
Do you suppose if by some highly unlikely event they find Trump guilty of anything, do you suppose they will impeach him again? .....
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Do you suppose if by some highly unlikely event they find Trump guilty of anything, do you suppose they will impeach him again? ..... Originally Posted by 00 gauge
Nope. But maybe he'll be banned from ever holding Federal office again.

And maybe he'll be taking it up the pooper from Rudy in the Big House.

I'll take either.
Nope. But maybe he'll be banned from ever holding Federal office again.

And maybe he'll be taking it up the pooper from Rudy in the Big House.

I'll take either. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
That's the goal entirely. They don't care how they do it either.
Nope. But maybe he'll be banned from ever holding Federal office again.

And maybe he'll be taking it up the pooper from Rudy in the Big House.

I'll take either. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
... You're just jealous. ...

#### Salty
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Just cant get the trump out of their heads.

He will eat them alive from the inside out lol
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That's the goal entirely. They don't care how they do it either. Originally Posted by Levianon17
He’ll get his due. Hook that crook!

And yes, he is a carbuncle on the inner thigh of America that must be excised. Selective memory, revisionist history and voluntary ADD will not or should not save that criminal piece of shit.

He preyed on the soul of America. He betrayed his oath.
He’ll get his due. Hook that crook!

And yes, he is a carbuncle on the inner thigh of America that must be excised. Selective memory, revisionist history and voluntary ADD will not or should not save that criminal piece of shit.

He preyed on the soul of America. He betrayed his oath. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
I think that's more opinionated than fact. But like I had stated earlier this Hearing won't change anything.
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It is absolutely my opinion. Others share that opinion.

Others believe Jan 6 was a peaceful protest and that Trump had nothing to do with it.

I believe you’ve made comments to that effect.
It is absolutely my opinion. Others share that opinion.

Others believe Jan 6 was a peaceful protest and that Trump had nothing to do with it.

I believe you’ve made comments to that effect. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
What was filmed on Television wasn't all the way peaceful. What you fail to realize is the Government isn't watching our backs. The Democratic Party has been fucking around with Trump for six years. If Trump has acted criminally he should have already been convicted and sentenced by now. There has been a lot of flaws pointed out in this Hearing but the Committee doesn't care it's all about perception nothing more. They see it if the people perceive Trump as being a threat to the country, then they've won. Nothing else will really matter.