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Umm, poster Meister, in the interest of time and efficiency lemme offer the following recent post as a way to better inform your understanding of what you watched in the previous 5 Committee hearings and the one you watched today:
(from post #101 in the 'Committee plans to vote..." thread):
"........these proceedings that you have faithfully followed....don't have 'defendants'.
Only witnesses.
It's a 'hearing' .... not a trial. Not an indictment.
However, what it does do is sets the marker of: "Look, we gave him a golden opportunity to come before the Committee and the American people and tell his side of the story."
Which, strive as they might, the Committee has struggled to get ALL of the players-in-the-know to come and 'tell-their-side'.
As we heard today over 50 people-in-the-know have plead the 5th Amendment right to not make statements that could incriminate them criminally.
So those 50+ didn't want to tell what they knew, or what they did. (for example, John Eastman plead the 5th...146 times. Roger Stone plead the 5th to every question. Jeffrey Clark plead the 5th to every question. Michael Flynn plead the 5th to every question from the J6 Committee. Alex Jones plead the 5th "almost 100 times.") Peter Navarro and Mark Meadows are fighting the subpoenas to testify.
Look, these folks know their side of the story better than anyone else.
Yet, they refuse to give their side of the story.....perhaps thinking that their side of the story will incriminate them in criminal activity?
Look, it is like this: The Committee is charged with investigating what happened so it can be prevented in the future.
There is no need for your defensiveness over DonT. He is only being asked with this subpoena to come before the Committee and share with them his side of the story."