October 15, 2022

Will he or won't he? Part 3 on Trump testifying before J6 Committee

 Will he or won't he? Part 3 on Trump testifying before J6 Committee

By Hal Brown



Sunday Update: On MSNBC at least, the speculation as to whether he will testify is leaning toward saying he won't.

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Here are two articles about the possibility Trump will end up testifying before the January 6th Committee:

From The Guardian:


From RAWSTORY:



These articles ask whether  testifying before the January 6th Committee would be wise, and say that his lawyers are cautioning him that it may not be to his advantage to testify only to exact revenge against his enemies.

All of this may amount to nothing but a miniscule Mar-a-Lago hill of beans when it come to influencing Trump.



I still maintain that there's a reasonable chance Trump will end up testifying before the January 6th Committee despite the following reporting:

"Trump also appears to have become more aware about the pitfalls of testifying in investigations, with lawyers warning him about mounting legal issues in criminal inquiries brought by the justice department and a civil lawsuit brought by the New York state attorney’s office."
It is one thing to say that Trump is aware of "the pitfalls of testifying" and quite another to say that's he's convinced that the so-called pitfalls described by lawyers who he probably believes aren't nearly as intelligent as he is ought to be heeded.

Trump is a man who has always been guided by his own grandiose beliefs in his being the smartest person in the room. The "room" as he defines it is the country, hell, the world if not the cosmos. 

Trump is a MAGA moth drawn to the flame of fame.

He knows that if he wants to have the eyes of the nation riveted on him, whether in prime time or during the day, he will push his demand for live coverage of his testimony rather than as in typical testimony given in a deposition prior to or instead of appearing before the full committee live.

I have little doubt that if she's not the top of Trump's most despised list, Nancy Pelosi is in the top three. I assume he watched the last J6 Committee hearing (it was on Fox) so he saw the videos of her during the attack:
If anyone was watching the commentaries about this anywhere but on Fox they heard commentators talking abut how presidential she was. Trump probably thought "how dare she" get so much air time." 

He'd be raging on, in his mind if not out loud, about how he was being cheated out of TV time that was deservedly his. 

I can see him thinking about how foolish the committee was to subpoena him to appear in person. "Perhaps they're bluffing," he might think. "Well, fuck them, I'll call their bluff," he'd think as he basked in his blowhard self-behooved brilliance.

He is well aware that the committee will be hard pressed to deny his acceptance of the subpoena with what will be interpreted by many, if most, in the public as a reasonable request to simply walk into the committee room, be sworn in, and show to the nation that he is cooperating. 

Whether Trump is able to resist this remains to be seen. 

For the reasons described in my two pervious stories (links below and in side column) I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that we won't see him achieve the bragging rights to having been the star of one of the most watched television shows ever broadcast. He might think this would exceed the viewers of the moon landing in 1960 (125-150 million). 

Even if his numbers are much less (and they would be - after all he wouldn't be the first man to walk on the moon) there's a good chance if he was to testify the number of viewers would exceed the 20 million who viewed the first committee hearing and you can bet he would brag bigly about this.





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1 comment:

Ben Kalom said...

Willamette Falls reminds me of Spokane WA. There's a site downtown along the river where the water cascades, not quite as majestically, but it is a wonder to behold.

Couldn't TFG just get it over with, locate some Kool-Aide, and drink it, already? Enough!

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