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1. Thank you CR. “Impeaching” a witness is a legal term meaning the witness’s prior statement is used against them to prove they were telling the truth on an earlier occasion (like when they were being interviewed by the Mueller team under the penalties of perjury)....
2. When witnesses lie in court we say “the witness is spinning us.” When a witness spins, it’s actually a win-win for the prosecutor. Why? Because we then introduce the witness’s prior statement (generally in the form of a grand jury transcript) of the witness’s testimony AND...
3. We get to argue that the witness is obviously lying in court now that he is sitting across from the defendant and is trying to backtrack from his earlier statement to help the defendant get off. The same holds true for a Congressional hearing. If McGahn, Hicks or...
4. Lewandowski lie, contradicting what they told Mueller, they will be “impeached” that is, confronted with what they told Mueller & it will be clear that they are now lying to Congress to protect Trump. I happen to believe they will tell the Congress the truth exactly as they...
5. told Mueller the truth about the many obstruction of justice crimes Trump committed rather than lying about it now to Congress (which would make no sense because they already told Mueller and they could be charged criminally if they now backtracked and lied to Congress)...
6. All of this is to say, it’s a long, slow and frustrating process but #JusticeIsComing.
