Thread by @Titania977

Nadler is delivering his opening statement at the "Presidential Obstruction of Justice+Abuse of Power Investigation".
Corey Lewandowski is the only witness.
Rob Porter+Rick Dearborn did not appear b/c the OLC sent a letter to WH Counsel saying they were exempt from testimony.

Ranking Member Doug Collins is delivering his opening statement. He has little patience for Nadler's Folly. Just said that Lewandowski would come without a subpoena, but Nadler issued one anyway... "b/c a subpoena opens a dialogue" 😳🙄

Collins says that this Committee is "the summer re-run season" not a new fall lineup. Brings up that Lewandowski's subpoena stated 10 AM and the hearing is at 1 PM.

Get your popcorn ready. Let's continue with re-run season. New Rules are in effect..

Lewandowski has been sworn in and is delivering a 5 minute summary of his opening statement.

He notes that he has already testified for 20+ hours to various committees in the Senate & the House.

(Corey looks amped+ ready to throw down. I hope the Democrats are ready for him)

Lewandowski says that while Trump's campaign manager, he received hundreds of thousands of emails. Sometimes a thousand a day... then throws a haymaker at Hillary saying... "& unlike Hillary, I don't think I ever deleted any emails"

Ends by saying this is a rabbit hunt.

Nadler jumps right into questions on June 19th 2017 meeting in the Mueller Report p. 90 Vol II.

Lewandowski asks for copy of Mueller Report so he can follow along. He isn't going to make this easy for Nadler.

Nadler, Cicilline are melting down 🤣🤣🤣

Collins calls for "Point of Order" to address Nadler trying to re-start clock when it suits him. Collins wins.

Corey is not giving an inch. He checks Mueller Report for Nadler's reference and takes his time finding it on page 91.

I can hear Trump laughter from here!!! 😂😂😂

Collins interrupts Nadler's stupid questions & calls for another Point of Order b/c Nadler is out of time and not following rules. Nadler says lets put it to a vote, all in favor say "Aye" and Collins screams "ROLL CALL" 😂😂😂

Now the roll is being called.

Clerk tallies votes.. 13 Ayes to 19 Nos

Collins calls for Motion to Dismiss because Nadler isn't following the House Rules.

Cicilline screams for Parliamentary Inquiry. So does Gaetz

Collins hollers ROLL CALL vote to dismiss hearing. 😂😂

Clerk takes role for Dismissal Motion

Roll call to Dismiss is 12 Ayes to 19 Nos.
Nadler moves on with his final point.

Now it is Collins turn for questioning. Before he starts, he says these votes could have been avoided & he thinks Ethics violations might need to be discussed b/c Dems don't follow the RULES.

Collins says that subpoena wasn't necessary b/c Corey volunteered to come on his own.

Corey has testified on these issues multiple times. He wants references b/c his memory needs to be refreshed.

Collins asks if he colluded with Russians?
Corey: No.

Oh, dear. Shelia Jackson Lee jumped some people in line & is now questioning Corey.

She is beating the dead horse about McGahn/Sessions/Trump.
Volume ELEVEN pg eighty-six. WTF, Shelia? This is what Volume 11 looks like, this is Volume II.

She just reclaimed her time from Corey

Shelia Jackson-Lee goes on one of her well documented rants, her time expires, she barrels on in indignation... "The truth shall set you free!" & Nadler says witness will answer the question.

Corey: No question from Jackson Lee, just a rant. 😂😂 Jackson Lee mumbles in rage

Steve Chabot is asking questions like, "Did you collude with Russians?" And statements like, "This is a fake/faux impeachment hearing...& this committee could be doing so much more to help the country"

Ugh. Parliamentary Inquiry from Jamie Raskin.
Tries to trap Corey b/c Raskin says that Corey has strayed from the 4 corners of the Mueller Report b/c Corey said he liked the Patriots 🙄

Steve Cohen is up next (left his 🐥at home). He is trying to bait Corey into losing his cool. Throwing a lot of stuff at Corey, talks trash about his former boss, May (or Nay?) & insinuates Corey tampered with votes in NH.

Cohen has an axe to grind. (Is he being primaries?)

Now it is Jim Jordan's turn. He is giving backstory. Asks if Russia colluded with Trump campaign. Corey says no.

Jordan says Comey & Mueller sat at that table and both gave the same answer as Corey... NO.

Jordan points out that they (Dems) changed the rules last week to allow for Dems on Judiciary Committee attorneys to question witnesses.

Jordan syas to Nader why not focus on Comey's IG Report?

Hank "Guam is gonna tip over" Johnson is up next and starts by saying to Corey, "You are difficult, like trying to clean a 🐟 with a 🥄" (WTF, Hank?)

Hank asks Corey to read the screen. Corey says that like Mueller, he wants the words read to him. 😂

Hank reads the lines. Corey listens politely.
Hank calls Corey a chicken for not delivering the message Trump asked him to deliver to Sessions.

Corey said that he didn't do it b/c he went on vacation.
(Laughter breaks out in chamber) 😂

Ken Buck is up next... thanks Corey for sitting through this harassment. Talks about how some report says that Russians meddled in all kinds of elections/spied on people in many countries in Europe. And Obama & his Justice Department sat idly by and did nothing.

Uh oh. Shelia Jackson Lee just screamed POINT of ORDER and hollered that Buck just called the Democrats "idiots". She says that is going too far. 🙄

Nadler overrules. Buck says he said "useful idiots" and even Nadler laughed.

Corey said that Trump was a private citizen & had no

responsibility to ensure that the election was not meddled with by Russia. That was Obama's job. Says that Clapper, Comey & Brennan had a duty to stop meddling and that NO ONE told Trump or his staff that there was a possibility of Russian interference. That is on them, not Trump

Ted Deutch is beating the dead horse re: POTUS asking Corey to tell Sessions to fire Special Counsel.

Corey says, I'm not a lawyer. *Shrugs*

Deutch rephrases question, Corey doesn't bite. Says I don't agree with your summary.

Deutch whines & says POTUS request = abuse of power

Johnny Ratcliffe is up at bat. He calls Democrats the "Party of Impeachment" and scoffs at their stupid rule change.

No impeachment by collusion, then it was impeachment by obstruction but Mueller put that to death.

Johnny is cracking Corey up. 😂

The Party of Impeachment doesn't care how they find way to impeach Trump- Emoluments, collusion, obstruction, tax crimes... will use anything to get him.

Impeachment by a Sharpie on a Hurricane Map?? 😂😂
Ratcliffe is having fun. No dirt on Trump, Corey? What about Kavanaugh?😂

Karen Bass (D-CA) back to beating dead horse on Trump/Sessions in Mueller Report. (Why does she think she is gonna have any extra insight or new questions?) *Yawn*

Bass did ask why Corey didn't go to DoJ to meet Sessions? She answers her own question by saying Corey wanted to meet with him on neutral turf.

Hmmm.. (Interesting. Maybe b/c Session's office was bugged by McCabe?)

5 minute recess.
Does Nadler look more like a hobgoblin or Tweedledee? I can't decide.

Still on a break

PS. I am watching the hearing on C-SPAN3.

Seriously, if the Russians interfered in our election & sowed discord...they succeeded in the 2nd part of their mission... Dems have played right into the Russian's hand. Dems have gone off the rails with these impeachment proceedings. I bet Pelosi is drinking on her balcony RN.

Matt Gaetz picks up after the break. Per House rules, he can't impugn motives of his fellow committee members, but Corey can.. Why are they doing this?

Corey: Because they hate this President more than they love our country (DAMN!)

Gaetz says that Comey should be sitting in that chair, not Corey. Why did he & his IC companions not brief Trump team? This is what we should be investigating!

Hakeem Jeffries is up next. He just chastised Corey and reminded him that he was in front of Judiciary Committee and he needed to act like it.

Asked Corey if he was the enforcer, the bag man or the ??? and Corey responds with "I am the good looking man" 😂

Jeffries just reclaimed his time from Corey. Won't let him ask a question re: where is this info you are referencing in the Mueller report.

Jeffries is mad that Corey didn't deliver message from Trump to Sessions. (Jeffries mad b/c Corey didn't give message so NO obstruction)🙄

Mike Johnson (R-LA) is talking now. Asking a few q's for clarification.

Any more info on collusion or obstruction to offer?
Corey: No, don't think so

Did you answer q's to SC truthfully?
Corey: Yes

R's scared Corey's testimony may be distorted...
Corey launches into how that

the Dems hate Trump and that a different set of standards are applied to Repubs than Dems.

Johnson thanks him for his service, hard work and for being a self made man.. Yields to Jordan
*buckle up!*

Jordan say no defensive briefing b/c this was an attempt up set up Trump. Nadler should call IG Horowitz but he hasn't even thought about it. Thanks Johnson and yields back to

UGH!!! Mr. Wet Blanket-Screecher... David Cicilline (D-RI)

Cicilline reclaims time from Corey when he asks the page # of Mueller Report.

WHY👏DIDN'T👏YOU👏DELIVER👏THE👏MESSAGE?

Why didn't you give message when you got back from vacay? Why did you give it to Dearborn to give to AG?
Corey: Unlike you, Congressman, I don't live in town!

Cicilline says that Corey committed a crime?

Also, Trump asking private citizen to deliver a message to his AG (which basically was a threat) = Obstruction of Justice in Cicilline's eyes. 🙄😂

Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is up next.
Biggs: Did you read Mueller Report
Corey: No, nobody did.
Biggs: I did
Corey: you are the 1! We have been looking for you! 😂

Biggs: Member of this Committee went on Chris Matthews & said he believed that Trump was working as an agent of the Russians..
Corey: I didn't know that.
Swalwell: THAT WAS ME & I STILL BELIEVE IT!
(Swalwell is an ass 🤡)

Biggs wraps up & Swalwell is next to question Corey

Ok, this is a pissing match. Please take time to watch Swalwell and Corey go at one another.

Swalwell demands Corey read off of the screen.
Corey: No, you need to afford me the same curtesy that you offered to Mueller.

Corey refers to Swalwell as "President Swalwell" 😜

Swalwell asks if this is the 1st time Corey kept a "secret" message from the President in his home safe.

Corey: I keep lots of stuff in my safe. It is a big safe. I have LOTS of GUNS in there!! 😂

Swalwell whines, asks for a Point of Order b/c Corey is mean & won't play games.

Nadler answers, Collins corrects him & says that answer applied to investigation during Nixon Impeachment Hearing

Gaetz asks for Parliamentary Inquiry "Did you just threaten to impeach Lewandowski?"

Cicilline: Parliamentary Inquiry! Screeeeeeeech!

MClintock (R-CA)
Walks thru IC community sketchy manner they went about investigation. Mifsud, Halper involvement with set up of Trump campaign members.

Corey: Don't forget Bruce & Nellie Ohr!

Ted Lieu is next. Starts by stating he is a Democrat & he loves his country, contrary to Corey's earlier comments.

Proceeds to "mansplain" the Mueller Report to Corey & how the RUSSIANS are bad!

After your vacay... POTUS had you back to OO & said if Sessions refused to meet you (again) then he was going to fire Sessions.
Lieu: What do you think about that?
Corey: I took that as a joke.
*Wind goes out of Lieu's sails* 😂

Debbie Lesko (R-AZ)
Scared for our country. Do you think that the Dems will go to any length to undermine the 2020 election?

Corey: we might not agree on a lot, but I believe in this country... partisan politics aside.. I don't think anyone wants to see anyone elected improperly

we all love our country and we are the greatest country the world has ever seen. No President/Candidate should be treated like Trump was.

Lesko yields time to Jordan.
Jordan asks quick question about defensive briefing. Raskin is up next.

Raskin is glib-Refers to Corey as a Senator+ asks what his thoughts would be on Executive Privilege (what Raskin thinks Corey is invoking today)

Corey: Thank you for your belief that I can run & win in NH.

Raskin: snarky, tacky remark re: Corey
Corey: my kids are watching

Mr. Cline (R-VA)
Hearing is grand display of political theater and this committee should be focused on legitimate oversight, but here we are.

Committee is propping up impeachment like a bad re-make of "Weekend at Bernie's" 😂

Segways into the Steele Dossier..

Have you heard of FusionGPS?
Corey: Yes
Cline: You know more than Robert Mueller. Although the dossier was NOT verified, but IC relied on it to get FISA on Trump Campaign. 😂

Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
Trump tries to deflect from his misconduct re: Mueller Report...blah blah...

*crazy eyes activated*

Jayapal: Do you follow the POTUS on Twitter?
Corey: IDK? I need to check and if not, will follow immediately.

Mr. Lewandowski... you are NOT in the Senate YET... you are a WITNESS before this committee and this is MY TIME. I take back my time...

(She's just lost all credibility by trying to pull a power trip on Corey and he has just lost all respect for her)

Jayapal is playing a video clip of Corey on Fredo Cuomo's show.
Tries to say that the President must have something to hide if he doesn't want Corey answering honestly the questions that she puts before him

Greg Steube (R-FL) is next.
Asking Corey to chat about if he knows that Trump has power (under Article II) to fire AG Sessions or Mueller for that fact.

Corey: I am not an attorney, but that sounds right.

Steube: 22 months of investigation, nothing.
Yields back

Val Demings (D-FL)
She loves her country. How many attorneys does it take to protect a President who says he is innocent.

Val= former law enforcement officer and now she gets to make laws. Asks Corey re: his time as police officer in NH.

*Ugh, I want to gauge my eyes out*

Val is kinda a jerk. Maybe she is trying to come off as "tough" but it is totally coming across as bitchy & insincere (kinda like how Kamala acts... not a good look)

You get more with sugar than you do with salt, Val.

Ok, moving on... Correa (D-CA)
Jumps into George Papadopolous-he lied & was convicted of such. Vol I pg 87-how GP kept up communications with Russians.. how GP sent Corey email about Russia...

Correa is all over the place but wants to prove Corey interacted indirectly w/Russia

Correa: Why didn't you contact FBI?
Corey: In hindsight, maybe Clovis should have called them.

Question for Correa: Do you think FBI would have helped if the Trump campaign had called the feds to ask for help? Or maybe the FBI would insert an agent in the campaign to spy?

Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Manafort was a bad boy b/c he gave polling data to Russians.

Corey: Manafort wasn't Campaign Manager. But you know where he is and he is available for questioning. Also ask Rick Gates

Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA)
Bee in her bonnet about lawyers & how President discussed the possibility of Manafort + what he might be telling the Special Counsel. Maybe POTUS encouraged Manafort not to be honest with Mueller?

What about the pardons he promised people?

Scanlon says that during the break, Corey used that time to launch/announce his campaign for Senate via Twitter. (She is disgusted and is done with this witness)

😂😂😂

Up next: Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)
She's a former judge, brandishes her pocket Constitution as evidence then steps in 💩 by using conjecture to prove Trump's guilt b/c he said he liked Wikileaks and b/c he asked the Russians to find HRC's emails. 🙄

Garcia continues on... Muh Wikileaks! Roger Stone! NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! Including this PRESIDENT if he is guilty of breaking the law!

I yield back
(Yay! She needs to go to "how to ask a question school")
I rate her 5 minutes with the score of 1.37 out of 10

Ugh, more Dems.
Joe Neguse (D-CO)
More questions about Corey's note taking abilities & whether or not Corey turned over ALL notes he ever wrote at the request of the President.

Uh oh, Neguse thinks he has stumbled on a nugget of scandal re: Corey notes+his safe.

Secret Messages, rumors that Corey threatened to fire Sessions... (this whole line of questioning is jibber jabber.)

Gentleman's time couldn't expire fast enough for me

Lucy McBath (D-GA)
Special Counsel uncovered SERIOUS crimes against at least 12 individuals..including Russians...

I am from GA, Russians nosed around in Cobb County voter roles+that scares me. Our democracy is too important+ I am glad we are investigating. Protect right to vote

Another Democrat! Yay🙄
Greg Stanton (D-AZ)
Let's talk about Michael Cohen...

(Sorry, I zoned out)
Stanton now asking if Corey ever mentioned anything about Trump traveling to Russia with Trump during 1,000s of hours he sat next to him on campaign.
Corey: No recollection

Stanton: Corey isn't or NEVER was a WH employee
Corey: *shrugs*
Stanton: Parliamentary Inquiry
Nadler: You are right, this is against rules...Trump wasn't President when this convo happened... Orange Man BAD

Stanton continues reading riot act
Nadler: interrupts re: Nixon hearing

Stanton: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW
Deutch: Point of Order-Chairman needs to hold Corey in contempt (they are fighting over whether criminal activity is WH business)

Collins: Parliamentary Inquiry
Was there ever a doubt we weren't trying to find a way to hold Corey in contempt?

Nadler: You know that is not a proper Parliamentary Inquiry question.
Anyway, Corey needs another 5 minute break.

(Hopefully, Corey will take the time to tweet some more during this break 🥳😜)

About to start back up...
Who is Zoe Lofgren slapping? 😯

Where is Sensenbrenner? He is the last remaining House Manager chosen by former Chairman Henry Hyde to try impeachment case of Bill Clinton in the Senate.

Why didn't he question Corey? Did I miss him?

Madeleine Dean (D-PA)
Plays video of Corey.
Corey: How is this relevant?
Dean: I will ASK the questions!

Mr. Chairman, on this 223rd Constitution Day, we must get to bottom of this corruption...

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL)
Yapping about Rick Dearborn

Collins: Parliamentary Inquiry-You saying Trump doesn't have right of Executive Privilege?

Nadler: *How much longer is this going to drag on?*

Mucarsel-Powell: Ranking Member Collins this isn't a reality TV show

Mucarsel-Powell: Let's get something clear. Presidents cannot obstruct justice and ignore Congressional subpoena.

Collins: Point of Order-I move to strike her words "President cannot continue to obstruct justice" from the record.

Nadler: I will allow it.

Collins: *NOPE*

Collins wins again. Nadler loses.
Mucarsel-Powell changed words to "No President should be allowed to obstruct justice"

Next up is Veronica Escobar (D-TX)
*I am just gonna ask questions that I would have asked Rob Porter b/c that is all I prepared for*

Basically story-time, "Rob Porter and the Angry Orange Man" Everything she is saying is fiction, she is also using different voices while reading.

Escobar yielded her time to Nadler.

Nadler is telling Corey that he hasn't decided if he is going to hold him in contempt.

*All it shows is that Nadler really has contempt fro President Trump*

Gaetz: Parliamentary Inquiry Mr. Chairman, did you have that little speech prepared

Nadler: No..now lets move on to staff questioning

Collins: Point of Order Rule 2J (reads a lot of info about employee contract & says lawyer Berkeis a consultant NOT a staff member.. can't be allowed to question witness)

Nadler: I overrule this Point of Order look at Schippers

Collins: Not so fast, Tweedledee...
Schippers was hired as consultant AFTER the Judiciary announced an Impeachment Inquiry. You have not done so! You have danced around the issue. Consultant is not in the rule change from last week... NOT employees of Committee
(Nadler is f*cked)

Jim Jordan chimes in: So you changed the rules last week but now you don't want to follow those new rules?!?!

Collins: Be careful Nadler, this is not the road you want to go down.

Nadler: I overrule Point of Order

Collins: I move to appeal the ruling of the chair
Zoe Lofgren: I move to table the appeal of the ruling of the chair

Nadler: Clerk will call the role, where is the clerk?

*Clerk is hiding under her desk*

Clerk begins to call the role. (This is a farce!)

*Nancy needs a drink*

The Dems should be embarrassed at their behavior. I hope Corey is live-tweeting this.

Clerk reports: 19 Ayes & 8 Nos

Multiple Parliamentary Inquiries by Gaetz & Jordan

Cicilline: REEEEeeeeee!!! That is not a Parliamentary Inquiry
Nadler: Berke has 30 minutes to question the witness

Someone just moved to adjourn.
Nadler: *Holy F*ck, roll call*
Clerk: Roll Call

Collins: Votes Aye on motion to adjourn (lots of Republicans have left chamber)

Clerk: 8 Ayes, 20 Nos

Nadler: Berke has 30 minutes to question witness...

Andy Biggs: Parliamentary Inquiry
Explain more about definition of contractor vs employee

Lofgren: I know everything

Ok, BUCKLE UP.

White House Counsel just objected. Nadler is like, you aren't a witness, these are our rules & my committee! Get out of that chair!

Cicilline: REEEEEEeeeeeeee!!!!!!! HOW DARE YOU, sir!!!!

Barry Berke plays video of Corey saying you plead the 5th only when you are guilty. Did you get immunity from Special Counsel?

Corey: where in the report is this question?

Berke: answer the question

Corey: That is a question for Mueller-I have already asked and answered this

Berke: Were you given immunity?

Corey: I appeared voluntarily. See page 77 of Mueller Report

Berke: Shows another clip & says that Corey lied to American public b/c Corey had already met with SC

Corey: *Bitch, I only have to tell the truth when under oath*

Corey: I am not going to allow you to use me as a back door to Mueller's methods. If you want to know that, call Mueller back in here. It is not my fault that you failed to ask him that when you had the chance.

May 14, 2019: re AG meeting/Trump
Corey: I have no obligation to tell the truth on tv with the media b/c they aren't honest to the American people.

Media lies about me all of the time. They are also inaccurate.

I may have been not accurate in that tv show.

Berke is going after Lewandowski in an aggressive manner. He wants to establish that Corey lies when he sees fit and that the testimony that he gave to the SC might not be truthful.

Berke doesn't realize that this aggressive tact will cause future witnesses to plead the 5th.

Berke further insists that Corey didn't want to meet Sessions at the DoJ b/c he doesn't want it on the record.

More conjecture by Berke, Corey has a couple of good retorts... then POINT of ORDER!

Cicilline: The WITNESS doesn't get to ASK questions!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Berke has pointy shaped teeth. It makes him look menacing.

Corey: Which book are you referring to? I have written 2 NYT Bestsellers.
Cicilline: REEEEEE!!! Point of Order! The witness needs to answer the question.

Corey: I did. I wrote "Let Trump be Trump" available at fine book stores everywhere.

Berke is trying to insinuate that Corey heard from WH staff that he was being considered for a position (on the same level as Jared) and then Trump asked him to deliver a message to Sessions for Trump.

Total conjecture, but provides talking points for the Dems