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Thank you for the kind words, Delilah. Successfully cross-examining a hostile witness takes practice, discipline and patience. I thought Representatives Hank Johnson and Karen Bass did a nice job. Johnson developed the fact that Trump dictated to Lewandowski a very important ...
2. message to be delivered to AG Sessions, the substance of which plainly constituted obstruction of justice. Tellingly, Lewandowski did not deliver the message. Think about that - a US president gives you a message to tell the AG to shut down an investigation into
3. Russian inerference in the US presidential election, that’s a VERY big deal and a VERY important message. But Lewandowski DID NOT DELIVER IT! Rep Johnson asked him why he did not deliver it. Lewandowski was caught off guard. We all KNOW he didn’t deliver it because
4. he knew it was wrong & he probably intuitively knew it was criminal. Not having a good lie at the ready, Lewandowski said, “umm. . . I went to the beach, I went on vacation.” That was obviously a lie-that was not the reason he refused to deliver Trump’s message to Sessions.
5. Rep Bass took Lewandowski to task on the fact that he did not want to meet Sessions at DOJ because he would have to sign in and there would be a record/log of the meeting. It’s obvious that he knew it was wrong so he didn’t want to leave a paper trail to prove his misdeeds.
6. Congressional questioners need to get disciplined and they will make some headway on bringing Trump’s crimes to life and to light for the people.
