{"id":40089,"date":"2019-12-02T01:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40089"},"modified":"2019-12-02T01:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T01:03:52","slug":"trump-decides-to-forgo-offer-to-defend-himself-at-judiciary-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40089","title":{"rendered":"Trump decides to forgo offer to defend himself at Judiciary hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachmentinquiry%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nadler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40090\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nadler-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nadler-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nadler-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nadler-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nadler.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who would&#8217;ve thought this might happen? Well, I guess I would have thought it.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump and the White House legal team has informed the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Jerrold Nadler (pictured) that the president won&#8217;t participate in the panel&#8217;s hearing Wednesday over whether to impeach him. They&#8217;re going to rely exclusively on Trump&#8217;s defenders on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this ought to be just special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/12\/01\/trump-impeachment-response-house-judiciary-074712\">Judiciary Committee Democrats<\/a> have given the president the opportunity to defend himself against allegations that he has abused the power of his office by soliciting a foreign government for personal political help; that charge lies at the heart of the pending impeachment of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Did the president want to take part? Nope. He&#8217;s going to stand behind the deflecting shields held by the likes of Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Jim Jordan of Ohio. I&#8217;m sure both of them, among others will do their best to change the focus away from the president&#8217;s conduct to other matters, such as impugning the motives of those who have leveled the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what that means? It means a repeat of what we heard from GOP defenders on the House Intelligence Committee, which launched the impeachment inquiry before handing off to the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>And the president will accuse House Democrats of refusing to grant him a fair hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachmentinquiry%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would&#8217;ve thought this might happen? Well, I guess I would have thought it. Donald Trump and the White House legal team has informed the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Jerrold Nadler (pictured) that the president won&#8217;t participate in the panel&#8217;s hearing Wednesday over whether to impeach him. 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