Minority Leader ready to get heavy weekly fines & possible jail time for contempt, etc
McCarthy to Commit 'Multiple Crimes' by Refusing Jan. 6 Subpoena: Kirschner
Glenn Kirschner said Saturday that the House minority leader would "rather commit crimes himself" than discuss what he knows about Donald Trump's actions.
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House investigators issued a subpoena for McCarthy, a California Republican, as well as four other GOP members of Congress on May 12. The House minority leader, an ally of former President Donald Trump, has been highly critical of the committee's work since it began last year, and in a Friday statement asserted that he was unlikely to comply. The 11-page response to the January 6 committee by McCarthy's legal counsel argued that the House members were "not exercising a valid or lawful use of Congress' subpoena power."
"While Congress maintains a vast and awesome power of constitutional oversight to serve as an important piece of our system of checks and balances and separation of powers, it is undemocratic for a majority party to attempt to use the full ******* of the federal government to attack perceived political rivals," the California Republican's lawyer wrote.
"I think as a matter of principle the J-6 committee must refer Kevin McCarthy for a criminal contempt of Congress if he chooses to thumb his nose at the subpoena," the legal expert, who has three decades of trial experience, said. "Somebody better tell Kevin McCarthy to buckle up buttercup, because there are a whole lot of crimes that you will be committing if you continue to conceal the misconduct of [former President] Donald Trump—the crimes of Donald Trump from the J-6 committee and by extension from the American people," Kirschner continued, adding that McCarthy may "potentially" be committing the crime of "accessory after the fact" as well as "misprision of a felony."
After the interview, Kirschner released a YouTube video doubling-down on his assessment. He said that McCarthy would "rather commit crimes himself" over discussing what he knows about the former president's actions with the House investigators.
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Poster's Note: Going to JAIL is your option, Mr McCarthy. McCarthy needs to be incarcerated until he agrees to testify. One of the instigators of the "Just Say No" to Obama Republicans, 9 biased Republican committees on Clinton's Benghazi, his laundry list of being an obstructionist in Congress are well known. Time for him to miss Thanksgiving & Christmas 2022 with wife & the ******* to remind him the price of being a butthole is. Interesting that his lawyer starts mentioning "constitution & undemocratic" as the reason McCarthy won't testify ... god knows they abused the constitution & democracy often during their control of congress. HURTS when its YOU, doesn't it McCarthy?
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