{"id":175488,"date":"2021-02-05T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/05\/candy-ass-punk\/"},"modified":"2021-02-05T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:07:00","slug":"candy-ass-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/05\/candy-ass-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy-Ass Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/04\/house-democrats-trump-testify-impeachment-465923\">will not testify at his impeachment trial<\/a>, because he a frightened little wimp.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, when push comes to shove, he is a coward:<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump will not testify in the Senate\u2019s upcoming impeachment trial, a spokesman for the former president said Thursday, explicitly rejecting a request from House Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Jason Miller, a spokesperson for the former president, said Trump \u201cwill not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding,\u201d echoing the central theme of Trump\u2019s defense in the trial. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Trump earlier Thursday, the House\u2019s lead impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said Trump\u2019s testimony was necessary because his lawyers\u2019 first official response to the impeachment charge \u201cdenied many factual allegations set forth in the article of impeachment.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u201cYou have thus attempted to put critical facts at issue notwithstanding the clear and overwhelming evidence of your constitutional offense,\u201d Raskin wrote. \u201cIn light of your disputing these factual allegations, I write to invite you to provide testimony under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, concerning your conduct on January 6, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The request from House Democrats comes just five days before Trump is set to be put on trial on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which left five people dead.<\/p>\n<p> Raskin specifically asked that Trump testify sometime next week, between Monday and Thursday. The trial is slated to begin on Tuesday and is expected to last around one week.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021,\u201d Raskin wrote.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is about showing up Donald Trump as a weakling.<\/p>\n<p>Well played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump will not testify at his impeachment trial, because he a frightened little wimp. Unsurprisingly, when push comes to shove, he is a coward: Donald Trump will not testify in the Senate\u2019s upcoming impeachment trial, a spokesman for the former president said Thursday, explicitly rejecting a request from House Democrats. Jason Miller, a spokesperson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[585,573,560,374,549],"class_list":["post-175488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cowardice","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-politics","tag-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}