Asking because Trump is citing this now while trying to keep documents from being released to the January 6 Commission and prevent his former aides from being subpoenaed to testify.
Sounds like nonsense to me. The Justice Department has also hinted of this continues they'll being charges against aides who refuse subpoenas.
The one assertion that sticks out the most to me in all of this is the one that relates to Bannon. Trump is claiming that his privilege somehow extends to a random person who wasn't even an employee of the executive branch at the time, an approach which no previous President has even attempted to assert, let alone an approach that any court has ever actually upheld.This is what I never understood about Giuliani in again, the 1st impeachment. He was never an executive branch employee, so if called to testify by Congress he had no executive privilege to fall back on. He was clearly neck-deep in the Ukraine stuff, so why wasn't he called in?
The Democrats were very limited in what they did, scoring a lot of own goals in my opinion. The only thing I can think of is they intentionally did not want to strengthen their case against Trump to the point that when Republicans control Congress they don't use the precedent Democrats set against them. Which again shows they never had any real consideration to actively removing him from office, meaning it was all a waste of time.
I forget his name now but there was one guy that was called to Congress to testify but Trump told him not to, so filed a suit and asked a court "who should he listen to?" which is an absolutely valid thing to do there. Pelosi pulls his subpoena for the case to be declared moot. If you're a person that does not care about partisan bullsh**t, what a bullsh**t move that shows you either don't believe in your case or want to retain the power of executive privilege for underlying employees when your party holds the presidency. When Pelosi withdrew the subpoena in response, if I was any one of the other people that was subpoena'd and did not show up, I would've immediately filed the same case because she demonstrated her vulnerability. What's the worst that could've happened, Pelosi would withdraw my subpoena making me no longer potentially in contempt of Congress?
