Donald Trump says he’d ‘love’ them to testify at the impeachment hearing, but it’s a ‘Democratic scam’
Former White House counsel Don McGahn. Picture: AFP/ BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
The Trump administration’s court filing asked for the delay while it pursues an appeal a day after US district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rejected its legal claim that current and former senior White House officials cannot be compelled to testify before Congress. Trump, on Twitter, said he would “love” to let top officials testify, but added, “It is a Democrat Scam that is going nowhere but, future Presidents should in no way be compromised.”
In May 2018, McGahn, who left his post in October 2018, defied a subpoena from the House judiciary committee to testify about Trump’s efforts to impede the now-completed special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. The subpoena was issued months before the Democratic-led House opened its impeachment inquiry into Trump’s actions concerning Ukraine.
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