US House to meet with or without former White House lawyer
Amid calls for his impeachment, Trump tells Don McGhan to ignore a subpoena, but Democrats say ‘he cannot simply refuse to appear’
Washington — Amid growing talk in US Congress of impeaching President Donald Trump, the Democrat-led House of Representatives committee is set to hold a hearing on Tuesday, with or without testimony from Don McGahn, the White House’s former top lawyer. McGahn, who left his post in October, was told by the Trump administration on Monday to disregard a House judiciary committee subpoena demanding that he appear at the hearing to discuss the Russian election meddling investigation. In special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, McGahn was a key witness regarding possible obstruction of justice by the Republican president. Career prosecutors who are not involved in the case have said that the report contains strong evidence that Trump committed a crime when he pressured McGahn to fire Mueller and later urged him to lie about the episode. The justice department issued a legal opinion saying McGahn did not need to appear. Late on Monday, McGahn’s lawyer, William Burck, wrote that his ...
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