Rudy Giuliani thinks he’s going to be arrested
This week the House impeachment inquiry sent out subpoenas and document requests to a number of people involved with his Ukraine extortion scandal. A number of those folks, including a frantic Rudy Giuliani, a hapless Mike Pompeo, and a particularly salty Mike Pence, have publicly told the House to shove it.
This has led to a situation where the House has to decide whether to go into court and have a judge arrest these people for contempt of court – which is a slower process but will keep them behind bars indefinitely – or simply have the House Sergeant-at-Arms arrest them, which would be immediate but would probably then see them freed from jail in time for dinner.
This legitimate quandary over how to arrest lawbreaking office holders has led various House Democrats to float various ideas. For instance Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib told her constituents this week that it’s not yet clear if the local police would end up arresting Donald Trump’s people or what. This has led Rudy Giuliani to go typically off the deep end.
Rudy tweeted that Tlaib’s talk of arresting people is “clearly referring to Donald Trump, his lawyers (government and private) and the administration officials to whom they have sent their unauthorized letters.” Well okay then. The House impeachment inquiry isn’t going to send police into the White House to arrest Donald Trump (that’ll only happen after he’s stripped of his office). But Rudy may be right when he points to the possibility of his own arrest. And yeah, we won’t be surprised if Pompeo is arrested before long. No one gets to simply ignore a congressional subpoena in relation to an impeachment inquiry. Lock them up!
