Today’s Don McGahn subpoena is just the start of the Donald Trump impeachment parade
We can’t call it impeachment yet, because Democratic House leaders haven’t publicly committed to going through with it, so let’s call it the impeachment parade instead. The House is about to parade the key witnesses in front of the television cameras, in order to educate the public on Donald Trump’s crimes and abuses. Accordingly, former White House Counsel Don McGahn was subpoenaed today – but that’s just the start.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced today that he’s issued a subpoena to Don McGahn. But his committee has already authorized him to also subpoena Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, and McGahn’s former deputy Ann Donaldson. Based on the Mueller report, it appears these people are all willing to give cooperative testimony to the House. The subpoenas are there to help provide legal cover.
You’d have to ask Nadler why he’s issuing the subpoenas one at a time, and what his timetable is for issuing the rest of them. For that matter, the order in which they’re subpoenaed is not necessarily the order in which they’ll be asked to appear. For instance, Nadler is asking McGahn to testify on May 21st, and we don’t know if he plans to have the other witnesses testify before or after him. Robert Mueller will also be brought in to testify somewhere in that process.
The point is that one witness after another will be teed up to deliver damning testimony against Donald Trump on live national television, as the nation tunes in with increasing interest. These people were all on the inside of Trump’s crimes, and they can testify first hand about what Trump did and tried to do. It’ll be a parade of impeachment witnesses, even if we’re not calling it that yet.
