They’re not merely traitors: Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort just proved they’re sniveling cowards

| 9:02 pm EDT July 21, 2017
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Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort met with a hostile foreign government to try to rig a United States Presidential election, making them both traitors who belong in prison shackles. Their eagerness to attend a meeting with Kremlin proves that they’re both the lowest of treasonous pond scum. But today, Trump Jr. and Manafort also proved that they’re something else: whiny little sniveling cowards.

The Senate Intelligence Committee demanded that Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort show up and testify in public hearings this upcoming Wednesday, and they were given a deadline of today in order to confirm that they’ll be in attendance. The committee even signaled that U.S. Marshals would be sent out after them if they didn’t confirm by the end of today. In response, these two traitors offered to show up and testify, but only if they can do in private, without the television cameras watching.

As a practical matter, this left the Senate Intelligence Committee little choice but to go ahead and agree to the demand. If Trump Jr. and Manafort had refused to show up at all, it would have taken time to send out the Marshals to serve them with subpoenas, and then to wait for those subpoena deadlines to arrive. Although the Senate could have them arrested at that point, it would still only result in a court battle as to whether the subpoena was legally enforceable. This would have dragged on for weeks at the least, thus slowing the investigation further.

So the committee has decided to make a pragmatic compromise, and is allowing Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to go ahead and testify in private (source: link). This will help speed up the investigation. But it means that these two men aren’t merely traitors who sold out their country. They’re such sniveling cowards that they’re afraid to allow the American people to watch them as they make their case for they shouldn’t spend the rest of their lives rotting in prison.