Corey Lewandoski hearing shows that any impeachment inquiry is going to require much tougher rules
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On Tuesday afternoon, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski sat down to answer questions before the House Judiciary Committee. In theory. This is the same hearing that former staffers Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter refused to attend after getting a nCorey Lewandoski hearing shows that any impeachment inquiry is going to require much tougher rules
On Tuesday afternoon, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski sat down to answer questions before the House Judiciary Committee. In theory. This is the same hearing that former staffers Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter refused to attend after getting a note from Trump telling them to ignore a congressional subpoena. The specific issue at hand was Trump asking Lewandowski to tell then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to halt the investigation into the Trump campaign, which was one of the instances of obstruction outlined by former special counsel Robert Mueller in his report. But the first two hours of the hearing showed that Lewandowski was going to give no cooperation, that Republicans on the committee were going to do everything possible to derail the proceedings, and that, for any impeachment inquiry to move forward, committee Chair Jerry Nadler is going to need to adopt a much tougher attitude toward uncooperative witnesses. When Lewandowski last appeared before the House Intelligence Committee, he provided it a succinct nonanswer in the form of, “I’m not answering your f***ing questions.” Amazingly, no one asked the sergeant-at-arms to pitch Lewandowski into the nearest oubliette until he was ready to apologize to the committee and obey the law. Even more unfortunately, Lewandowski opened the hearing on Tuesday with an only slightly more polite version of the same statement. And Nadler still continued with the pretense that there could be a hearing in which the only witness refused to answer, while admitting that he couldn’t claim executive privilege. Read more