'This is what mob bosses do': White House blasted by legal experts for blocking Don McGahn testimony

The White House directed former counsel Don McGahn Monday to defy a congressional subpoena to testify before a House committee on Tuesday, citing a legal opinion drafted by the Justice Department that stated the former Trump official was immune from being compelled to testify.

— Laurence Tribe May 20, 2019McGahn was slated to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to provide testimony about key events detailed in the Mueller report that Democrats believe amount to obstruction of justice, some of which were based on McGahn’s cooperation with the special counsel.

White House counsel Don McGahn at a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on October 17, 2018. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images "What better way to ensure we don’t hear from McGahn this week than by subpoenaing a witness who’s categorically immune from testifying?" he tweeted. "Thankfully, McGahn’s testimony is in Vol 2 of the #MuellerReport, 99.9% of which is available to the chairman, should he ever choose to read it."

Mentally deranged psychopath called Donald Trump the Dictator Wannabe thinks he’s an American king or he’s in Communist Russian where their traitors president must be obeyed or death faced their Citizens.

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