Say It Under Oath Trump You Filthy Criminal

Ex-DOJ Official Dares Trump To ‘Say It Under Oath’ With Impeachment Testimony

A former top official in the Justice Department is daring President Donald Trump to testify during the upcoming Senate impeachment proceedings. 

Neal Katyal, who was acting solicitor general under former President Barack Obama and author of the book “Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump,” said on Twitter that if Trump were innocent, he should be “clamoring” for a chance to clear his name. 

“The fact that you don’t speaks volumes,” he wrote.

Katyal was replying to a tweet in which Trump slammed the proceedings as a “no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, ‘no pressure’ Impeachment Hoax” and called for an “outright dismissal” instead of a trial. 

Katyal said that’s not the behavior of an innocent person and that if Trump really believed he was innocent, he should testify to clear his name under oath before the Senate and not via Twitter. Katyal added a hashtag he’s used before for Trump: #SayItUnderOath:  

Neal Katyal

✔@neal_katyal

So come and testify and explain why 18 witnesses, many from your own Administration, have testified in Congress and thrown the book at you. So far, the count is 18-0.

Your party controls the Senate. If you are innocent you should have nothing to fear. #SayItUnderOath https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216448547777908737 …

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, “no pressure” Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree!

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Neal Katyal

✔@neal_katyal

If you really believed this, you’d be trying to clear your name—clamoring for a real trial, with witnesses+docs, and you would testify under oath that you did “nothing wrong”

The fact that you don’t speaks volumes and far more than your protestations of innocence on,ahem,Twitter https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1216399515948867588 …

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Why should I have the stigma of Impeachment attached to my name when I did NOTHING wrong? Read the Transcripts! A totally partisan Hoax, never happened before. House Republicans voted 195-0, with three Dems voting with the Republicans. Very unfair to tens of millions of voters!

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On Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said dismissing impeachment ― as Trump and some Republicans are hoping for ― would amount to a cover-up.

“The senators who are thinking now about voting for witnesses or not, they will have to be accountable for not having a fair trial,” Pelosi warned on “This Week.” 

She is expected to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate this week. 

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