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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 08, 2019, 02:00:27 pm
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Trump defends blocking witness before 'kangaroo court'
By Morgan Chalfant - 10/08/19 09:40 AM EDT
President Trump on Tuesday defended his administration’s decision to block a key State Department witness from testifying before Congress as part of the House impeachment inquiry, claiming European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland would have been testifying before a “kangaroo court.â€
“I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public to see,†Trump wrote in a series of tweets Tuesday morning.
Trump tweeted shortly after news broke that the State Department had instructed Sondland not to appear before three House committees for closed-door testimony on Tuesday.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464801-trump-defends-blocking-witness-before-kangaroo-court