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The developing Pat Cipollone situation is a fiasco in law. Also in name. Seriously, closed captioning just can’t get it right. This suits the situation, given that Cipollone had the foresight to know that if push came to shove, he’d be charged with “every crime imaginable.” I’ve heard of hindsight being 20/20, but you think a guy with clairvoyance would do a better job of staying out of trouble. Know what else is next up? The Jan. 6th panel’s got their next interviewee.
Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel to President Donald J. Trump who repeatedly fought Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has reached a deal to be interviewed by Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
The agreement was a breakthrough for the panel, which has pressed for weeks for Mr. Cipollone to cooperate — and issued a subpoena to him last week — believing he could provide crucial testimony.
Mr. Cipollone was a witness to pivotal moments in Mr. Trump’s push to invalidate the election results, including discussions about seizing voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud. He was also in the West Wing on Jan. 6, 2021, as Mr. Trump reacted to the violence at the Capitol, when his supporters attacked the building in his name.
I don’t know which God(s) or foreign actors are writing this last act of Americana™, but this season has had a lot of twists and turns. The Corona arc was a bit of a lull, but this throwback redux of the Religious Ethno-Fascist story line has been making up for lost time, what with the White Life “error” that makes various Bushisms read like Shakespear(e), the cartoonishly evil police department that only used cut-outs of Black people for target practice, and the like. To top it all off, some testimony that may have the potential to see how committed to democracy Trump’s legion is? This is more entertaining than Game of Thrones!
The last season at least. I’m still a little butthurt about how that panned out. Night King uber alles.
Jan. 6 Panel Secures Deal for Cipollone to Be Interviewed [NYT]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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