Trump phone call to Jan. 6 witness prompts DOJ referral

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WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - Donald Trump called a witness who has yet to appear before a congressional committee investigating the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, Representative Liz Cheney said on Tuesday, raising concerns the former president might be illegally trying to influence witness testimony.

Speaking at the end of a three-hour hearing, Cheney, one of two members from Trump's Republican Party on the nine-member panel, announced that it had referred the matter to the U.S. Justice Department.

The witness did not pick up Trump's call but did tell their lawyer, said Cheney, vice chair of the House of Representatives Jan. 6 committee.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tried-call-jan-6-committee-witness-rep-cheney-2022-07-12/
 
So, isn't this a "hearing" and not a "trial" according to the likes of BidenPresident and the Left? Since the rules of evidence clearly don't apply what difference does it make if Trump called one of the people scheduled to testify? I avoided the word "witness" since it seems many of those testifying before this committee are producing opinion, hearsay, and speculation as their main sources of "evidence."
 
BidenPresident said:
WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - Donald Trump called a witness who has yet to appear before a congressional committee investigating the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, Representative Liz Cheney said on Tuesday, raising concerns the former president might be illegally trying to influence witness testimony.

Speaking at the end of a three-hour hearing, Cheney, one of two members from Trump's Republican Party on the nine-member panel, announced that it had referred the matter to the U.S. Justice Department.

The witness did not pick up Trump's call but did tell their lawyer, said Cheney, vice chair of the House of Representatives Jan. 6 committee.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tried-call-jan-6-committee-witness-rep-cheney-2022-07-12/
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It's not the first time Trump or one of his minions have engaged in witness tampering.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
So, isn't this a "hearing" and not a "trial" according to the likes of BidenPresident and the Left? Since the rules of evidence clearly don't apply what difference does it make if Trump called one of the people scheduled to testify? I avoided the word "witness" since it seems many of those testifying before this committee are producing opinion, hearsay, and speculation as their main sources of "evidence."
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Not a fucking lawyer, but it appears it's still witness tampering.
 
second question:
if the rules regarding hearsay do not apply because it isn't a trial, why do the trial rules about contacting witnesses apply?..........
 
apparently the statute people are suggesting is 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512
https://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/sites/ca3/files/2020%20Chap%206%20Obstruction%20revisions%20final.pdf

if so, no violation since it is directed at conduct BEFORE a witness has testified......

(a)
(1)Whoever kills or attempts to kill another person, with intent to—
(A)prevent the attendance or testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(B)prevent the production of a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(C)prevent the communication by any person to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation, parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).
(2)Whoever uses physical force or the threat of physical force against any person, or attempts to do so, with intent to—
(A)influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(B)cause or induce any person to—
(i)withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(ii)alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the integrity or availability of the object for use in an official proceeding;
(iii)evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(iv)be absent from an official proceeding to which that person has been summoned by legal process; or
(C)hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation, supervised release, parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).
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PostmodernProphet said:
apparently the statute people are suggesting is 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512

if so, no violation since it is directed at conduct BEFORE a witness has testified......
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WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - Donald Trump called a witness who has yet to appear before a congressional committee
 
the caller Id was intimidation :laugh:

it's like the Zimmerman and Rittenhouse shit all over again - morons on the left don't understand the law :laugh:
 
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