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By John Wojcik
WASHINGTON—A mind-blowing week in the 54-day-old impeachment inquiry ended Sunday with President Donald Trump’s bluff being called by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she invited him to testify under oath before Congress. The president said that even though he has “done nothing wrong” he was considering the offer so he could “get Congress back on focus.”
“If he has information that is exculpatory, that means ex, taking away, culpable, blame, then we look forward to seeing it,” Pelosi said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation program. Trump “could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants,” she said.
One of the many other bombshells exploding in the last several days was a charge Friday by Attorney General William Barr that the Democrats are sabotaging the executive branch of government. He accused “the left” of waging “war” against a “duly elected president.”
Barr made the accusation at a meeting of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization that has helped Trump stack the federal courts with right-wing extremists.
Barr put forward his extra-constitutional theory that the executive branch has almost unlimited, essentially authoritarian, power to rule with congressional oversight limited to only legislative matters. The speech by the attorney general elicited calls for his impeachment from many lawyers and legal scholars....
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