This is a response to the Dec. 18th “Editorial: Suozzi’s reluctant response to impeachment vote” appeared in Great Neck News.
The editorial opines “he [Trump] should be required to produce the documents and let administration officials testify, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.”
During the Mueller Investigation, the seasoned defense attorney and the former Harvard professor, Alan Dershowitz, appeared on several TV interviews. He warned the president and his legal team about “perjury trap,” a very likely scenario which the prosecutors often use unfairly to get witnesses into legal trouble and exploit the witness subsequently to get a favorable testimony in exchange for a plea deal.
Dershowitz advised that Trump should not be interviewed by Mueller or his team because of the likely scenario of a perjury trap would be set by Mueller or his team. He described that when the prosecutors interview someone, they ask the witnesses questions that the answers are fall in a gray area. No matter how the witnesses answer the questions, the prosecutor can accuse the witnesses of lying and committing perjury.
Hence Trump cannot be blamed for not allowing his allies to testify, after seeing Adam Schiff, lying, reading from a fictitious transcript of Trump and the Ukrainian president, I am convinced that the fight is about political issues and not the fairness.
Leon Manucheri
Great Neck
