Corey just about gave away the whole gambit. Had Chairman Nadler “thrown the book” at him, he would have gone to ground.
Lewandowski’s initial false sense of success kept him in that witness chair for that final series of questions that showed him to be a liar, that possibly caught him perjuring himself, that established a motive, rationale, timeline, and step-by-step record of Lewandowski’s version of Trump’s known attempt to directly obstruct AG Sessions’ investigation of Russian election interference. Under Congressional Oath.
It narrowed down that attempt to just four people: Trump, Lewandowski, Sessions’s aide, and Jeff Sessions.
The info they showed said that Sessions’ aide squashed the message and kept no notes.
Their entire defense rests on that detail holding up to scrutiny.
Judging on how the Democrats are proceeding, they already know it won’t. Based on how the Republicans are proceeding, they also know it won’t.
There was an FBI investigation into all things Russian during the 2016 election, and throughout much of that time, Lewandowski was certainly both under scrutiny and suspicion AND not working on the campaign: thus lacking cover from being surveilled. There’s probably a boatload of intel surrounding him from that time.
Corey wrongly believes he can pull an Ollie North here: deny and obfuscate, safe in the knowledge that all the relevant documents have been safely shredded, and everyone in the know has gotten the script. But this is a whole other bus load of reality.
Sessions may testify soon, and he may be much less certain about either his loyalties to tRump or his willingness to spend decades in prison. Corey was woefully not up to the task of seeing past his own marketing to see the damage he was causing. Where’s the “Fake News!” now, son?
And the message he was tasked to deliver… does it even matter if it never got to Sessions? Looks like there’s a clear story of criminal intent behind the President’s actions. NOBODY in his administration would perform this task, so he went to a civilian ally to threaten the AG? The only argument Corey even clung to was: “But I never passed him that note!”
Sure. Guess we’ll have an Impeachment party to see.