The White House has reportedly ordered two former aides to President Trump to defy their subpoenas to appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone reportedly said in a letter that the Justice Department recommended and Trump directed Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter to go against their subpoenas due to “constitutional immunity.” The letter was sent to the panel and obtained by The Associated Press.
The letter said the two were told not to go “because of the constitutional immunity that protects senior advisers to the president from compelled congressional testimony, and in order to protect the prerogatives of the Office of President,” The Associated Press reported.
Democrats are legally objecting to the ability to declare “absolute immunity” in a suit against former White House counsel Don McGahn.
The only expected witness for Tuesday’s hearing now is former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Cipollone instructed Lewandowski in another letter that he should not disclose private conversations with the president beyond what is public from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, The Associated Press reported.
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