House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has scheduled the second round of impeachment hearings for next week, and he’s invited President Donald Trump and the president’s attorneys to attend. The hearing, slated for Wednesday, December 4, will be titled, “The Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment.”
Chairman Nadler sent the president a two-page letter inviting him to not only attend, but testify, should he decide to.
In a statement Nadler explained that he is doing this because “the Committee’s impeachment inquiry rules allow for the President to attend the hearing and for his counsel to question the witness panel.”
Nadler did not stop there. In a bit of a taunt, the Judiciary Chairman explained that if the President refuses to show up, testify, or send his attorneys, it’s all on him.
“At base, the President has a choice to make: he can take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings, or he can stop complaining about the process,” Chairman Nadler said, as ABC News reports. “I hope that he chooses to participate in the inquiry, directly or through counsel, as other Presidents have done before him.”