And contrary to widespread belief, if you say under oath that you don’t remember something that you do, in fact, remember, that’s still perjury.
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"I do not recawl" is the longtime mantra of the MAGA nominees. From Jeff Seesions to Bovi. Liars and crooks all.
jun 26, 2025, 1:24 am • 10 1 • view
My memory is spotty on the exact phrase and who said it, but I believe Nixon’s people liked to say, “I fail to recollect.” H R Haldeman still went to jail for perjury.
jun 26, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
That was waaay back when there was a degree or two of integrity. Sad.
jun 26, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Marjorie Taylor Greene belongs in the hall of fame for that one. She wasn't even trying to fake "not recalling." She just spouted out "I don't recall" or "I don't remember" to every single question. Pathetic.
jun 26, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
There are memory care homes that are more appropriate than Congress or certainly the federal judiciary.
jun 26, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Right! If your recall/memory is 100% dysfunctional, it tells us a lot about your mental abilities…and you have no business being in the business of making laws for the rest of us. 😡
jun 26, 2025, 7:57 am • 2 0 • view
Since it didn’t happen long ago, it would seem that this man is unfit for such a position if he can’t remember something so many of the witnesses do in the same timeline.
jun 26, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
The very next question after Bove answered should have been do you recall not saying that
jun 26, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
If only that were actually true.
jun 26, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
How do you prove a memory?
jun 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
The Trump Administration does not care. They lie with impunity. They watched Donald break every law in existence AND become President. They obviously believe in trickle down Presidential Immunity.
jun 26, 2025, 1:31 am • 29 2 • view
Especially.. that he has full recall for what he said the day before. “I do not recall”, it’s a cheap answer, but highly disqualifying for someone seeking a lifetime appointment on the highest judicial offices in our country.
jun 26, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
I think it’s time that you actually swear them in before testifying ILO of having to prove they lied after the fact. This way they can’t say I do not recall. They would have to plead the fifth amendment. Who’s knows they might just break Trumps record.
jun 26, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
How can you prove it, though?
jun 26, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Serious question: in all of your experience, have you ever seen a person convicted of perjury for lying that he or she did not remember something?
jun 26, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
But how do you prove that someone didn’t forget?
jun 26, 2025, 10:06 am • 3 0 • view
But that would mean Trump’s Cabinet is screwed when the DC Trials begin when this hell is over…
jun 26, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
I believe there are not many people that think he did not say it and trust he does not remember. It's all too obvious. He's toast.
jun 26, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
Does he have a drinking problem?
jun 26, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
A reason for impeachment and arrest in a honest administration.
jun 26, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Nosferatu lives
jun 26, 2025, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view
Hopefully someone has a recording
jun 26, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
Sounded a lot like Iran Contra hearings in the 1980s.
jun 26, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
So no backsies on the "I think I don't remember" defense?
jun 26, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
But if you don’t remember your perjury it’s all good, right?
jun 26, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Perjury is second nature to these people
jun 26, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
He may not completely recall. He may think it's possible he said it, so can't say no, but doesn't directly remember, so cant say yes. Schiff emphasizes the "fuck you", but the tone may not been as aggressive, and not nessesarily memorable. Don't ask me what I said at a meeting last week.
jun 26, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
Indeed, but the problem in this country now seems to be that even after clearly, obviously breaking the law, there is no consequence. At any level.
jun 26, 2025, 5:53 am • 5 0 • view
“if you say under oath that you don’t remember something that you do, in fact, remember, that’s still perjury.”… I think Bondi today saying she didn’t know that ICE agents were masked but then later made a statement that she knew they were was evidence of perjury too. bsky.app/profile/atru...
jun 26, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 1 • view
When you give a trump a cookie..
jun 26, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
It seems memory loss is a common affliction among rabid republicans. “Under questioning, Marjorie Taylor Greene has to be shown the language of the oath she took, because she can’t recall if she said she took on the obligations of office freely & without any purpose of evasion.” -Joyce Alene
jun 26, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 1 • view
And if a person doesn't "recall" something of great importance, then they are not suitable for the job.
jun 26, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Who might be in charge of prosecuting a perjury charge referred to them by Congress? Pam Bondi? Good luck
jun 26, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
Guess there's no choice but to accept the word of a person who does remember.
jun 26, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but I imagine its hard to prove that someone does remember something.
jun 26, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Isn't the reason lawyers tell people to not remember things because you can't technically prove whether they did or didn't remember it in the moment?
jun 26, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Bove is creepier than Miller.
jun 26, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Damn hard to prove, though. We all believe he really said it but possesses insufficient balls to own it.
jun 26, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, but the worst part about the whole thing is he’s just lying his ass off like the rest of tacos, administration, and nobody is going to do anything about it.
jun 26, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 0 • view
How does one prove that?
jun 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
And to put it even more simply, if you genuinely did not remember, you would say you didn't say it. If you don't remember saying something you would say you didn't say it...
jun 26, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/adam...
jun 26, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
Try proving that in court.
jun 26, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
I dont think the word holds any meaning anymore. It's not a threat. Not to these people.
jun 26, 2025, 1:36 am • 3 0 • view
Yes but it's unprovable. So my proposal is we pass a lie detector test for anybody testifying in Congress after they have testified to see if they lie and if they have send them straight to jail. Won't that be a great law??
jun 26, 2025, 1:18 am • 7 0 • view
Its not unprovable, but I would think it would be pretty hard to prove. Lie detector tests are not reliable.
jun 26, 2025, 1:22 am • 5 0 • view
Psychopaths and sociopaths tend to ace lie detector tests. They don't get nervous when lying. It's their way of life.
jun 26, 2025, 1:38 am • 5 0 • view
Okay but it would be better than we have now where all of the administration secretaries are lying through their teeth every time they come into Congress. Somehow we got to figure out a way to keep this from happening. And it goes for any administration!!
jun 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Great TV viewing, too. Very bigly ratings!
jun 26, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
Yes it is perjury. But so did Pam Bondi and Pete. They’re all just a bunch of damn liars. They are lying for their lives because if they don’t they’ll be locked up for treason.
jun 26, 2025, 2:10 am • 0 0 • view
Refusal to admit what is documented and known is tantamount to a lie. Lies are perjury.
jun 26, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
just part of the job for these clowns
jun 26, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
In English, what would a court require as evidence that someone remembered something when they stated under oath that they 'didn't recall'? Written evidence like emails that mention the incident after the fact?
jun 26, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t matter what it’s called if there are no consequences for it.
jun 26, 2025, 1:38 pm • 10 0 • view
Who could tell, tho? 🧐😬
jun 26, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
Oh Lordy. Maybe there’s a tape!
jun 26, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
When is the last time any of these motherfuckers got charged with perjury? Exactly.
jun 26, 2025, 1:32 am • 0 0 • view
Another horrible pic by Trump
jun 26, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Here is why he may be lying: Kavanaugh Coney Barrett Kennedy Jr Noem Bondi Hegseth All these people lied or were evasive under oath to the Senate as to what they would or would not do, despite all signs and actions showing who they were. They were still confirmed. Senate suckers.
jun 26, 2025, 1:46 am • 4 0 • view
They’re not suckers, the Republicans just don’t care.
jun 26, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
But whose going to prosecute him?
jun 26, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
Who's dammit!
jun 26, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
I would say lock him up, but we already know that there will be no consequences so, whatever…🤷🏻♀️
jun 26, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
This is the man who trump initially assigned to Cassidy Hutchinson. He told her to lie under oath saying she didn't know facts that she in fact did know. The Republicans gave him an award. www.rnla.org/rnla_honors_...
jun 26, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, yea.. those laws n rules things don’t apply to this gang
jun 26, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
Bove:
jun 26, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
Prove it.
jun 26, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
Ask Ollie North how effective that was for him.
jun 26, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
Isn't it supremely difficult to prove perjury when it comes to claims of memory? That's why they do it?
jun 26, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
Don't recall the legacy of Jeff Sessions that continues to live on. That and Weirdo Miller.
jun 26, 2025, 2:08 am • 1 0 • view
Aah, but he didn’t TELL them to say it, he told them they OUGHT to say it. Just the kind of weaseling that qualifies him for our higher courts now.
jun 26, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Agree.
jun 26, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Senators do NOT confirm Bove Remember your horrible confirmation of Pam Bondi RFK Jr Pete drunk Hegseth @schiff.senate.gov @gallego.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov
jun 26, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
exactly x.com/RichardClip/...
jun 26, 2025, 6:37 am • 0 0 • view
The “I don’t recall” line is used frequently (remember sh*t hole countries comment). Their lawyers construct a definition of “recall” that is different from “remember.” My guess: They, of course, remember a remark but choose not to actively “recall” it.
jun 26, 2025, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
But when you deny, you know the person you’re saying it for (Trump 2.0) will remember that and beep you in his inner circle.
jun 26, 2025, 1:28 am • 0 0 • view
www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do... Read the DoJ whistleblower letter for yourself. Feel free to share.
jun 26, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Fdt terrorists
jun 26, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
So it's obviously disqualifying having lied under oath to Congress.
jun 26, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
And if you maintain you don’t remember, that is evidence of a disqualifying cognitive impairment
jun 26, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
So what do we do about their obvious lies and obfuscation as our democracy implodes? There is no enforcement of the law (let alone “norms”), there are no consequences and zero contingencies for what’s happening with these people who are running rampant.
jun 26, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
Not a chance he doesn’t remember that
jun 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
It worked nicely for Reagan.
jun 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
the Trump crime family perjures itself every day. nothing is done. what does the law matter if we won't enforce it? legal theater, nothing more. we aren't a nation of law anymore. we're run by a transnational crime family. we're an autocracy.
jun 26, 2025, 1:45 am • 10 2 • view
Oligarchy actually. But the effective difference is zero.
jun 26, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
you're probably right.
jun 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Yes but who would be the ones who would charge him? Oh yeah. Trump’s DOJ. Likelihood of that? Not a chance they’d do that since he is lying for Trump.
jun 26, 2025, 1:37 am • 4 0 • view
If he has such a feeble memory, perhaps he should not be confirmed to a lifetime appointment as a judge
jun 26, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view
The hearings are a waste of time and dollars unless I suppose, for the record, these people will ultimately be brought up on charges.
jun 26, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
MTG got away with it.
jun 26, 2025, 2:22 am • 2 0 • view
TRUMP does not remember if he has to follow the Constitution. New Republican defense is willful ignorance!
jun 26, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
The burden of proof is pretty steep. It would be hard to prove that really remember what I tell you I don’t.
jun 26, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
And that matters why? Like we have ever gone after anybody for lying to congress - well at least the justices, reps or senators, presidents, etc.
jun 26, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
as was pointed out during questioning, the likely reason is he makes such statements regularly
jun 26, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
THIS. I tell everyone I am deposing that they can always say "I don't know" or "I don't remember" if it's true--it's just as useful to know what a deponent doesn't know as what they do know. But if you know, you are required to answer truthfully. If you don't, it's perjury.
jun 26, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Schiff should’ve concluded: “regrettably, we therefore must let the historical show Emile Bove either uses profanity so much that cannot remember recently saying ‘fuck the court’ or he’s lying to the United States of America.
jun 26, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
But how do you prove that he remembered it today? Even if he comes and says a week from now “oh yeah, I remember that“, that doesn’t mean he remembered it today. Not defending that rotting carcass of a person. Just seems hard to prove, however.
jun 26, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
And in situations such as this, when an important statement of personal intent is at issue, most juries also reasonably find that “I don’t remember” means “probably, but i cant say for sure that I said exactly that at that precise moment, because i dont want to. “
jun 26, 2025, 1:48 am • 1 0 • view
I hope those people come forward to testify
jun 26, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
Republicans are gonna lie cheat & steal. It’s what they do,It’s all they do. They only people that don’t know this, or pretend not to know, is other republicans. the uneducated, this was Trumps own words. His people are the uneducated, his favorite people. The ones even someone dumb as him can con!
jun 26, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
Does it matter? We all know the Republicans are going to approve him anyway. He could be a literal murderer and they’d still be like ‘well, Trump wants him so 🤷♂️’.
jun 26, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Lordy, I hope there are tapes!
jun 26, 2025, 8:22 am • 0 0 • view
What? ..is their some law or Senate decorum that says you can't bring in someone to rebut what this guy is saying?.. or do we all just mumble that we know he said it and then just move on..
jun 26, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
Please, it can be whatever you want if there are never any consequences.
jun 26, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
prove it
jun 26, 2025, 10:24 am • 0 0 • view
When was the last time a lying liar who lied in a Congressional hearing was convicted for perjury? Haldeman and Mitchell of Watergate infamy in 1975. All the other cases since then were dismissed or defendant acquitted.
jun 26, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
Why do they let these assholes lie and do nothing about it?
jun 26, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
Emil Bove lied under oath. Evil.
jun 26, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
It’s proving that he remembers that’s the difficult bit. We know he does. He knows we know he does. But he’s confident we can’t prove it. 🤷🏼♀️
jun 26, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
Is actions show his words.
jun 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you… HE IS STILL LYING…
jun 26, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Blanche supported Bove when he knew that Bove would likely be asked about this before Congress. Instead of mapping out beforehand how things would go, Blanche spouted off & then was left hung out to dry when Bove had to say that he didn't remember. When they aren't lying, they are quite stupid.
jun 26, 2025, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
And how is it proved?
jun 26, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
How do these people imagine, in their optimal imagining of the outcome of all of this, that they won’t eventually face accountability for their criminality? He dies, they’re fucked.
jun 26, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
definitely
jun 26, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
Not for Republicans! just saying
jun 26, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
I find these meetings really lack any purpose. The Republicans all just lie with impunity and no one is there to enforce perjury charges. It's just a performance which has zero consequence.
jun 26, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
When you listen to him talk, he is frightening— like Stephen Miller.
jun 26, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly! Both of them are like The Walking Dead.
jun 26, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, but how do you prove that someone remembered something they say they don’t remember.
jun 26, 2025, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
I imagine you prove it, if they said something to someone maybe a few days earlier. It makes it hard to believe that a person would forget something that recent.
jun 26, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
And then they can go to all of the appearances made by his team backing it up because every filing was an fu
jun 26, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
You can’t expect a potential federal judge to know them fancy legal words like “perjury”
jun 26, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
This is not going to end until one of these Trump flunkies gets held in contempt and sees themselves in a holding cell.
jun 26, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
Welcome aboard the Reagan dementia "I don't recall" railroad.
jun 26, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Obvs.
jun 26, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
Perjury lost all its teeth when Jeff Sessions, caught lying at his hearing, was allowed to write a letter CHANGING WHAT HE SAID.
jun 26, 2025, 2:45 am • 2 1 • view
I’ve testified many times and have often pondered the phrase “…the whole truth…”.
jun 26, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
Congress is, in trump’s own lingo, a shithole where the respect and obedience to laws are a thing of the past.
jun 26, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
The farther in the past it is the harder it is to know if you really remember it. You might remember generally but the answer to whether you remember something specific might very well be no even if you think it likely happened.
jun 26, 2025, 1:25 am • 1 0 • view
I would imagine that's awfully difficult to prove though.(??)
jun 26, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Every time one of these assholes says they don’t recall you know they fucking do.
jun 26, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
The question is: how could that EVER be proven?? 😟 This has become a widely abused tactic (how many times has Trump said it in his depositions? 🤨)…but can anything be done to prevent it?
jun 26, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
Yup . He was lying.
jun 26, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
True. But when has anyone who’s lied under oath to Congress ever been prosecuted?
jun 26, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
But, who, if anyone, will enforce this?
jun 26, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
he completely fucked up when he insisted he didn't recall doing it...then moments later said he "did. not." do it.
jun 26, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
It doesn’t matter anymore what anyone believes. Thune is deaf and/or doesn’t care, would kiss anyone’s a$$ to be “leader”. Johnson is a blushing sycophantic clown. They aren’t heroes they’re cowards with the power to save the country but won’t. These dishonorable miscreants all betrayed their oaths.
jun 26, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
But if right now I say I don’t recall reading the above post by George, how can you prove me wrong? People have memory problems, don’t they? (I despise Bove, but I’m just wondering about the “don’t recall” strategy.)
jun 26, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
How many of Trump's cabinet secretaries lied under oath during their confirmation hearings?
jun 26, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
And the not so Supreme Court who suddenly couldn’t remember what they said under oath before confirmation
jun 26, 2025, 1:41 am • 1 0 • view
Doubt there’s much of a record of perjury convictions based on a showing the witness actually recalled what they said they didn’t. Besides, nominees lie to senators all the time without consequence.
jun 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
so bring perjury charges! today! otherwise this is a distraction. these people will do what they want because nobody will stop them
jun 26, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
The GOP method of taking the fifth without actually taking the fifth, in the hope that they won't get caught lying to the judge.
jun 26, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
Anyone have it on tape? That would be nice?
jun 26, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
Can’t they block this POS?
jun 26, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
And if Republicans weren't all cowed dumbshits, it might matter.
jun 26, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
ANY RATIONAL PERSON would CERTAINLY RECALL TELLING SOMEONE TO F*** someone…We REMEMBER THAT! It is offensive to look at someone (with cameras rolling and being broadcast to the American people) and FLAT-OUT LIE to us or think we are stupid! He’s WRONG! We remember! Do they EVER get tired of LYING?
jun 26, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
WHEN wil these liars start being prosecuted for perjury?
jun 26, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
Let's say, just for fun, he can't recall significant and recent legal positions he's taken-- It's a disqualifier for a judge position!
jun 26, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
American lawyers have been officially outed....just money grubbing liars.
jun 26, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be nice if a Dem legal scholar would have added something to the effect of your comment to the record as a point of …sunshine. Markers of this sort might lessen media mischief or spawn useful discussion on the point at hand.
jun 26, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
It's just really really difficult to prove that you actually did remember it, i.e. that you were lying.
jun 26, 2025, 1:16 am • 2 0 • view