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The People of Puerto Rico might be “angry” but they are also stupid, in this particular instance.
Cornered by civilization, there are already few jíbaros; but in their golden age they were even more successful than the Incas in rejecting the conquerors. They killed thousands of Europeans because they raised their taxes, which shows that even the wildest has something to teach us.
Today, if we talk about head reducers, they may even believe that we are referring to certain soap operas or some populist discourse; but for them the brain drain was not a strategy of terror, as was the massive impalement with which Count Dracula managed to scare the Ottomans. It was mystical and the dead man was a lifelong companion of his now respectful opponent. How did a Galician to govern such a wayward people? Well, that is the subject of the research that the collaborator brings us today.
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Jibaros:
Go home and take all these pennies that Trump threw to you and your leaders, as the payment for these “demonstrations”!
Disperse these demonstrations: civilly, professionally, and with the minimal use of force. Maintain the Law and Order but respect the people.
Governor Rossello will not resign, and he absolutely should not!
Investigate, who is behind these demonstrations and this clearly pre-organized, pre-orchestrated “protests”.
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.”
Government Rossello’s emotional talk is the political speech, and it should be treated as such.
Any limitations on the political speech are inappropriate.
Jibaros, do your home work!
Trump wants blood and violence, to justify the demands for the resignation of the Governor Rossello, who became his political opponent.
Do not play into Trump’s hands!
Michael Novakhov
6:46 AM 7/23/2019
Go home and take all these pennies that Trump threw to you and your leaders, as the payment for these “demonstrations”!
Disperse these demonstrations: civilly, professionally, and with the minimal use of force. Maintain the Law and Order but respect the people.
Governor Rossello will not resign, and he absolutely should not!
Investigate, who is behind these demonstrations and this clearly pre-organized, pre-orchestrated “protests”.
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.”
Government Rossello’s emotional talk is the political speech, and it should be treated as such.
Any limitations on the political speech are inappropriate.
Jibaros, do your home work!
Trump wants blood and violence, to justify the demands for the resignation of the Governor Rossello, who became his political opponent.
Do not play into Trump’s hands!
Michael Novakhov
6:46 AM 7/23/2019
P.S. The New York Times practices Censorship!!!
I placed a similar comment to their editorial, before publishing this post, and they did not even acknowledge it! I think they simply ban certain commentators whom they find to be “undesirable”, not enough politically and journalistically correct. If it so indeed, it would be horrible, but it is quite possible, especially in our days.
And this is the second or third time it is happening.
Fuck the Bankrupt New York Times!!!
Fuck The New York Times, the tool of the New Abwehr!
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Fuck The New York Times!
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Cornered by civilization, there are already few jíbaros; but in their golden age they were even more successful than the Incas in rejecting the conquerors. They killed thousands of Europeans because they raised their taxes, which shows that even the wildest has something to teach us.
Today, if we talk about head reducers, they may even believe that we are referring to certain soap operas or some populist discourse; but for them the brain drain was not a strategy of terror, as was the massive impalement with which Count Dracula managed to scare the Ottomans. It was mystical and the dead man was a lifelong companion of his now respectful opponent. How did a Galician to govern such a wayward people? Well, that is the subject of the research that the collaborator brings us today.
By Alberto Moroy
What they are seeing on the cover is a Shuar warrior (Jibaro) from Ecuador with two reduced human heads. For twelve years, the Galician Alfonso Graña, a native of the Oriuan parish of Amiuda (Galicia), born in 1878, ruled as chief of chiefs a territory of the Amazonian Upper Marañón, as large as half of Spain and populated by jíbaros Indians of the aguaruna tribes and huambisa, head reducers. He died in Peru in 1934.
From the author
Many years ago, in Montevideo a classmate carried one of these heads, I still remember her. It impressed! Surely in museums and private collections in Montevideo there must be enough, however few saw them and many do not know who the jibaros are, because there are no stories to remember them. I don't know how legal it is to keep these trophies in particular; I imagine that it is not without problems. Today they say those who know that the original 'tzansas' can reach $ 15,000 in the international market. And there must be many others falsified.
The history of the Galician king
Two white men tour the Amazon rainforest. They face a group of indigenous people. One of them dies in the fight; the other the Indians forgive his life. He is tall and handsome and the daughter of the chief of the tribe has fallen in love with him. The target stays to live among the savages and, when the apu (boss) dies, it happens to him in office. Years later he returns to civilization become the King of the Jíbaros. And until his death, twelve years later, he lives on horseback between both worlds. This, which could be the synopsis of an adventure film, is the true story of a Galician who, like so many others, emigrated to America in 1899, fleeing hunger.
Graña, the Galician king
Alfonzo Graña and his son / Other Graña (left)
Alfonso Graña, the Galician King
The jibaros
The Shuar (Jibaros) believe that the soul of people resides in the head. In her the power is concentrated and to her come and go the dreams that reveal the way forward.
Small heads / Location in Ecuador
More reduced heads
Shuart Tawasap Community- Amazonia Ecuador
Old chronicles
The sinister reputation of the jíbaros does not begin with their encounter with the whites, since even the Incas feared them. By 1450, the Tupac Yupanqui army attacked a province located on the current border between Peru and Ecuador, north of the Marañón River. At the time of the Conquest, it was the most numerous Amazonian people: 80,000 people living between Ecuador and Peru. They were known as fearsome in war and distinguished their veneration for women and the elderly.
In 1599 the Spanish chronicles report that during that year about 20,000 Jíbaros, commanded by Kirrúba rebelled and killed thousands of whites because the Governor of Macas, the Spanish colonial representative of the area, imposed an enormous tribute to the natives. First they captured the Governor, poured molten gold into his throat "until the guts exploded inside his body" and then totally destroyed the town. A few nights later and about twenty-five leagues away they destroyed Seville de Oro and Valladolid, as well as Canelos, Zamora and other colonial towns. In those incursions many white women were taken, so that even today we can distinguish features of white mixture on the faces of some Jíbaros.
Location of Macas Google Earth 2 ° 18′00 ″ S 78 ° 07′00 ″ w
Reduction / Heads of his enemies hanging around his neck
The heads of the bosses
Head reductions will be made with the greatest solemnity. After a confrontation between two Shuar tribes, the winning chief approached the corpse of the defeated chief and cut off his head. It was the signal that the dispute was settled. Next, the opposing tribes began a new life together, without reprisals, without victors, or defeated. Meanwhile, they left the two bosses alone, so that one would conjure up all the other's strength through a ceremony called "tzantza."
The reduction
The first task was to make an incision in the neck. For this wound the contents were emptied (skull, brain and eyes) and the skin was torn. Next, he boiled boiling water with juice from a vine and other herbs from the Amazon. The head was sunk for 15 minutes, not one more, not one less. Technique that prevented hair from falling. Afterwards, you just had to wait patiently for it to dry. This tanned skin was shaped by introducing a stone inside. The fire made the last reduction.
Nowadays
At present, 20,000 shuar have survived. Specifically, those who live in Ecuador are receiving severe pressure from the mining and oil industry, which is wildly damaging their ancestral right to use forests.
The Shuar and their way of life
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Jibaros: Go home and take all these pennies that Trump threw to you and your leaders!
The People of Puerto Rico might be "angry" but they are also stupid, in this particular instance.
Jibaros:
Go home and take all these pennies that Trump threw to you and your leaders, as the payment for these "demonstrations"!
Disperse these demonstrations: civilly, professionally, and with the minimal use of force. Maintain the Law and Order but respect the people.
Governor Rossello will not resign, and he absolutely should not!
Investigate, who is behind these demonstrations and this clearly pre-organized, pre-orchestrated "protests".
"Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me."
Government Rossello's emotional talk is the political speech, and it should be treated as such.
Any limitations on the political speech are inappropriate.
Jibaros, do your home work!
Michael Novakhov
6:46 AM 7/23/2019
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michael barbaro
From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today: Hundreds of leaked text messages revealed the governor of Puerto Rico mocking his own citizens. For Puerto Ricans, it was the last straw. It’s Friday, July 19.
patricia mazzei
Hello, Michael Barbaro.
michael barbaro
Hello, hello. How are you?
patricia mazzei
I’ve been better. How are you?
michael barbaro
I’m O.K. Why have you been better? What’s the matter?
patricia mazzei
Well, I’m just tired. It’s been really long nights. But that’s O.K.
michael barbaro
You’ve been staying up late covering the protests.
patricia mazzei
Yes, sir. There’s a meme in Puerto Rico of people saying, O.K., I’m going to bed, and a friend telling them, but what if the governor resigns? And the person lying in bed with their eyes wide open. They don’t want to miss that moment, and so —
michael barbaro
Right, right, right. The one moment you doze off is the moment it all happens.
patricia mazzei
That’s what we live in fear of.
michael barbaro
I reached Pati Mazzei, a national correspondent for The Times, in San Juan. Pati, for most listeners, I suspect the story of Puerto Rico hits the pause button in October of 2017. Hurricane Maria hits. The island is thrown into darkness and into chaos. And President Trump’s response is seen by many as insensitive and insufficient.
patricia mazzei
Yes. But the story came back in April of this year when members of Congress were considering a disaster aid bill.
archived recording
Nature’s forces have battered the United States in the past half year — storm winds, floodwaters, and deadly wildfire. To those natural disasters, now add a man-made one.
patricia mazzei
Not just for Puerto Rico, but for a bunch of states on the mainland that had suffered various natural disasters.
archived recording
A dispute between President Trump and Democrats over hurricane relief for Puerto Rico is threatening disaster relief funding for California’s wildfire victims.
patricia mazzei
The president wanted to hold up the bill just because he did not want to send money to Puerto Rico. So these were billions of dollars that would have gone to Florida, Texas, states in the Midwest that were suddenly at this impasse because the president said, I’m not sending more to Puerto Rico.
archived recording
President Trump accused Puerto Rico’s leaders of misspending money they had already received.
patricia mazzei
He said the government can’t do anything right, that the place is a mess, and nothing works there.
archived recording
Here’s part of the tweet: The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, and only take from the U.S.A.
patricia mazzei
And therefore, he did not trust Puerto Rican leaders to manage new funds well.
archived recording
The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico, the tweet says, is President Donald J. Trump.
michael barbaro
And what’s the response in Puerto Rico this time?
patricia mazzei
So Puerto Ricans still don’t like being called out by the president. They find that offensive. But that doesn’t mean that some of them, at least, don’t agree with some of the substance of his criticism, which is that the leaders on the island haven’t always been very good fiscal stewards of public funds. Puerto Rico has suffered financial troubles for years and has had corruption scandals for decades. And so people on the island were wary that once again, some of this might come up with billions of dollars in recovery aid flowing into the island.
michael barbaro
So Puerto Ricans don’t entirely disagree with the president that perhaps the island can’t be trusted with the money.
patricia mazzei
No. And that’s what made some of their response nuanced. You can be mad that the president — the only time he talks about you is to say bad things and still think he’s got a point in that our leaders haven’t always done well by us. In fact, Puerto Rico is effectively bankrupt. They’re in a 12-year recession, and they have a debt crisis. Their leaders borrowed until they couldn’t anymore, and the island ran out of money.
michael barbaro
So Pati, what happens next?
archived recording
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
patricia mazzei
So three weeks ago, Puerto Rico’s Treasury secretary says in an explosive radio interview that he has gone to federal authorities to report this institutional mafia, he calls it, within the government that is trying to extort him. In a matter of hours, the governor asks the Treasury secretary for his resignation, saying he can’t trust him because the secretary didn’t go to the governor to tell him what he had found. He went straight to the feds.
archived recording
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
michael barbaro
He’s firing the Treasury secretary for reporting an alleged extortion attempt to the United States government.
patricia mazzei
As you can imagine, that doesn’t sit well with some of the governor’s critics, and also with some of the secretary’s family members.
archived recording
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
patricia mazzei
His son takes to social media to criticize the governor, and then the son gets investigated by police. And this starts turning into a real drama.
archived recording
Six people, including two former Puerto Rican officials, were arrested for allegedly diverting millions in federal funds to unqualified, politically connected contractors yesterday.
patricia mazzei
In the middle of all this, last week, the U.S. attorney’s office in Puerto Rico announces six high-profile arrests, including of the former education secretary and of the former executive director of the island’s health insurance administration agency.
archived recording 1
The alleged scam involves $15.5 million in federal funding allocated since 2017.
archived recording 2
The feds say they were defrauding the federal government.
archived recording 3
Here’s what is really so disappointing. Julia Keleher, she was impressive. She was driven. She seemed like someone who could do some good things. It’s such a slap in the face for an island that needs so much to see her go down if this is true.
archived recording 4
And what I was thinking, too, is that Puerto Rico, P.R., does not need any bad P.R.
patricia mazzei
And to top it all off, the governor is on vacation in Europe. He calls off his vacation, leaves his wife and children on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, and flies back to get back to the island as quickly as possible. And then while he’s flying back, there’s a new wrinkle. Someone leaks bits and pieces of a group chat on the messaging app Telegram between the governor and 11 of his closest aides. And in this leak are offensive and profane comments that they make about some of their political opponents. There is a snapshot that the governor posts of a tweet by the former speaker of the New York City Council, Melissa Mark-Viverito, who is originally from Puerto Rico, where she’s criticizing Tom Perez, the president of the Democratic National Committee. And the governor’s response is [SPEAKING SPANISH], which, in English, means, our people need to go out and defend Tom and go after this whore.
archived recording (ricardo rosselló)
So, well, first of all, good afternoon. Thank you all for being here.
patricia mazzei
So by the time the governor lands in San Juan —
archived recording (ricardo rosselló)
Briefly, I wanted to talk to the press.
patricia mazzei
The entire press corps has assembled and is ready to pounce.
archived recording
What strategy are you using to continue the operations of government and the economy, for the economy to continue?
archived recording (ricardo rosselló)
So good question.
archived recording
There’s been some calls for your resignation from your political position. Do you have a decision or an answer to that call?
archived recording (ricardo rosselló)
So I’m moving forward with all of my elected positions.
archived recording
You were the leader of this chat room that conspired to discredit people you didn’t like. Why would you do that?
archived recording (ricardo rosselló)
Well, again, I’ve already mentioned I am — I am not proud of what I did. Those were merely comments, but they were hurtful comments. It’s why I apologize for what I’ve done.
michael barbaro
And how does that explanation go over?
patricia mazzei
Not particularly well. The people who were insulted in the chat say that this is unacceptable behavior by their leaders. And Puerto Ricans in general, who have been seeing these bits and pieces come out, are sort of just waiting for the next one to drop. And then it’s not that there’s another bit that drops.
archived recording
Governor Ricardo Rosselló has been under fire since nearly 900 pages of a private group chat were leaked and published this weekend by the Center for —
patricia mazzei
It’s 889 pages published on Saturday morning by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Reporting detailing two months of this chat in full.
archived recording
The leaked chat room conversations between the governor and 11 others are laced with profane, homophobic and sexist comments.
michael barbaro
And what is in this second batch of messages?
patricia mazzei
The second batch of messages has more insults where not only are they targeting critics of the governor and his administration, but also their allies — for example, a young man who is overweight who met with the governor. And there’s a picture in the chat of the two shaking hands and the governor making a crack about [SPEAKING SPANISH]. No, I’m not thinner. It’s an optical illusion. And then saying, [SPEAKING SPANISH]. He generates his own gravity field. I mean, things that are just really —
patricia mazzei
Inappropriate. Yes. But in addition to that, there is the bigger picture, which is that there are people in this chat who are no longer members of the government, including a lobbyist who has his own business interests. And he is getting fed inside information from his buddies with the governor being aware of it.
michael barbaro
So weeks after President Trump calls the government of Puerto Rico corrupt, there are all these indictments that basically say he’s right. And then there are these leaks that cast the Puerto Rican government as completely insensitive to everyday Puerto Ricans.
patricia mazzei
Yeah. If you thought, cynically, that these people were more concerned about how they look than what they do, if you thought that maybe they didn’t really respect people, even if they pretended outwardly that they did, and if you were concerned that there was — if not real corruption, then the perception of corruption, that it could be happening, that people were really cozy with their friends, with lobbyists and business leaders in their inner circle, then what the chat did was confirm your worst fears and prove that you were right. And so people started taking to the streets spontaneously. And they’re very fed up. And so that’s when I get on a plane and come, because we’re starting to wonder if this is going to force the governor to resign. Is this going to be a moment that changes things?
michael barbaro
We’ll be right back.
michael barbaro
So Pati, walk me through the last few days in San Juan.
patricia mazzei
The streets of Old San Juan are narrow and colonial. They’re cobblestone streets lined with shops that are painted in colorful red and pink and green and purple. And they have been deserted during the day and packed at night — not because people are going to bars or there’s a bunch of tourists here, but because the protesters come down.
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patricia mazzei
They come with flags in hand, and they’re wearing black and white T-shirts with political messages. And they are just standing for hours, sometimes starting in the middle of the day under the scorching sun, in front — or as close as they can get in front — to the governor’s mansion, La Fortaleza, which means the fortress. And —
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[CHANTING]
patricia mazzei
— they start chanting. And this is the Caribbean, so the percussion is great.
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[CHANTING]
patricia mazzei
They find these great rhymes.
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[CHANTING]
patricia mazzei
With the governor’s nickname, Ricky. And so they just keep saying, ¡Ricky, renuncia!” Resign, resign.
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[CHANTING]
patricia mazzei
People were not just mad about these chats. Some of the signs were about that. Some of the chants were about that. But one of the things that was really stunning was the number of protest signs that just listed the number of people who have been estimated could have died under Hurricane Maria. So some signs just said 4,645, the upper-end estimate. These people have suffered not only through hurricanes and a power outage that lasted a year, but also with major economic hardships, and layoffs, and school closures, and people leaving the island en masse to move to the mainland. And it all just was pent up, and it exploded all at once.
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
patricia mazzei
And then the celebrities joined the people.
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
patricia mazzei
And on Wednesday night, there is Ricky Martin and the rapper Residente, and the trap musician Bad Bunny, and the singer iLe.
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[SINGING]
patricia mazzei
And they’re standing on the platform of this truck as the sun is setting, and they’re in front of the ocean, the Capitol behind them. And iLe looks out over this crowd between the Capitol and the palm trees and the ocean, and she says, it was about damn time to wake up.
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michael barbaro
So it’s clear that a lot of this frustration is landing at the doorstep of the governor. But my sense is that because of the complicated relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States, that the governor is not all that powerful, right?
patricia mazzei
It’s interesting that you mentioned that, Michael, because one of the other chants that we heard was ¡Ricky, renuncia, y llévate a la junta!
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patricia mazzei
Ricky, resign, and take the board with you. And that refers to this federal oversight board that Congress created to handle Puerto Rico’s finances after it essentially went bankrupt. And that is another big target of these protests, because the board’s role is to tell Puerto Rico what it cannot spend. And that involves layoffs, and school closures, and university tuition hikes, and possibly targeting public pensions. And so the board, which is unelected and comes from Washington, has made Puerto Ricans feel powerless. To a lot of them, it’s just another example of how they have been colonized, first by Spain and then by the United States. And it reminds them that they can elect their governor, they can elect some of their leaders, but they cannot elect the president. They are not a state. They are not a country. And a lot of this is out of their hands.
michael barbaro
So the mismanagement by Puerto Rico’s own leadership leads the federal government, a government that Puerto Ricans don’t think really sees them as equal to the mainland, to step in. And it’s sort of this vicious cycle where the worse Puerto Rico’s leadership behaves, the more the federal government intervenes, and also has sort of proven correct in this argument that Puerto Rico doesn’t deserve or can’t quite properly handle this federal funding.
patricia mazzei
Right. And in the middle, the people of Puerto Rico keep suffering.
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michael barbaro
Pati, what happens now?
patricia mazzei
Well, the people on the streets want the governor to resign, but he says that he’s not going to go. There is talk in the legislature that they might impeach him, but they have not decided if they’re going to yet. Even if he goes, then there is a whole new set of questions. Can his replacement, in that case, govern? Many Puerto Ricans would like more autonomy to govern themselves, but who can they trust when the federal government is not inclined to give them more autonomy? The island government has not proven to be all that effective. How can the next person lead an island under these circumstances, under this sort of federal oversight, without any money, recovering from a hurricane? And basically, the biggest question is, is this island governable? Is this place a place that can be effectively run? And I don’t know the answer to that.
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michael barbaro
Pati, thank you very much.
patricia mazzei
Thank you, Michael.
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michael barbaro
We’ll be right back. Here’s what else you need to know today. On Thursday, the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz not far from where Iran shot down a U.S. drone several weeks ago. The Trump administration said that before it was struck, the unmanned Iranian drone had ignored multiple warnings that it was straying close to an American ship, the U.S.S. Boxer. The attack is expected to inflame tensions between the two countries. And —
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When your supporters last night were chanting “send her back,” why didn’t you stop them? Why didn’t you ask them to stop saying that?
archived recording (donald trump)
Well, number one, I think I did. I started speaking very quickly.
michael barbaro
President Trump on Thursday tried to distance himself from supporters who chanted “send her back” at a rally the night before when he mentioned Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a reference to his own tweet about Omar and three of her Democratic colleagues.
archived recording (donald trump)
I disagree with it, by the way. But it was quite a chant. And I felt a little bit badly about it.
michael barbaro
But contrary to the president’s claim that he tried to quickly end the chant, video shows he listened on for 13 seconds as the crowd repeatedly yelled.
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Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back!
michael barbaro
On Thursday afternoon, a large crowd greeted Congresswoman Omar as she returned to Minnesota.
archived recording
Welcome home, Ilhan! Welcome home, Ilhan! Welcome home, Ilhan! Welcome home, Ilhan! Welcome home, Ilhan!
michael barbaro
“The Daily” is made by Theo Balcomb, Andy Mills, Lisa Tobin, Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Alexandra Leigh Young, Jonathan Wolfe, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, Adizah Eghan, Kelly Prime, Julia Longoria, Sindhu Gnanasambandan and Jazmín Aguilera. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Mikayla Bouchard, Julia Simon, Stella Tan and William Rashbaum. That’s it for “The Daily.” I’m Michael Barbaro. See you on Monday.
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More specifically, Judiciary Committee members will press Mr. Mueller to expand on a handful of the dozen or so episodes of potential obstruction cited in his report — including Mr. Trump ordering Don McGahn, the White House counsel at the time, to fire Mr. Mueller, then later instructing Mr. McGahn to deny any such effort. The Trump administration has blocked Mr. McGahn himself, along with many others named in the report, from testifying before Congress.
Complicating matters, Mr. Mueller is seen as, if not a hostile witness, at least a grudging one. In his brief public statement on his report in May, he all but begged Congress not to force him to testify and warned that, if called, he would provide no information beyond the scope of his report. “The report is my testimony,” he asserted.
Lawmakers have held mock sessions, running through practice questions and fine-tuning them to be as pointed — and un-duckable — as possible. On “Fox News Sunday” this weekend, Jerrold Nadler, the Judiciary Committee chairman, offered an example of how this could go: “‘Look at Page 344, Paragraph 2. Please read it. Does that describe obstruction of justice? Did you find that the president did that?’”
That said, Democrats acknowledge that it will be a challenge to get anything new out of Mr. Mueller. As Mr. Schiff recently joked, “We have a far better chance of the love affair in North Korea working out” than of getting Mr. Mueller to say whether Mr. Trump should be indicted after leaving office.
With this in mind, Mr. Schiff noted that he and his fellow Democrats “have to decide how much of our time we want to spend fighting with him to discuss things outside the report.”
The House Democratic leadership has warned members against grandstanding.
Republicans also will be aiming to keep their team from overreaching and appearing too partisan in their attacks on Mr. Mueller, who is widely respected. It bears recalling that Representative Devin Nunes of California, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, has been among Congress’s most fervent crusaders in trying to discredit the Mueller investigation. Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas, a Republican who sits on the Judiciary Committee, put out a report titled “Mueller Unmasked” that claimed to expose “the disreputable, twisted history” of the special counsel.
Looking to stir up trouble, Mr. Trump has waded into the drama. On Monday, he tweeted out fresh insults of Mr. Mueller and warned that the hearings would end badly for Democrats. He even found a way to work in Hillary Clinton, claiming, bizarrely, that all of her people had been “given immunity.”
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