Most notably, Trump appears to suggest that Comey committed perjury.
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He has committed perjury (at least) in the Jones case.
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The suggestions that Sessions committed perjury are far-fetched and unsupported.
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The one who's committed perjury should not be walking the streets.
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The special prosecutor's primary focus will be on whether Lau committed perjury.
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L'Italien says Thomas committed perjury during the hearings by lying under oath.
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Would you say Jeff Sessions committed perjury, or is there some wiggle room?
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I'm no legal scholar, but I believe that Judge Kavanaugh committed perjury under oath.
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Giuffre alleges that Dershowitz knowingly made false assertions that she committed perjury by accusing him.
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Michael Cohen's book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before.
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It also starts to bleed into Trump's more bombastic allegations, most notably that Comey committed perjury.
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This doesn't necessarily mean Barr committed perjury, as some lawmakers suggested after Mueller's letter became public.
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Papadopoulos, apparently, never even committed perjury about when he said he met this so-called Russian professor.
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"Based on all the testimony so far, I believe that Ambassador Gordon Sondland committed perjury," tweeted Rep.
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"Based on all the testimony so far, I believe that Ambassador Gordon Sondland committed perjury," Castro tweeted.
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House Democrats are now pursuing a formal deposition of Whitaker as they scrutinize whether he committed perjury.
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"Ultimately, whether or not he committed perjury, will be again, I believe, Bob Mueller's call," Franken said.
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"Michael Cohen's book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before," Trump wrote.
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Sondland submitted new testimony last week, however, following rumblings among Democrats that he might have committed perjury.
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The House Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing next month on allegations that Clinton committed perjury.
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There is little indication that federal prosecutors believe he committed perjury in his statements about the judicial memos.
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In July 1998, Clinton testified over the allegations that he'd committed perjury by lying about his affair with Lewinsky.
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Proving that someone committed perjury means overcoming a high hurdle: that the person knowingly told a falsehood under oath.
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Added Franken: "Ultimately, whether or not he committed perjury, will be again, I believe, (special counsel) Bob Mueller's call."
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Indeed, a judge reaffirmed that Clinton committed perjury, a crime for which thousands of other citizens have been jailed.
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There is clear evidence that President Clinton committed perjury on two or more occasions, and urged others to obstruct justice.
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A return to Congress would mark a second try in a place where Cohen already committed perjury for Trump's benefit.
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This "legal training" didn't stop him from implying the top law enforcement official in the country may have committed perjury.
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Kaine's remarks also come as Republicans push the Justice Department to look into whether Clinton ever committed perjury before Congress.
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Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said Friday Sessions should resign from his post because he "absolutely" committed perjury during his testimony.
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In July 1998, Clinton testified about the allegations that he&aposd committed perjury by lying about his affair with Lewinsky.
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Trump's assertion that Cohen's book proposal shows he "committed perjury on a scale not seen before" doesn't really add up.
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However, the committee is probing whether Whitaker committed perjury while giving testimony, a person familiar with the matter told The Journal.
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Starr led the investigation into allegations that Clinton committed perjury and obstructed justice when he denied having an affair with Lewinsky.
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Moreover, it would be virtually impossible to prove that Justice Kavanaugh committed perjury — that is, willfully lied about a material fact.
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Clarence Thomas committed perjury when accused of sexual harassment then went on to significantly weaken laws against harassment as a justice.
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So if Donald Trump, for instance, committed perjury about some real estate deal in Manhattan, that would not be an impeachable offense.
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Half of the country is likely to remain firm in its view that he assaulted Ford and committed perjury on the allegations.
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Chaffetz and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, also a Republican, last month urged federal prosecutors to investigate whether Clinton had committed perjury.
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But the new letter from Monico is unlikely to satisfy Republicans, who have charged Cohen may have committed perjury in his testimony.
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While Barr seemingly lied in the everyday sense of the term, it's more complicated to prove he committed perjury under federal criminal law.
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" Dershowitz said that Swetnick's allegations should "thoroughly be investigated" and says if she is found to have committed perjury, "there should be consequences.
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Clinton committed perjury when she testified last October that she did not send or receive emails that were marked classified at the time.
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Chuck Grassley (R-IA) gave Kavanaugh an opportunity to respond to Democrats' notion that he had committed perjury during his hearing in 2004.
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Mike Quigley, a Chicago Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, accused Sessions of having committed perjury about an alleged undisclosed third meeting in April.
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" Schiff declined to name who among the committee's witnesses he believed might have committed perjury, but he said he had concerns about "multiple witnesses.
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But he might have been looking to cover himself by denying involvement in the plot — and he may have committed perjury in his testimony.
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Whether Mr. Davis committed perjury or just had a faulty memory will be difficult to determine and ultimately may not be of great significance.
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The attorney general "certainly gave misleading testimony" to Congress about his interactions with Mueller, Comey said, but there isn't strong evidence that Barr committed perjury.
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Clinton had "committed perjury and made false statements" during her appearance in October before a special House panel on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
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"I don't think any reasonable attorney who looks at it would conclude that I committed perjury, which requires intent and materiality," Stone told the paper.
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" Mr. Wittes added that he did not believe that Mr. Barr had lied or committed perjury — but that it "is possible to mislead without lying.
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"Clarence Thomas committed perjury when accused of sexual harassment then went on to significantly weaken laws against harassment as a justice," L'Italien tweeted on Wednesday.
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It centered on whether anyone who was interviewed by investigators or testified before a grand jury about the tapes made false statements or committed perjury.
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Rep. Joaquin CastroJoaquin CastroSondland emerges as key target after Vindman testimony New testimony raises concerns over Sondland's credibility, says Wasserman Schultz Intelligence panel Democrat: It appears Sondland committed perjury MORE (D-Texas), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said late Monday that he believes U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland committed perjury in his congressional testimony to investigators in their impeachment inquiry.
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"Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication," Trump wrote, suggesting that Comey, who was under oath at the hearing, had committed perjury.
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Mr. Starr's conclusion that Mr. Clinton had committed perjury in sworn testimony denying having had "sexual relations" with Ms. Lewinsky eventually led to Mr. Clinton's impeachment.
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So it was no surprise this week when compelling evidence emerged that the secretary may have committed perjury in his zealous pursuit of the president's agenda.
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After an investigation by a congressional subcommittee into whether he'd committed perjury in denying the charges, he was tried twice, and was eventually convicted in 1950.
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Al Franken said he now believes that Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearing when he did not disclose meetings with a Russian ambassador.
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Stephanie McLean, a Member of Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Varsity, said in a tweet that the man committed perjury and that he should face time in prison.
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When Jeff Sessions testifies today before the Senate Intelligence Committee, he'll face tough questions about whether he committed perjury the last time he spoke to the Senate.
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Schiff has said that he wanted to send the transcripts to Mueller for review to see whether any other witnesses who appeared before the committee committed perjury.
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One, approved by a 228-206 vote, alleges that Clinton committed perjury when he told a grand jury that he did not have an affair with Lewinsky.
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Sessions strenuously denied he'd committed perjury in his confirmation hearings — because he maintained he'd met with Kislyak as a senator, not as an adviser to presidential candidate Trump.
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A federal judge later found that Clinton committed perjury, a crime for which he was never charged, despite thousands of Americans who have faced such charges and jail.
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The appeals court overturned Maxwell&aposs convictions decades later after it found that he was the victim of a notorious jailhouse snitch who committed perjury in his two convictions.
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On the other side, one of Mr. Greitens's lead lawyers, Ed Dowd, also filed a complaint that Mr. Tisaby had committed perjury and Ms. Gardner's office had concealed information.
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In the course of that interview she told me things that showed she had committed perjury at this man's trial, and led to his conviction in Texas being reversed.
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This week, Trump has leveled charges that Clinton was on the verge of being indicted (she isn't), and that Clinton committed perjury (which he didn't offer any evidence to support).
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Cummings said last week that he wants to examine the transcript from Cohen's closed-door testimony with the House Intelligence Committee before deciding whether the president's ex-fixer committed perjury.
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While the evidence of perjury was overwhelming, and a federal court affirmed that Clinton committed perjury, Democratic House members voted as a bloc and refused to impeach or convict him.
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He has committed perjury (at least) in the Jones case... He has tried to disgrace [Ken Starr] and this Office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make Nixon blush.
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HLN's title implies that the blame for the scandal lies at her feet when, in reality, Clinton is the one who committed perjury while holding the highest office in the land.
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Meanwhile, Trump's outside lawyer insisted that it was Comey who lied when he detailed conversations between himself and the President, raising the suggestion that Comey committed perjury while testifying under oath.
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Trump's outside lawyer insisted Thursday that it was Comey who lied when he detailed conversations between himself and the President, raising the accusation that Comey committed perjury while testifying under oath.
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Most recently, House Democrats are scrutinizing whether former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker committed perjury when he denied that he was subject to Trump's pressuring, according to the New York Times.
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The wiretapping tweet successfully knocked out of the headlines discussion over whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury when he falsely told a Senate committee that he had no contacts with Russians.
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Democrats have said Sessions might have committed perjury with his testimony, but Sessions has argued that he has always told the truth and his testimony was to the best of his recollection.
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But Nadler and other House Democrats have made it clear they are also interested in investigating something else entirely: the question of whether Kavanaugh lied under oath to the Senate and committed perjury.
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"It says you might have committed perjury," the stranger says, referring to a report that Sessions spoke twice with Russia's ambassador last year but did not mention those conversations during his confirmation hearings.
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At least two Democratic members of the Senate judiciary committee, Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, have asked the FBI to investigate whether Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearings.
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They split up opening and closing statements and also took the lead on the House Republican charges that the president committed perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up his affair with Lewinsky.
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Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina sent the Justice Department a criminal referral of Cohen for possible prosecution, claiming to have evidence that Cohen committed perjury in his testimony.
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Bill Clinton became the second, in 1998; after an investigation into his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the Republican-controlled House voted that he had committed perjury before a grand jury and obstructed justice.
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On December 503, 1998, the House approved three articles of impeachment along party lines — charging Clinton had lied to a grand jury, committed perjury by denying his relationship with Lewinsky, and obstructed justice.
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Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government reform committee, has called on the Justice Department to open an inquiry into whether Clinton committed perjury in testimony before the Benghazi committee.
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While Trump and his attorney had both previously intimated that Comey had lied before Congress (which is a felony) Trump did everything but say "James Comey committed perjury" in the Rose Garden on Friday.
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It's become clear that Democrats have been trying to build a case that Kavanaugh committed perjury, and raising concerns about the differences in Kavanuagh's email communications and past testimonies is part of that strategy.
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Democratic Representative Ted Lieu, who sits on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, said on Twitter on Tuesday he believes Sessions committed perjury when he previously denied knowledge of contact between Trump's campaign and Russia.
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Randall Adams was exonerated in 1989, after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that the case's prosecutor, Douglas Mulder, withheld evidence suggesting that Emily Miller, the state's key witness against Adams, had committed perjury.
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At the same time, it's clear that there was a strong case that Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice in his efforts to cover up the Lewinsky saga, both of which are impeachable offenses.
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Prosecutors may ask the court to find they committed perjury by testifying that they were unaware of any scheme to engage in misconduct on behalf of the governor, which could push the potential punishment even higher.
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On December 11, 1998, the House approved three articles of impeachment along party lines — that Clinton had lied to a grand jury, he had committed perjury by denying his relationship with Lewinsky, and he had obstructed justice.
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"So Cohen's lawyer is admitting that Cohen committed perjury just last week when he said he NEVER sought a pardon?" the president's son, who of the Trump children was the closest to Mr. Cohen, posted on Twitter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic U.S. senator on Friday asked the FBI to probe whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen committed perjury when she testified to Congress that the administration never had a policy to separate immigrant families.
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Joaquin CastroJoaquin CastroSondland emerges as key target after Vindman testimony New testimony raises concerns over Sondland's credibility, says Wasserman Schultz Intelligence panel Democrat: It appears Sondland committed perjury MORE (D-Texas), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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President Trump called for Congress to obtain the manuscript of Michael Cohen's unpublished book, in which the president claimed would show his former lawyer "committed perjury on a scale not seen before" in a series of Friday tweets.
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Meanwhile, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) plans to formally ask the FBI this week to investigate whether Clinton committed perjury when she testified before the House Select Committee on Benghazi last fall.
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They argued that in the effort to spare himself from the personal and marital embarrassment entailed by having the affair exposed, Clinton committed perjury when testifying about the matter in a deposition related to Paula Jones's lawsuit against him.
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" As New York magazine's Matt Stieb explains, it's unlikely that Barr committed perjury because "the legal purview of perjury is incredibly narrow, and Barr had most likely worded his response in a way that would avoid such a charge.
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And as Democrats pressed an argument that Kavanaugh committed perjury during his testimony, Collins said she would study the matter and it would be a "major problem" for her if he lied, she told the Portland Press Herald. Sen.
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He had been acquitted of this charge in normal criminal court, but a special committee of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Hastings had committed perjury and tampered with evidence in the case to secure his acquittal.
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An order signed by Robbin Stuckert, the chief judge in DeKalb County, Illinois, appoints the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to look into whether a Seattle police officer committed perjury when she testified during the 21957 murder trial of Jack Daniel McCullough.
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The House Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing when Congress returns from its summer recess next month on allegations that Clinton committed perjury while discussing her private email setup before the House Select Committee on Benghazi last year.
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Turpin committed perjury by filing affidavits with the state department of education that stated "the children in the home were receiving a fulltime education in a private day school," the Riverside County, California, district attorney's office said in a tweet.
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Unlike President Clinton, who knowingly lied under oath and was later found by a federal court to have committed perjury, Trump has not spoken under oath and only gave limited answers in writing to a few questions from the special counsel.
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But with Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky, we know what happened: A president being sued for sexual harassment tried to buy off a mistress-turned-potential-witness with White House favors, and then committed perjury serious enough to merit disbarment.
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President Bill Clinton was on the defensive after The Washington Post, where I was working then, broke the news that Ken Starr was investigating whether the president had committed perjury to cover up an affair with a former White House intern.
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On Friday, Mr. Casado, a former New York City police officer who was forced to resign after he committed perjury in court, stood before a federal judge and was sentenced to three years in prison and three years supervised release.
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The Republican chairmen of two U.S. House of Representatives committees on Monday asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton committed perjury during testimony to Congress about her use of a private email server.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican chairmen of two U.S. House of Representatives committees asked the Justice Department on Monday to launch an investigation into whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton committed perjury during testimony to Congress about her use of a private email server.
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"The truthfulness of many of our witnesses has been difficult to ascertain, which is why I have urged the committee to make the transcripts available to special counsel Mueller for a determination whether any witnesses committed perjury before our committee," Schiff said.
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"I write to request an investigation to determine whether Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen committed perjury during her sworn testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 20, 2018," Merkley wrote in his request to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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It took Kenneth Starr, a former special counsel, around four years and $40 million to complete his investigation into President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, and whether Clinton committed perjury and obstructed justice in an effort to cover up the scandal.
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The crux of the argument is that Mr. Davis committed perjury in his testimony about when he got a prepaid cellular telephone from Mr. Walters, which was nicknamed the "Bat Phone" and used to communicate the confidential information about Dean Foods and Darden.
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The Clinton inquiry, meanwhile, was essentially just a decision about whether to impeach the president based on the findings of independent counsel Ken Starr's report (which alleged Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice to try to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky).
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The two biggest questions facing Sessions will revolve around whether he effectively recused himself from the Russia investigation — given that he also signed off on Comey's firing — and whether he committed perjury in failing to disclose contacts with the Russian ambassador during his confirmation hearing.
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At sentencing later, Judge John J. Sirica read a letter from Mr. McCord charging that witnesses had committed perjury and implying that the White House had covered up its connection to the break-in and pressured the burglars to plead guilty and remain silent.
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"He has committed perjury (at least) in the Jones case," Mr. Kavanaugh wrote, referring to the sexual harassment case brought by Paula Jones, an Arkansas state worker who said Mr. Clinton had made lewd advances toward her in a hotel room when he was governor.
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Moreover, an impeachment investigation could also encompass allegations that Judge Kavanaugh has committed perjury before the Senate, twice, related to his work on the nomination of a District Court judge, Charles Pickering, to be a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Jeff Merkley submitted a written request to FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking an investigation into whether Nielsen "committed perjury during her sworn testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 20, 2018," when she said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not have a policy of separating families.
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Representative Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat in line to be the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said on Friday that, should House Democrats win control of the chamber in November, they would open an investigation into the accusations against Justice Kavanaugh, including the possibility that he committed perjury in his testimony.
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Joaquin CastroJoaquin CastroSpeier: Hearing transcripts will likely be released in next five days Sondland emerges as key target after Vindman testimony New testimony raises concerns over Sondland's credibility, says Wasserman Schultz MORE (D-Texas), who tweeted that he believed U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland committed perjury during his testimony.
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Should a judge, having taken such an oath, deviate into the fantastical world of the "living constitution," that judge would have committed perjury of oath — an offense falling under the common-law understanding of "high crimes and misdemeanors," which is the legal threshold to warrant impeachment under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.
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During the 1998 investigation into whether President Bill Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up an affair with Ms. Lewinsky, an appeals court ruled that government lawyers do not enjoy the same attorney-client privilege as private lawyers and that prosecutors in some circumstances can compel a White House lawyer to testify.
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The possibility that Sessions failed to mention repeated contacts with the Russian ambassador in his vetting forms and confirmation hearings raises the possibility that it was a deliberate omission on Sessions's part — which means he may have committed perjury when he testified under oath in his confirmation hearing that he'd had no contact with the Russian government.
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Al Franken, however, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" Tuesday that he believes Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearing when he did not disclose previous meetings with a Russian ambassador to the US. Whitehouse said it is not yet clear if Sessions perjured himself, but requiring him to answer more questions could provide some clarity.
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Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said Friday that Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE "absolutely" committed perjury in his Senate testimony regarding contact between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are planning to press officials from the FBI in a hearing scheduled for next month on allegations that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE committed perjury.
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Lanny Davis, an attorney for Michael Cohen, blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE Friday over a series of tweets suggesting Cohen committed perjury in front of Congress regarding a possible book deal.
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Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) says he believes that Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE "absolutely" committed perjury when he told lawmakers earlier this year that he was unaware of any contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians.
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In blistering remarks, House Oversight chairman Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE accused Comey of setting a "dangerous" precedent and said lawmakers would soon refer questions to the FBI about whether Clinton had committed perjury by lying about her servers while under oath on Capitol Hill.
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Waters, chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, asked Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Hillicon Valley: House passes key surveillance bill | Paul, Lee urge Trump to kill FISA deal | White House seeks help from tech in coronavirus fight | Dem urges Pence to counter virus misinformation House passes key surveillance bill with deadline looming MORE in a Tuesday letter to probe whether Sloan committed perjury during a March 85033, 2019, hearing on Wells Fargo's extensive oversight failures.
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Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D-Minn.) said Tuesday he thinks Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE committed perjury during his confirmation hearing.
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Committee Chairwoman Maxine WatersMaxine Moore WatersLawmakers shame ex-Wells Fargo directors for failing to reboot bank The Hill's Morning Report - Biden delivers another devastating blow to Sanders On The Money: Trump, Congress struggle for economic deal under coronavirus threat | Trump voices support for paid sick leave | Wells Fargo chief pledges fresh start for scandal-ridden bank MORE (D-Calif.) on Tuesday asked the Department of Justice to probe whether Scharf's predecessor, Timothy Sloan, committed perjury during a hearing one year ago that examined Wells Fargo's extensive oversight failures (The Hill).
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