Posted on 12/17/2019 5:09:41 PM PST by Hojczyk
House Democrats are highly unlikely to follow Larry Tribe’s suggestion that they decline to transmit their articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial. Thus, Senate Democrats will need a trial strategy.
Byron York tell us that a major part of the strategy will be to demand more information. What information? Mainly testimony from past and present administration officials like Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton
The Senate Democrats mantra can be summed up in a comment by Chuck Schumer. He said:”To engage in a trial without the facts coming out is to engage in a cover-up.”
This statement can be turned around as follows: “To impeach a president before the facts have come out is a disgrace.”
Actually, that’s not what happened. An abundance of facts came out during the House proceedings. In my view, the only reasonable conclusion from those facts is that President Trump, for a brief time, withheld the release of aid to Ukraine pending announcement by that country of an investigation of Joe Biden.
House Democrats clearly agree. They argued have argued it constantly for weeks. It will be their basis approving the primary article of impeachment.
Thus, Senate Democrats undercut the House Dems and their primary impeachment article by moaning that they need more facts. What they want is a smoking gun, something that might turn public opinion around. (They wouldn’t get it from the witnesses they want to have testify at trial or from Mueller grand jury testimony).
Mitch McConnell dismissed the whining of Schumer and other Senate Democrats with this comment: “The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rush sloppily through it.”
He’s right. I think the American public will agree.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Ain’t no demand for more information coming from the House Dems, they’re ready to vote. So which is it dems?
what i want to know is what dirt somebody has on shiff and nancy?
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
Stopped reading at:
“In my view, the only reasonable conclusion from those facts is that President Trump, for a brief time, withheld the release of aid to Ukraine pending announcement by that country of an investigation of Joe Biden.”
I read today that House Dems might NOT send the impeachment to the Senate..can they even do that..I mean they know Trump wont be impeached in the Senate so they just want it to hover over his head til the next election
Schmukie didn’t throw the house rats under the bus that’s BS It’s all part of the plan.
From said "great article"..........
An abundance of facts came out during the House proceedings. In my view, the only reasonable conclusion from those facts is that President Trump, for a brief time, withheld the release of aid to Ukraine pending announcement by that country of an investigation of Joe Biden.
Utter nonsense.
BINGO!
Yep, thats a lie.
Exactly. As Jim Jordan asked: “When was the announcement?”
“Stopped reading at: “In my view, the only reasonable conclusion from those facts is that President Trump, for a brief time, withheld the release of aid to Ukraine pending announcement by that country of an investigation of Joe Biden.””
Yes, I found that very odd.
I haven’t read the entire transcript of the call, but my understanding was that the mention of Biden and the mention of aid to the Ukraine were separated by other subject matter. The dishonest Dims were trying to put those comments by Trump out of context to give them a sinister intent.
Did I miss something here?
I wish I were a young man and had the chanced to fight each Evil Democrat in the House. Their Evil can not be compared with any individual I have ever heard of including Hitler.
Yup.
Yeah...that did it for me too.
Mitch gave a great address today. Credit where credit is due.
I don’t even remember the mention of funding to the Ukraine in any part of the transcript of the phone call. In fact, I just went through it again, and there is no mention whatsoever of any funding in it.
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