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.
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“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.”
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You nailed it.
I didn't find any reference to this only that Tribe said they shouldn't wait for courts to decide on subpoenas. Anyone know the context of what Tribe's supposedly suggested? He's been pro-impeachment for ages.
Same here - he’s in with the “witnesses” who presume.....without the same facts he laments being missing.
Only cogent thing he said was that Schumer pretty much said the House didn’t provide enough to to what they essay to do.
Is the author still with Akin Gump, anyone know?
Just curious.
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