Posted on 12/19/2019 8:03:31 AM PST by ransomnote
I give Nancy 100% on the snark-o-meter
GLORIOUS!
she must have been a WH, or else the dems would have been all over her death.
Good Post!
At some point, prosecutors poking around your junk becomes harassment. Witnesses to Trump's conduct have exec privilege, etc., so the evidentiary issues here aren't trivial.
It's also up to the senate to decide when evidence becomes repetitive, irrelevant, etc. The rock bottom question is "are we going to remove for this," and they have a pretty good idea of the underlying "this" without the DEMs bringing in more witnesses and cherry picking and spinning for the public. Senate has an institutional reputation of its own, just as a court does.
As for Trump defense, he at least gets to provide an answer/rebuttal to the charges, and his 1st amendment isn't shut off. He's been ridiculing the DEMs case from the get-go, including with substantive evidence that seeps into the public.
I don't think this is a hard case. Either you find to whatever standard of belief you choose for yourself that Trump is calling on Ukrain to screw with Biden for election purposes, or not.
A weak defense is it is reasonable to suspect Biden s corrupt. A killer one is to prove Biden is corrupt.
And tribunal is the senate, not SCOTUS. The senate makes all impeachment trial rules. CJ SCOTUS is there so all the senators can sit as judge/jury on the "do we remove for this?" question.
Merry Christmas to your dad! I'm out of this conversation. Enjoyed it.
Re https://twitter.com/Matt41145588/status/1208115370332246016 Techno Fog
Vvveerrrrrrrry interestink!
Dad had a couple more points to make to your reply:
“You say “ The senate decides which, if any witnesses it
wants to learn from directly”. I must disagree. Fundamental
due process rights must include the ability for Trump to
present his own defense, including credible witnesses for
his defense.
More importantly, I would suggest to Trump that there are
significant indications the not all Republican members of
the Senate are highly motivated to defend him , and even a
few may have powerful motivation to NOT defend him.
(Deep State Swamp Members)”
Thanks again!
~Easy
The Speaker always invites the President to do a SotU. It’s tradition.
Remember when POTUS wanted to do it but couldn’t because she hadn’t invited him?
Ex-FBI analyst gets seven days in jail after illegally accessing the emails of anti-Mueller conspiracy theorist before handing screenshots to the media
Mark Tolson, 60, pleaded guilty in a federal court to one misdemeanor count of accessing without authorization the email account of lobbyist Jack Burkman
Burkman grew in prominence for a string of conspiracy theories he’s looked into with the help of Jacob Wohl
Sarah Gilbert Fox, the defendant’s wife, worked for the lobbyist from October 2017 to early summer 2018 and had access to his emails
Tolson learned in October that Burkman was planning a press conference where he would claim that special counsel Mueller committed sexual assault
He took photos of emails from Burkman’s account, sharing them with both the press and with his superiors
Tolson was sentenced to seven days in jail
ThankQ for the link to McConnell speech!
Thanks Cboldt! Merry Christmas to you too!
Pappadopoulas Podcast:
There is no question the senate will allow Trump to at least answer, and that is a defense even if sans witnesses.
It's up to the senate to figure out how much process has to occur in order to preserve the senate's credibility, and public (and history) acceptance of the outcome.
As for turncoats, takes 2/3rd to convict. Trump is safe. Plus, the articles really are a joke. The public might be that stupid, I don't know.
Our main findings pointed to human beings thoughts being controlled and manipulated with the content and AI Digital software provided by Google and other tech companies. In fact, areas in the brain that involve reason, rationality and the capacity to have free-formed thoughts are overwritten with wearable devices as they connect to the internet via 5G. In a sense, the person will seem more intelligent and capable, but at a micro level, they become a controlled zombie guided by AI.
From that link.
#MeToo. More debt and funding stupid lobbyist crap. Draining the swamp takes time I reckon.
Ah future proves past. Too bad they wouldn’t get it on that thread.
Thanks again!
with Martha - Barr spoke about social justice DAs - oursuing social agendas - not giving proper support to police..will lead to more crime.
Communities will not get the protection they need if support not there.
GREAT news about Bronfman!
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