Posted on 12/27/2019 6:43:36 PM PST by tcrlaf
Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, tore into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his plans for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.
"The oath of loyalty is to the United States of America, not to Donald Trump. These senators, Democrats and Republicans, have an obligation to hear the facts, to hear witnesses, and make a decision," Painter said Thursday on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. "And for Mitch McConnell to say he’s working with the White House, coordinating with the defendant in this trial before the trial has even begun, is atrocious. He may think he’s a judge impaneling an all-white jury for a Klansman trial in Mississippi in 1965. That’s not the kind of trial we have."
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Same here. The swamp hates Rudy.
I believe there are more black GOP Senators now than when Bush was leading the GOP.
The Swamp hates us. Rudy is just a proxy for Trump voters.
GWB sure could pick them.
No wonder he had no clue what the Base wanted....his advisers all worked for the DNC
Yes, Tim Scott is the first Republican Senator since Ed Brooke of Massachusetts who retired long ago...the man Hillary Rodham insulted to his face when he attended her commencement ceremony and she gave one of the speeches.
Ex-Republican (never conservative) Richard Painter seems to have no problem with the Democrats disallowing Republicans to call witnesses. He had no problem with secret hearings, secret witnesses, and secret records that even those voting for impeachment were not allowed to see.
These phony RINOs are getting driven out of the body politic like a perverse legion of demons—with much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
He told the world what his goals were.
There was a time when pointing that out or (God forbid! quoting those old speeches after he was elected) could get you suspended or banned here.
But it was occasionally pointed out.
Sod off, swampy.
He’s got a face in that picture that just looks like it’s MADE for cheese pizza. Maybe even hot dogs.
Not you, of course, tcrlaf; the d*ckhead in the picture.
DAFUQ?
It’s supposed to be a jury of your peers. Not a jury prejudiced against you.
Bump, F W
I have pretty much lost ALL respect for GW Bush. I defended him, but he has turned out to be a traitor to the people who elected him.
So what if he doesn’t like Trump. How many times have all of us held our noses and voted for the Republican, because we were supporting the principles that Republicans supposedly espouse. Trump has been faithful to those principles, but because he doesn’t behave like the people at the country club are expected to, they want to destroy him. It’s beyond traitorous and disgusting.
“Painter became a Democrat.”
There is no doubt that if the Democrats pushed for single payer legal representation, with cost restrictions, citing their belief that legal representation is a basic human right, Painter and pretty much every liberal attorney would be screaming and working against the Democrats. Self-interested scummy hypocrites.
He's got Alzheimer's TDS. You can almost HEAR him filling his adult diaper on Twitter.
CORRECT. He is a Dumpster Fire.
Oh snap, point that out when he was President and 90% of Freepers would attack you. Many of them still around.
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