Posted on 01/16/2020 1:54:26 AM PST by Libloather
Two things happened simultaneously on Wednesday: (a) The House of Representatives transmitted to the Senate two articles of impeachment approved on straight partisan lines a month ago, and (b) the House’s impeachment inquiry - yes, it’s still very much alive - highlighted new, relevant evidence it has turned up about the activities in Ukraine of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Giuliani’s associates.
The Democrats’ strategy is coming clear.
The House provided the Senate with two half-baked impeachment articles. House Democrats rushed through the investigation, forgoing salient witnesses and evidence, because of the political calendar.
The charges are weak and the inquiry was needlessly short-circuited, so Democrats have continued investigating the premature allegations. Now they are publicly disclosing newly acquired evidence, with the promise of more to come. Transparently, their goal is to pressure the Senate not merely to conduct a trial but to complete the investigation that the House failed to complete - calling witnesses and gathering evidence, as if a trial were nothing more than an extension of an open-ended grand jury probe.
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No more time or extensions. End the pathetic grandstanding and fist bumping. San Fran Gran Nan's wad has been shot. No need to embarrass the RATS any further even though it would be well deserved. Crush this political scam into the ground.
L8r
They had nothing, nada, not one iota of credible or legitimate evidence. Yeah, they got nothing cause they HAD NOTHING! They were on Trump impeachment from Day One.....
Ban & Outlaw the Democrat Party
100% . Just do it . America has zero
need for these seditious, despicable cretins anymore.
Get rid of them .
no more stinkin delays... get this overwith long time ago..
this is not an impeachment it is the overthrow of a gov with socialism ready in the wings.
dont legitimize it by using a name the dims want to use. call it what it is! A treasonous coup to get their power back.
how society has become seat warmers, allowing anything that comes along...turning away from condemnation of wrongs till it is accepted.
pitiful!
Kind of too late to delay, now that McConnell has the articles.
Prosecute the corruption in the House, quit stalling. They are never going to quit searching for crimes that are not there if it covers there malfeasance.
The House needs more time to manufacture evidence.
+1000!
+1000!
The trial shouldn’t be postponed. Its not the Senate’s job to fix the House’s shortcomings and if it emerges later that Trump is guilty, its all on the Democrats.
They could have taken all the time in the world to build their case. They didn’t do it and that ship has sailed.
Trial courts don’t do do overs and neither should the Senate.
“This is not supposed to be a non-stop grand jury” - McCarthy’s own words.
No surprise he makes no sense - His piece is legalistic - this Pelosi scheme is on a different playing field.
Not true. There was bipartisan support against impeachment.
The bastards figured out what they done wrong in the first one and now will have more trumped (pardon the pun) up evidence.
I swear this stuff gets crazier every day. Shouldn’t we all know by now that Pelosi’s House will never finish its impeachment of POTUS. It’s going to be perpetual as long as President Trump remains president.
Trying to pull a bait and switch doesn’t work while the judicial branch of the government is watching. Once voted upon, that’s it, signed, sealed and (eventually) delivered. No bolting on, no deleting.
Schiffhead is still running the investigation and Schmuck wants to bring in new witnesses like Bolton who saw and heard nothing on this phone call.
Andy’s almost right. The Senate needs to vote to dismiss *with* prejudice.
ScatFranNan = Best GOP plant ever.
Chuckles Schumer, while on The View, proclaimed, “How do you run a trial with no witnesses, and documents, no evidence?”
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I don’t know. How do you indict someone with no evidence?
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