Posted on 01/21/2020 7:23:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Two weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was in a bind.
Cracks were beginning to form in the ranks of Senate Republicans, and some moderate and vulnerable GOP senators were voicing their support for calling witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial — a measure McConnell and other allies of President Donald Trump were staunchly against.
Then John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, said he was prepared to testify. The announcement was McConnell's worst nightmare. A pivotal witness who was in the president's inner circle had stepped forward and offered to testify in Trump's trial. Could McConnell and Senate Republicans really afford to turn a blind eye?
The Kentucky Republican was stuck — until he wasn't.
This week, he announced in a resolution that the Senate would begin opening arguments on Wednesday in Trump's impeachment trial. If the Senate votes to hear from witnesses, it will depose them first and then vote on whether they should publicly testify.
The trial itself will be much more condensed than previous impeachment proceedings as well. If the Senate passes McConnell's resolution on Tuesday, each side will be given 24 hours to argue their case over three trial days. During former President Bill Clinton's trial, each side was allowed 24 hours of argument over four days.
Senators will then be given 16 hours for questioning.
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He was never in a bind. The Democrats simply didn’t understand who they were dealing with.
Machiavellian, like secret meetings and partisan party line votes?
Machiavellian like doing whatever it takes to get the job done and win.
LOL!
Don’t remember s4eing this view when Nancy and Schiff ran their Star Chamber.
LOL!
Don’t remember s4eing this view when Nancy and Schiff ran their Star Chamber.
They need to cut the cameras until the trial starts.
Journalism 101 for freshman.
[But, the Democrats don’t actually want him to testify because they are no more sure than we are what he would say.]
If I could wish one dead person would be alive today, it would be Saul Alinsky. Just for him to see how dangerously close we got to his demented vision for our country. A look at the likes of Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Booker, lundgren, Waters, Obama, etc. The MSM WHORES, the corrupted judges, Soros, education, the Milennials.
And when his grin cannot get any wider and his eyes start to tear with joy...
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
The wailing and gnashing of Alinsky when realizing this ONE MAN stands between the death of our country and the beautiful spacious skies of our freedom.
And when he looks at TRUMP, I hope his last vision is PDJT praying. And thanking God for the GRACE He shed on America.
The authors of this piece are hysterics. Machiavellian would be having the House managers killed. This is just politics as usual - both sides get their say, and a verdict is rendered, based partly along party lines.
And “deemed passed”
Oh how unfair! Unless you realize the Clinton impeachment had 4 counts and not just 2. Amazing how that little bit of information was left out, right?
Bolton said he would testify if subpoenaed in response to Biden saying he would refuse to testify if subpoenaed.
He said he was prepared to testify if The White House did not assert executive privilege or if a court order overturned the assertion
Neither will likely happen
Executive Privilege has already been asserted and, while the Supreme Court has determined that executive privilege cannot be used to conceal criminal behavior, every witness in the House impeachment hearings denied any existence of criminal conduct
He may be pissed at the President for being fired-for-reason, but to think he would say anything to support the communists in control of the House is, IMHO, a ludicrous stretch...
It is hard to believe that the demoncrats actually want him to testify... It's the dozens of other wing-nuts that it would open the door for testifying that the communist scum are angling for...
Everything the communists are doing is a delaying action (they have always known there was almost zero chance for a guilty verdict), for as long as possible, and hoping for some event or catastrophe to give them some sort of foothold going into the election...
Short version: The author is whining that the House has a lousy case that they didn’t do any due diligence on and McConnell outsmarted Schmuckey Choomer.
Boo hoo!
I’m convinced yahoo is a part of Babylon , lol
Succinct.
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