Posted on 01/23/2020 1:09:32 PM PST by RummyChick
Adam Schiff rebuked Republican senators for walking out of Donald Trump's impeachment trial on the second full day of the Democratic case to remove the president – but at least 16 senators weren’t even there at the start of his remarks for the historic trial.
Just minutes later, fellow Democratic impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler made a key constitutional point by playing a video clip from Sen. Lindsey Graham from the impeachment of Bill Clinton – but Graham was not even in the chamber to hear it.
The moment was noticeable inside the august Senate chamber, and was not lost on Senate GOP conference chair John Barrasso, who sits next to Graham. As other senators looked toward TV screens to see Graham – himself a former impeachment manager in 1999 – Barrasso looked sheepishly upward, placing his hand over the empty chair.
Luckily for Graham and tardy lawmakers, their absence and movements was not visible to the wider public. Senate rules prevent C-Span or other networks from photography inside the chamber, and the Senate Sergeant At Arms controls the fixed camera feet blasted out to the viewing public. It shows only the speaker, be it Schiff or Nadler, speaking in the well of the chamber with a marble background.
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This is nothing but demon possession and sociopathy writ large on the part of the democrats.
II Tim. 3:1-5; the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul had them figured out a long time ago.
This is nothing but demon possession and sociopathy writ large on the part of the democrats.
II Tim. 3:1-5; the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul had them figured out a long time ago.
I don’t think the President’s Dream Team is going to take up all their allotted time.
I hope they keep it short and sweet.
There’s nothing compelling. No corpus delicti, no perpetrator and no victim.
Why are we here? If this is all Democrats got, they got nothing.
And here I was feeling sorry for the GOP Senators!
Hear! Hear!
Walked out or just in the cloak room?
At our Legislature, there is a is a backroom for the legislators.
They are probably listening at a spot shere they can move about.
oh no... a period of uncertainty cause an ambassador was fired.
Seriously?
Why did Trump remove a (insert praise here)
oh no, ‘she was “in the way” of the sham investigations.
That lesbo Ukraine ambassador probably developed CrowdStrike herself or gave it influence to grift and manipulate.
Our guys are great but NO ONE should be forced to listen to that non-stop drivel.
We could use the tapes as a form or torture - “if you don’t tell us where the money is, we’ll make you listen to Adam Schiff and his impeachment managers”...
Isnt’ the new Ukrainiane leader a Trump type?
They make it sound like they are on opposite pages.
So we are impeaching because he embarresed an ambassador?
Actually, they were watching her because she had apparently been following and spying on other diplomatic and US personnel. I think it’s reasonable to ask why an ambassador needs to spy on what are theoretically her own countrymen.
What a tight cut of Gullianis statement. Probably say out of context
How many Dem senators will be absent when the Repubs are presenting their case?
oh no... “Trump directed people to ‘talk to Rudy’”
Trump is being impeached for sticking his nose into corruption that tried to prevent his election in 2016 as well as politically connected US citizens making a lot of money through foreign aid paid for by the US taxpayer and future generations of American citizens (Debt policy).
I crack myself up
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