Republicans SNUB impeachment trial with a THIRD failing to turn up to hear Adam Schiff rebuke them for 'risking prison' by not being there, as Dems continue their case against the President

dm ^ | 1/23/2020 | By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and GEO

[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.

[TomGuy]

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.

Schiftt kept saying he had evidence. He never showed any. He claimed the whistleblower would tell all. Then, he refused to allow the whistleblower to testify.

Yeah, they have nothing. That is why Schumer is whining for more witnesses -- in hopes that someone will have something to stick.

[gcparent]

And then shoot us on the beaches.

[Revolutionary]

Fake news.

[onona]

You're late to the party again bub.

You are just spare parts, aren't ya

[Mr Rogers]

In a hostage situation, we could play the tapes. Even if the bad guys killed the hostages, the hostages would be better off....

[doorgunner69]

Old Stretch is a hilarious, dangerous old hag, not a bad example of anything/

[rollo tomasi]

Obama and Bush had (A bunch of others but not the amount Obama and Bush had) how many executive branch czars (Without Senate approval what-so-ever) doing the President's will that were private actors.

I hope Trump's legal team exposes the whole "game"/hypocrisies. Instead, I think they will just go for a quick dismissal of the Articles.

[DoodleDawg]

I’m betting that at least 20 Democrats will boycott the President’s legal teams presentation in response.

[Savage Beast]

The Democrat Party has championed every evil from slavery, the ku klux klan, lynching, and the Trail of Tears to infanticide, abortion, coup d'etat, voter fraud, illegal immigration, and this sham "impeachment."

And Democrats openly express their abject hatred for President Trump and his supporters.

The Democrat Party is truly the Party of Hate and Evil. It always has been.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, that’s why they’re in panic. They know Trump’s going to be re-elected and that he’s going to expose the truth about them, their corruption, and their crimes.

[OrangeHoof]

I’m sure those senators had socks to dry.

[rollo tomasi]

Who gives a crap, which is the entire point of this farce/Kabuki theater.

You don't think a conviction is in the cards do you? If not, why even bother with that response?

McConnell could give a crap about attendance until the vote on Articles occur.

[Pikachu_Dad]

did ge just say G. was a ‘human handgreanade’?

[samtheman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6Fz3_yLWM

[Pikachu_Dad]

Wait we are impeaching because they did not have a meeting?

Say what?

‘under relentless attack’ ?!? lol

[Pikachu_Dad]

so the ‘quo’ is the meeting?

wow

[rollo tomasi]

Sorry, "McConnell couldn't..." Been watching this stuff since Tuesday and hope this is a lesson for either Party to take impeachment more seriously because Senate trials are bore-fests.

[samtheman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPlO9WqByq0

[SuperLuminal]

"Do your f’ing jobs! It doesn’t matter that this is bullcrunch, it doesn’t matter that it’s the same crap day-after-day. You have a responsibility."

Yes indeed! If the communist moaning bores you, just sit there and work on something important... Like judicial appointments, which have disappeared into the past...

[dirtymac]

Maybe they are setting him up for a run for the Presidency under the Democratic ticket. He is a liar like none that I have ever seen even when compared to the rest of the Democratic candidates. He will surpass the field and in a brokered convention, he will be hailed as the new Liar in Chief.