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Reporter's Notebook: Trump's Senate impeachment trial could boil down to one word – 'pettifogging'
Fox News ^ | January 23 2020 | Chad Pergram

Posted on 01/23/2020 11:05:08 PM PST by knighthawk

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has had enough of the impeachment trial by the time it got to the first dinner break in President Trump’s impeachment trial Tuesday night.

“God help us if we have to listen to [House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Adam Schiff, D-Calif., prattle on for 24 hours, non-stop,” lamented Cruz in the Senate subway terminal.

This is the balancing act for the Democrats. Schiff is the face of the Democrats’ impeachment effort. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., handpicked Schiff to be the lead impeachment manager to present the House’s case to the Senate, leapfrogging House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.

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1 posted on 01/23/2020 11:05:08 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Schiffhead the great bloviator, is just turning people off.

Do you reality need to take days to make an “overwhelming” case?

As the Bard famously remonstrated, “brevity is the soul of wit”.

The irony is Schiffhead unintentionally is making the President’s case for him. Go figure.


2 posted on 01/23/2020 11:12:50 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: knighthawk

Between Schiff and Nadler, hard to say who has been more of a disaster fot the Democrats.

Not the kind of people who make friends and influence people. They come across as arrogant, unctuous and full of themselves.

God bless the brilliant strategist, Nancy Pelosi, for saddling us with them.

They just need to go away! Geez.


3 posted on 01/23/2020 11:20:10 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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4 posted on 01/23/2020 11:24:58 PM PST by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: knighthawk

Marxine Waters should have been the lead impeachment manager. She for the most part invented Trump impeachment around November 2016. It’s racist not to have her be the lead here.


5 posted on 01/23/2020 11:36:56 PM PST by C210N
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They have a token minority. Val Demmings.


6 posted on 01/23/2020 11:39:02 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: knighthawk

Go to the socialist news sites and read the comments. They believe Shif to be at least as powerful in rhetoric as Wilberforce.


7 posted on 01/23/2020 11:46:51 PM PST by lurk
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To: knighthawk

FNC Democrat butt kisser Chad Pergram makes me sick on the same level as low life Chris Wallace does!!!

Someone should tell Butt Wipoer, Chad Pergrum that Democrat Traitor/Turncoat Adam Schiff has very few Americans hearing or heeding his words. FNC should be ashamed of itself with Pergrum, Perino, Wallace, Williams and Baier...period!!! The Tuned in TV audience numbers are dismal to say the least!!!

Folks....let us see how FNC treats and covers the massive “March For Life” this morning in Washington, DC and around the entire country!!!!!!


8 posted on 01/24/2020 12:15:19 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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Have to agree about Chad, Catherine Herrige was so much better sure miss her I can’t believe she went over to the Liberal CBS!!!


9 posted on 01/24/2020 12:17:36 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Finally found an accurate readout of TV viewers of the impeachment hearings from Reuters. The number of TV viewers dropped 11% from the first day down to a paltry 8,000,000 out of a potential audience of 330,000,000, Americans. Be the third day only 5,000,000 Americans tuned in on TV!!!

Looks like Pelsoi, Schumer, Schiff, Nalder, etc, ain’t gonna come close to making the “Hit Parade”. Boy that Democrat Lap Dog Media is silent on those horrible TV ratings!!!

Fact is; a vast majority of the American people want this Democrat Party farce over and done with, right now!!!


10 posted on 01/24/2020 12:44:21 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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House Democrats problem is Americans don’t care.

Republicans aren’t going to face voter reprisals if they just vote to acquit the President.

They probably have figured that out already and in six months it will be all forgotten.

Its not a winning issue for the Democrats.


11 posted on 01/24/2020 12:49:52 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Likely have a bigger foreign reporter travel budget so more foreign news stories which fox never covered.


12 posted on 01/24/2020 2:04:44 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: knighthawk
Outcome 1: Chief Justice Roberts has resurrected "pettifogging" - (adj.) Undue emphasis on minor facts / petty details. [16th Century]. This describes the Democrat Articles to perfection, a petty tantrum about the bad orange man.

Outcome 2: The Democrat Party will continue this as long as the party faithful are willing to pay for it to keep going. This is now solely a fundraising and publicity blitz marathon paid with our tax dollars. After this farce finishes, we KNOW (by their own admissions) that they will try, try again.

13 posted on 01/24/2020 3:54:04 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: knighthawk

A ‘gay’ word in my opinion. Robert’s admonition had way too much embroidery.


14 posted on 01/24/2020 4:51:24 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: knighthawk

I may watch tomorrow when the defense presents its case.


15 posted on 01/24/2020 5:05:40 AM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: goldstategop

Schittforbrains..........


16 posted on 01/24/2020 5:07:51 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: goldstategop

Schiff is a frustrated screenwriter.
Scratch that and you’ll find a frustrated actor.

For him this may be little more than the primetime
Adam Schiff Show. Politics really IS show business
for ugly people.


17 posted on 01/24/2020 7:12:43 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: knighthawk

And the penalty for pettifogging is ....?

PettiFLOGGING!


18 posted on 01/24/2020 7:38:44 AM PST by RideForever (Epstein was murdered)
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To: knighthawk
pet·ti·fog·ging /ˈpedēˌfôɡiNG/ adjective 1. placing undue emphasis on petty details: "pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society"
19 posted on 01/24/2020 7:44:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: knighthawk

Actually what the Democrats are doing is trying gas-light the entire country.


20 posted on 01/24/2020 7:45:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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