Trump impeachment: Half-empty spectator gallery puzzles senators

NY Post ^ | Jan. 24, 2020

[deplorableindc]

The Senate spectator gallery was at least half-empty throughout the first week of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and senators serving as the jury in the marathon sessions are taking notice — some stunned that there aren’t more people watching history unfold, while others understand the public avoiding the repetitive proceedings.

“I’m really surprised at that because this is kind of historic and I would think this would be an opportunity for people to get in there regardless of whose side you are on,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told The Post Friday.

Journalists aren’t allowed to bring cellphones or cameras into the gallery, so the noticeably small audience is known directly only to people able to access the chamber.

[wizwor]

How about that! Congress taking a knee gets the same reaction as the NFL taking a knee.

[a little elbow grease]

The theater of the absurd is an acquired taste.

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LOL

[trebb]

I expect more to be watching when the President’s team has the floor.
Our side was too bored with the Schiff Excruciating Side Show and their side already knows that the President will stay and probably have another 4 years...

[a little elbow grease]

Beautiful!

[AndyJackson]

They call it "performance art" but that is one of the worst lies I have heard yet. I've seen better acting in kindergarden plays. No one could stand another minute of the collective voices of Shiffty, Wadler, Jeffries and the rest.

The only thing historic about it is that it is a historic bore.

[AndyJackson]

I would think this would be an opportunity for people to get in there regardless of whose side you are on,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)\

I have to add that I didn't realize that Inhofe was such a clueless egomaniac. What an opportunity to sit and watch a bunch of Senators dozing off for days because they are bored to death and too stupid to end the farce that they allowed to get going in the first place.

[bert]

Who wants to watch a black woman who can’t read out loud? Who wants to watch managers that read the same stuff over and over?

To use current language, the proceedings are in fact a fake impeachment

The sum total of the Democrat House members are guilty of a conspiracy to overthrow the existing government. All and their staffs should be rounded up, stood against a wall, and shot.

[Candor7]

Who would want to be in that Senate gallery, continually restraining ones self from grabbing the nearest object to throw at the pencil neck Schiff.

[glorgau]

The average Joe knows this entire proceeding is an absolute crock and have absolutely know interest in wasting their time watching it.

Yeah, I rather watch something more meaningful over the long span of time in our history as a nation - like a WNBA game.