Posted on 01/26/2020 4:32:09 AM PST by Cboldt
Order of Procedure
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. Chief Justice, colleagues, we should expect 2 to 3 hours of session today. We will take a quick break if needed.
The CHIEF JUSTICE. Pursuant to the provisions of S. Res. 483, the counsel for the President have 24 hours to make the presentation of their case.
The Senate will now hear you.
The Presiding Officer recognizes Mr. Cipollone to begin the presentation of the case for the President.
Opening Statement
Mr. Counsel CIPOLLONE. Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, Leader McConnell, Democratic Leader Schumer, thank you for your time and thank you for your attention. I want to start out, just very briefly, giving you a short plan for today. We are going to be very respectful of your time. As Leader McConnell said, we anticipate going about 2 to 3 hours at most and to be out of here by 1 at the latest.
We are going to focus today on two points. You heard the House managers speak for nearly 24 hours over 3 days. We don't anticipate using that much time. We don't believe that they have come anywhere close to meeting their burden for what they are asking you to do. In fact, we believe that, when you hear the facts--and that is what we intend to cover today, the facts--you will find that the President did absolutely nothing wrong. What we intend to do today--and we will have more presentations in greater detail on Monday, but what we intend to do today--is go through their record that they established in the House, and we intend to show you some of the evidence that they adduced in the House that they decided, over their 3 days and 24 hours, that they didn't have enough time or made a decision not to show you.
And every time you see one of these pieces of evidence, ask yourself: Why didn't I see that in the first 3 days? They had it. It came out of their process. Why didn't they show that to the Senate? I think that is an important question because, as House managers, really, their goal should be to give you all of the facts, because they are asking you to do something very, very consequential and, I would submit to you--to use a word that Mr. Schiff used a lot--very, very dangerous.
That is the second point that I would ask you to keep in mind today. They are asking you not only to overturn the results of the last election, but as I have said before, they are asking you to remove President Trump from the ballot in an election that is occurring in approximately 9 months. They are asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country, on your own initiative--take that decision away from the American people. And I don't think they spent 1 minute of their 24 hours talking to you about the consequences of that for our country--not 1 minute. They didn't tell you what that would mean for our country--today, this year, and forever into our future.
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We all know the press will not honestly report what was said.
Watched 45 minutes of my local news this morning, not a single word about impeachment. Prior to yesterday impeachment was story #1. I heard an ABC radio news report yesterday that went something like this, “president’s lawyers dispute, then 15 seconds of Schiffty BS”. The stooges are regular whirling dervishes of dem spin, if they mention it at all.
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The press will cover the DEM demands as much as the contents of the president’s counsel’s presentation. On the contents, they will be mischaracterized (e.g., president’s team did not address any facts), “debunked” and criticized.
We need witnesses! Then questions to senators about whether they are for or against witnesses, then the implication that if they are not for witnesses, then they are covering up wrongdoing. Back to you in the studio.
The fraction of the population that sees the press as fair or non-partisan is dwindling. I watch to learn what the DEM party talking points and lame arguments are.
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