Posted on 01/31/2020 8:27:37 AM PST by Red Badger
Veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein blasted Senate Republicans on the eve of their vote to determine whether or not witnesses will be allowed in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
"The Senate of the United States, through the Republican leadership and membership, has now joined hands with a tyrant," said Bernstein. "We now have a precedent that's been set, especially if we're going to follow this new catechism, this cult of Trump that professor Dershowitz has advanced, this catechism that he cannot abuse his power. So, totally different situation than what happened in Watergate, because in Watergate the real heroes were Republicans who stopped tyranny."
Republicans and Democrats fiercely clashed over the prospect of new witnesses in the Senate trial. Sens. Susan Collins and Mitt Romney announced they will vote in favor of witnesses while Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander said he would vote against allowing new witnesses to address the body.
That leaves Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski as the key remaining Republican left to decide a crucial step for Democrats in the trial. If Murkowski sides with Democrats to allow witnesses, her vote would likely push the final count to an even 50-50 tie. Analysts suggest this hypothetical situation would allow Republicans to claim victory and block witnesses from appearing.
Bernstein, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal that ended President Richard Nixon's term in the Oval Office, has called Trump's impeachment trial a "cover-up" and said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has "impeded facts from the beginning."
It’s to keep their base riled up and fermenting....................
There will be a dirt road somewhere named after him.
Tyrant?
You mean like illegally using the government, including Knowingly lying to Federal Judges, to spy on a political opponent?
Knwingly writing illegal Executive Orders?
Illegally assassinating a US Citizen in a drone strike without due process of law?
Using the IRS, and other Government Agencies, to persecute opposition political movement?
Using the Govt legal arm to knowing spy on, and intimate, Journalists?
Oh but that right that was OBAMA not Trump.
Pure hysteric hypocritical drivel from the usual Fake News scum.
The worst nightmare of Elite Democrat Fascists approaches:
The VOTERS will decide Trump’s fate.
Perfect!
So bitter when things don’t go his way. The two words that seem to be the most applicable to Carl Bernstein right now (even though they came about in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election) are Sore Loserman!!!
Howard was correct!
Watergate = 2nd biggest nothingburger after this FAKE impeachment/coup d’état against President Trump.
Paddy Chayefsky was a visionary.
He was amazingly incurious about subsequent events.
Thanks Red Badger. There is but one Cult of Trump -- it's called the Democratic Party.
Partisan Media Shills update.
So much to investigate Carl and you are wasting your time with this sham of an impeachment.
Carl, you are wanted on the red phone, it’s Vladimer.
Had he done the same thing on the Clintons and Obama that he did on Nixon he would be an honest journalist.
Now he’s just a Democrat tool, hack and shill....................
Funny that a movie 45 years-old is even more relevant today.
d":^)
Bernstein seems to be a captive in a cult of projection.
I've never viewed that movie. I'll have to check it out.
I was somewhat put off by the adds, and the idea it might not have been done right, if you know what I mean. A Leftist ploy...
d":^)
Sad and frightening, more like it. It’s probably now worthy of being in the top 10 American films ever made.
Peter Finch and Chayefsky both deserved every inch of their Oscars.
Bernstein is a hack in my opinion. Now he reverts to name calling, typical tool of the Democrat playbook.
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