Posted on 02/08/2020 3:24:07 PM PST by jazusamo
Source: CNN/Screenshot
The defeated House impeachment managers held a group therapy session on CNN to vent their frustrations about the Senate finding the president not guilty on the two articles of impeachment against him. The managers shouldn't feel too bad though. Nothingburgers are extremely difficult to prove.
All the managers seemed to be in agreement that the president was "not exonerated" by the Senate. In the president's defense, it's hard to exonerate someone of a crime when there was never any specific crime being alleged. The managers also lamented the fact that additional evidence and witnesses but not the Bidens or any requested by Republicans were not called forward by the Senate.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said House Democrats had debated the idea of impeaching the president in the first place, knowing in advance that the Republican majority would not easily be swooned to remove their own president from office.
"But we had to do it," Nadler explained to CNN's Anderson Cooper, "because we had to set markers. You had to say, 'you can't normalize this conduct. This kind of thing this president has done can't be done by him or by future presidents. You had to vindicate the Constitution.'"
Democrats had to send the message to the president: the Biden family is off-limits.
"I actually thought it was possible to convict," Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA ) admitted, "because our evidence was so strong and the activity engaged in was so wrong."
The group therapy session did reveal that Democrats suffer from acute cognitive dissonance, at the same time believing their case was overwhelming but also lacking much needed evidence and witnesses.
"Did this backfire though?" asked CNN's Anderson Cooper. "A Gallup poll taken before the final vote showed a 49 percent approval rating. Among independents, he was up five points. I mean, did the impeachment backfire on the Democrats?"
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) struggled to answer Cooper's question, dismissing Trump's acquittal as "fake news" since, in her eyes, the Senate trial was "unfair."
Demings continued, "and I think back to Robert Mueller's words when he said if he could exonerate the president he would, but he could not exonerate the president."
Therein lies the Democrats' problem. The bedrock principle of our justice system is that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. If Trump is not guilty, he is therefore presumed innocent. And, as Democrats like to point out, the president is no different under the law than the rest of us.
The House Managers Don't Think Trump Has Been Acquitted
Would have been a good opportunity to serve them all subpoenas.
Or arrest them outright.
I can’t even laugh this is so sad and pathetic. The economy is soaring. America is strong, respected, powerful militarily. At home and abroad we are thriving and these clowns think they’re here to teach us lessons. Just begone lib scum
phony excuses to be used on Sunday news by Dems....
If the pre-exhibition season tryouts for Canadian curling were not going to be shown all day I might have watched the Dems.
Or maybe not. As in never.
Good one. Much needed.
Also, my first impression of the gallery of fools in two rows was: So that’s how the original Mickey Mouse Club stars look today.
Photo caption:
Woman in Red: “So tell me honestly, are you really Spartacus?”
Jerry Nadler about other woman in green jacket on right: “Finally! Someone who envies me my clothes size. I feel pretty.”
The Vile Botoxian hand-picked this laughable group of incompetent drama queens. When she first introduced these misfit dopes, she bragged they were the best of the best legal minds.
I believe the PATHETIC LOSER House managers really are the House Rat best of the bestbecause the talent pool in the Rat caucus is slim to none.
PDJTs brilliant team of REAL attorneys revealed the incompetence, hatred, and buffoonery of Schitt, Lard@ss et al.
Thus, the weak and the stupid are eliminated in a heartless yet necessary natural selection process. LMAO!
Well said, Bump!
Trump 2020. Make liberals cry again.
Remember - the winning Republicans were not invited on to ANY of the Sunday morning talk shows this weekend.
The acquittal Narrative has to be carefully shaped - just like the Iowa caucus Narrative was carefully shaped to slide Buttgiggity in as "the winner" over the true winner Bernie.
Did Jason Crow (back right) the ex veteran turned anti 2A, oath denier, POS, say anything?
There’s a tear in my beer and I’m crying for the fear of loosing my seat in the House
It was all Jerry's fault for storming the mic....JERRY JERRY JERRY.
Next stop, Springer show
Re the group photo: The Rat in the back row on the far right was the MENSA candidate who quoted from Harry Potter in his closing argument.
Can’t wait for Trump’s New Hampshire rally on Monday.
The Seven Dwarfs.
They really look smug.
These POS are very lucky they get to still breathe air after what they did and still are doing.
.....But my favorite closing argument by far was Adam Schittforbrains epic meltdown. I thought I had already seen him at his most maniacally obsessive and laughably melodramaticI was wrong.
Adams closing hysterical Schittshow was one for the ages as he ranted the same words over and over again: corrupt, dangerous, Russia, Trump could sell Alaska to Putin, Trump could let Jared Kushner run the military, Russia, cheater, corrupt AG Barr, presidents defense team is corrupt, cover-up, GOP senators are corrupt, Russia, collusion, cover-up, cheater, corrupt! (rinse and repeat for 25 minutes, shrieking louder with each repetition)
I havent laughed so hard in a long time.
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