Posted on 01/25/2020 6:13:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans said lead impeachment prosecutor Adam Schiff insulted them during the trial by repeating an anonymously sourced report that the White House had threatened to punish Republicans who voted against President Donald Trump.
Schiff, who delivered closing arguments for the prosecution, was holding Republican senators rapt as he called for removing Trump from office for abusing his power and obstructing Congress. Doing anything else, he argued, would be to let the president bully Senate Republicans into ignoring his pressure on Ukraine for political help.
“CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that key senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’ I don’t know if that’s true,” Schiff said.
After that remark, the generally respectful mood in the Senate immediately changed. Republicans across their side of the chamber groaned, gasped and said, “That’s not true.” One of those key moderate Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, looked directly at Schiff, shook her head and said, “Not true.”
“Not only have I never heard the ‘head on the pike’ line,” Collins said in a statement, “but also I know of no Republican senator who has been threatened in any way by anyone in the administration.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what impact, if any, Schiff’s comment would have on upcoming votes on witnesses and the ultimate question of whether Trump should be removed from office.
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The Wuhan virus or Adam Schiff, which is worse?
Now THAT head would look good on a pike...........
Postmodernists don’t believe in objective truth. Subjectivist morality says that something can be true for me even if it is not true for you.
Napoleon’s maxim: Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.
We may need to give Shifty the next 24 hours too then vote. He is doing such an excellent job for President Trump.
hey, if abortion is healthcare, then a head on a pike is landscaping
Mere parody.
I disagree with Schiff on everything but his head on a pike comment is rather tame when it comes to our political class.
What a moron, rush is right this guy actually needs mental treatment a lot of mental treatment
Didn’t we all know that the Democrats’ excessive hatred would eventually trip them up?
Would lead them to do and say stupid things? Now with their attempted intimidation of the Senators, they’ve actually alienated those whose support they need ... way to go bozos
(Actually, the first sign it was all over for the Dems was last Tuesday, when the Republicans held firm and rejected 11 straight Democrat amendments)
Wouldn’t it be great if the session today started off with the first speaker saying “Based on the legally childish opening statements of the last few days, the defense rests” . . .
Voting to begin Monday.
Tin foil hat time. The Democrats know that they are losing on the impeachment so they decide to go for broke. Make one outlandish claim after another so that any Republican Senator that might have voted to remove the President will be forced to instead defend the Senate (and themselves by voting to acquit).
Then they will claim COVER UP!
For years the Democrats have been skillful players in the GAME OF POLITICS but since President Trump it as if they have forgotten everything they knew about being sneakig and hiding their true agenda.
Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler are the face of DC democrats - and Bernie Sanders will likely be their 2020 presidential nominee.
The democrat party has imploded before our eyes.
Thank you Mr. President.
bkmk more pike
Yeah, there are people who really believe there is ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth’.
This is more projecting by the democrats. They get these kind of threats from thier leadership so they figure everybody does it.
Ha ... I like your way of thinking.
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