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Lindsey joins Democrats in approving Trump witnesses, tweets about delays
MarketWatch ^ | Feb 13 | By Victor Reklaitis

Posted on 02/13/2021 8:41:49 AM PST by RandFan

Lindsey Graham joins Democrats in backing witnesses, saying, ‘If you want a delay, it will be a long one with many, many witnesses.’

Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial looked on track to last longer than expected after the Senate voted on Saturday morning in favor of calling witnesses.

Witnesses hadn’t been expected in the proceedings, but the lead House manager, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said on Saturday morning that his team wanted to call Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state after she released a statement late Friday that said Trump on Jan. 6 resisted telling his supporters to stop storming the Capitol.

Those five GOP senators included four known for criticizing Trump — Maine’s Susan Collins, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Utah’s Mitt Romney and Nebraska’s Ben Sasse. South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, also voted for calling witnesses, after tweeting on Saturday morning that, “If you want a delay, it will be a long one with many, many witnesses.”

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To: Gahanna Bob

AOC where were you really on the night of the 6th:-)


121 posted on 02/13/2021 9:35:06 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Ann Archy

He just got reelected by a wide margin for another Six (6) year term.


122 posted on 02/13/2021 9:35:46 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: All


I believe they’ll vote on Individual Witnesses, and the Republicans will be denied.

This is precisely what Schiff did in the house. Not a single Trump witness was allowed.

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123 posted on 02/13/2021 9:36:37 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Dec 18 2019....Pay attention...That statement was for the last impeachment.


124 posted on 02/13/2021 9:37:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: napscoordinator

YUP..drag this crap out for at least two years.


125 posted on 02/13/2021 9:37:43 AM PST by crz
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Linda is a snake and should never be trusted.


126 posted on 02/13/2021 9:37:51 AM PST by abbastanza
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To: RandFan

“Saturday morning that his team wanted to call Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state after she released a statement late Friday that said Trump on Jan. 6 resisted telling his supporters to stop storming the Capitol.”

How is Trump to communicate with his supporters when his Twitter account has been shut down. Call all 70+ million on the phone?


127 posted on 02/13/2021 9:38:09 AM PST by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: Sacajaweau


And it tells us exactly who Graham is!

Which you are trying to hide!!


128 posted on 02/13/2021 9:38:56 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: All


I think Graham is lying and he knows the Dems can easily stop the Republicans from dragging anything out, and the Dems will get their witnesses and then deny Republican witnesses.

He’s framing it dishonestly.

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129 posted on 02/13/2021 9:41:25 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Deo volente
What the hell is wrong with him?! A long delay is EXACTLY what the Dems want, to keep pounding away at Trump’s reputation daily for months.

Do you think that this would sway any of the 73 mil plus who voted Trump? I think not & would push more into his side.

130 posted on 02/13/2021 9:44:23 AM PST by Digger
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To: RandFan


That’s exactly what’s going to happen.

Lindsey Voted for Dems to get every and any witness they like, and Trump will get Zero Witnesses.

He’s doing it - again!

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131 posted on 02/13/2021 9:44:31 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: nathanbedford

“At the end of the day one more institution will have entirely lost whatever confidence the people had left for it”

Anyone here who doesn’t at this point know this is exactly what the Liberals have in mind is totally brain dead.

Geez, wake the f**k up people!!


132 posted on 02/13/2021 9:46:39 AM PST by billyboy15 (')
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To: cymbeline

I don’t care! Graham is a SNAKE....a very clever SNAKE.


133 posted on 02/13/2021 9:47:09 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: proust
"JUST SIT BACK AND TRUST THE GRAHAM"

Que Graham?

134 posted on 02/13/2021 9:47:20 AM PST by Paladin2
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JUST IN - Trump’s defense team has 301 witnesses "so far" that they want to call.

Found here
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/105724926166498419

135 posted on 02/13/2021 9:50:18 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Digger

You’re right. But every Election Day going forward, however many are driven to our side, a few more votes will be “counted” on their side.


136 posted on 02/13/2021 9:50:34 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: AnthonySoprano

If they do this Trump can take it to the SCOTUS and have the whole damn thing deemed FAKE just as it should be!!!


137 posted on 02/13/2021 9:50:42 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: RandFan

It’s deja vu all over again, like Kavanaugh’s confirmation.


138 posted on 02/13/2021 9:53:27 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Real Cynic No More
Graham is not an idiot he may be an ass but he is not stupid. When the Senators realize that it will not be one witness to a phone call but a lot of witnesses, and dispositions will stretch into weeks and they may not be able to conduct a lot of business, the vote may change. Murkowski, Romney and the others impulsively vote against Trump without thinking it through. They have time to digest that if the Trump managers ask for 10 witnesses this will drag on until March. Trump will never be deposed he is the accused and does not have to testify against himself.
139 posted on 02/13/2021 9:54:20 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: azsportsterman

“The Trump team can call each and every person that attended or listened to the 6 July speech.”

Unfortunately, that is not true. They have the votes to deny Trump any witnesses. That’s where this is headed now that Dems control the Senate: a Senate version of the one-sided House kangaroo court we already saw.

In the House, the Trump Lawyers were allowed zero due process - and now the Senate will do the same...

President Trump may not be convicted of the articles of impeachment, but that is not what they are after. This is a show trial to convince the MAGA movement that Trump was evil after all - that he had us all brainwashed.

This is a process of deprogramming the cult of Trump - they will stretch it out over weeks until polls show that we are “convinced”.

I remember when they did that to the extremely popular Richard Nixon, who had just been re-elected in the second biggest landslide in modern history.

Polls showed Nixon’s popularity holding strong - none of his supporters believed anything he did justified impeaching him... then after weeks and weeks of NYT headlines like “NIXON LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” ... things began to change..

I remember my own mother, a staunch Nixon supporter, one day seeing that headline and tearfully saying “so it’s true - he lied to me.” I was only 21 and it was only 1974, but I already knew there was something very wrong with “the news”. I tried to pull my mother back from the breach.

But my mother just had too much trust in Walter Cronkite, etc.. she couldn’t believe that many newspapers and that many anchors could be wrong, or would conspire for political purposes. She was extremely smart, but she was also a humble woman who grew up respecting her parents, her teachers, the ministers at our church, and other “authority” figures - including people like Walter Cronkite. If someone like him was convinced, I guess she figured it must be she who was wrong.

There are still tons of people like my late mother, who are just too humble to think they could be right and all those voices wrong. That’s how propaganda works. It wears us down. It takes advantage of our humility, our decency and our respect for authority. It turns our own good character against us.

These disgusting liars won’t quit until Trump’s good name and his immense popularity has been completely destroyed.


140 posted on 02/13/2021 9:54:30 AM PST by enumerated
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