As the White House prepares its defense for an all-but impending Senate impeachment trial, President Trump goaded Democrats on Thursday morning to impeach him “fast.”
Well then lets drag it out.
In other words, “Mitch, my bitch, has whipped the vote, and they don’t have enough to convict me.”
Now he’s talking witnesses? The ones he directed to ignore House subpoenas? As opposed to the ones who testified who he declined to examine despite express invitations to have his lawyer do so - not to mention his acolytes in the House who engaged in as good an examination as they could.
I wonder just what Roberts will stand for as he presides over the Senate trial. I hope he does not cede complete authority to McConnell. And I actually wonder how much of a circus McConnell wants the Sentate trial to become. This could get really interesting if they start fighting over how much of an unscripted reality trial this all becomes.
Terrible headline. He’s not convinced he’ll get, nor does he want, a fair trial. He’s convinced that enough R Senators will be “his Roy Cohn.”
Don’t you just love how he tips his hand? If this were a poker game …
EXACTLY… drag this out until we get Bolton, Cipollino, Pompeo, and McGahn in front of the public
Actually you don’t control the process, genius. You’re talking like some sovereign citizen loon yapping in handcuffs about how the court has no jurisdiction over him because the flag has a fringe on it yadda yadda yadda. Just sit down and shut up.
Convinced He’ll Get A Fair Trial In The Senate
Nonsense.
“…if they were to elect against our better advice [and] send over impeachment to the Senate, that we need witnesses as part of our trial…”
I call bullshit. Sure, let’s have you call witnesses. Bolton, Mulvaney, Giuliani, Pompeo, Michael Duffey, Parnas, Fruman, Hannity, Erik Prince, Kash Patel, McGahn, Nunes. Put your money where your mouth is. LET’S HAVE AT IT.
And, telling us the Dems had a really bad day yesterday, BTW, criminal in chief, how were your couple days in London? I hear it didn’t go so well and heads of state were laughing at you. Oh, well, you’re not going to get over any of this, you are doomed.
Who writes these headlines?? Jesus H. Christ!
Weren’t all the Republicans and their big witness complaining about the haste of the whole thing in yesterday’s hearing?
And this is the argument that needs to be stated every single day in the face of the accusation that this whole process isn’t fair, hearsay evidence isn’t admissible and this is a kangaroo court:
If hearsay evidence isn’t valid in your mind, then put the people who WERE in on the conversations and activities on the witness stand under oath and let them tell their stories. That won’t be hearsay evidence, now, will it? You get to question them the same way the Dems do (at least, you can if you don’t filibuster your five minutes away).
The more the process is stonewalled, the more guilty you look, whether you want to admit it or not.
Put the observers on the witness stand. That will settle all of it.
Does he realize an impeachment trial is about what he did, not about whether the Democrats are meanies?
The Senate trial will focus on Dems being cray-cray meanies.
Clean the swamp?!?
FFS, Dude, you ARE the swamp.
I’m quite sure they’ll stay out of bounds. He’s calling for the prosecutors to be put on the stand so that they can be painted as dirty cops by his enablers in the Senate.
I picked up more of yesterday’s legal discussion and had a thought.
If Trump is proven to have committed bribery — he has, he confessed — then the Senate has to remove him from office. Such a crime isn’t the same as debating what to do with a drunk or a guy who assaults women in the Oval Office. Bribery is explicitly stated in the Constitution.
For the Senate to excuse Trump is tantamount to the Senate modifying the Constitution without following the amending process.
Impeachment only leads to removal (or a finding of innocence). The Senate process exists to check a corrupt House. Not to redefine the Constitution unilaterally.
No one is above the law. Not even the Senate.
