Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the Senate impeachment trial one-on-one.
Surprise surprise -Mitch is just getting his ducks in a row.
Putin couldn’t attend because of a scheduling conflict…
He was Skyped in.
Ducks – is that a typo? 
Always nice when the foreman of the jury meets with the defendant to arrange the trial. Even better when the jury foreman is also the court coordinator and sets the trial rules.
It’s like the old John Gotti and other mob cases, but they don’t bother to hide the jury fixing.
" However, McConnell has flatly admitted that he is coordinating with White House lawyers on impeachment strategy."
Lets see how hard the “MEDIA” pushes this story,now that congress is back in session.
From The Urban Dictionary.
" hoax
1 Transtive/Verb
to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous.
2: Noun
1 : an act intended to trick or dupe : IMPOSTURE
2 : something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication
by Bernie March 10, 2005"
Talk about a rigged trial. Just the kind of thing Mr. Trump has always wanted. We can only hope that Senator McConnel’s defeat this November is resounding and humiliating. His legacy will always be one of expedience and sycophancy. That, along with Mr. Trump’s defeat, will only be a start. There are many Republicans who must share in this ignominy.
They’ll keep on criming until someone stops 'em.
" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday invoked the nation’s birth in defending her decision to delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate. “Our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they suspected that there could be a rogue president,” she said. “I don’t think they suspected that we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the Senate at the same time.”
Nice MoscowMitch is being so open about cavorting with the impeached criminal. Can anyone say optics?
Some Dem arguments, well McConnel has it rigged and there is no way in stopping him so why bother trying to get a actual trial and just send them over…
If this is just going to be a short rigged affair then why bother sending them over, if the end result is the same where no real trial is going to happen might as well not give him his rigged one.
The Democrats should move to have McConnell and others who have acted similarly disqualified. It would be fascinating to see how Roberts would respond. The entire approach by Moscow Mitch and Co. is completely contrary to the constitution.
There was a Lessig column in the Post yesterday about this. Apparently there was a lot of debate during the Jackson impeachment about taking false oaths. Not sure how we could focus on this as long as the Republicans vote together — but accepting McConnell’s collusion as a fair accompli also sounds like poor strategy.
Well, here we are, when it’s necessary for GOP politicians to avoid even the appearance of propriety.
Moscow Mitch gets his marching orders from Oleg Deripaska these days, freeing Putin up to jail political opponents and murder journalists.
According to Rule XXV of the Senate Rules in Impeachment Trials, all senators must make the following oath: “I solemnly swear [or affirm, as the case may be] that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of [the person being impeached], now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: So help me God.”
Doesn’t say anything about not coordinating before the trial. And I guess the definition of the term “impartial justice” is subject to some disagreement.
Fuck you, Moscow Mitch.
That’s a quote for the ages. Wonder just how many books about this period in time will be repeating it.
Good on you, Nancy “Don’t you mess with me” Pelosi!
And then he goes to beg Pelosi for the articles
“You can’t impeach a president who cures cancer!!!”