Airforceone wrote:
How can Republicans justify an impeachment trial and have no witnesses that were personally involved with the Scandel and absolutely refuse to release any documents. Johnson’s trial had 41 witnesses and Clinton had 3 the democrats during the Clinton trial put no restrictions on witnesses the Republicans only choose to call 3. So how can Trump supporters justify this trial.
Trump blocked all witnesses within his administration not to cooperate with the house and not release any documents.
Now remember Trump supporters your liar in chief told his base everything he did was perfect so if it was perfect release the documents and let your staff testify.
Only a Trump r****t supporters will except this BS.
How can Republicans justify an impeachment trial a... (
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I would
like to say that maybe it's also the Trump supporters that just got sucked into all that partisan rhetoric the media keep pumping out, but that excuse is starting to get thin. I agree with you, things are getting pretty dang obvious.
With what this trial is revealing, namely the Republican refusal to allow any more information of any kind into the chamber, it's becoming quite obvious that they are attempting to proceed directly to an acquittal with minimum consideration for the charges. I believe the word for this is negligence.
EVEN - IF - IT - IS - a witch hunt - it should NOT matter! The Senate should respect the concerns of the House, proceed with a full trial and consider all the information available, if for no other reason than the fact that the House IS prosecuting, which makes it the Senate's constitutional duty to treat it seriously.
And EVEN - IF - Trump is innocent of the charges, I have the utmost confidence that he and the Republicans can assemble a defense that can invalidate any false claims against him.
So, if a president has to rely on a senate controlled by his party to block all information out of an impeachment trial - something is wrong. And 'though we can only guess at what the Republicans are covering up, or if it's more a matter of just hurrying to the acquittal, there is still that little matter of constitutional negligence that is being proven to us right before our eyes.
That being said, I am glad for the fast track... We all knew what McConnell's Senate was going to do, we just needed them to actually do it so we can charge them later. (more on that in a minute). So the way I see it, the sooner they wrap up, the sooner we can move on. Our best opportunity to kick Trump out has always been the 2020 e******n anyway.
Now, about that charging of McConnell's Senate. What a lot of people aren't noticing is that neglect is an impeachable offense that applies very much to McConnell and the Republicans for as I say, "not taking the impeachment seriously" AND for shirking their constitutional duty to weigh the evidence.
So, expect to hear some chatter in the coming months about impeaching and removing multiple members of Senate. It may be enough to give all of Congress to the Democrats so they can start passing laws to stump the expansion of conservative power in the courts. ;)