Another big Impeachment Trial Day.
Looks like it will end tomorrow with the Republicans voting to deny ANY witness testimony or documents in this trial, perhaps a first in the history of US jurisprudence. I yield to EB on that one. The Republican are frightened by the spectacle of John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, and/or Rudy Giuliani actually testifying before Congress under oath because they would give eyewitness accounts of Trumps attempted extortion of Ukraine's president. And that would embarrass them in perpetuity (see Nixon videotapes "I am not a crook"; "it's not a crime if the President does it!").
And let's not forget that unlike Clinton, Trump doesn't have the stones to testify under oath before Congress. What kind of leader is too chicken to stand up and swear before God that he didn't do it?
Because the Democrats needed 4 votes from Republicans tomorrow to have a shot at a tie vote to get witness testimony in the trial, they were hoping Senator Lamar Alexander would put country before party (like the Republican senators did in the Nixon scandal) because he is not seeking re-election this fall. But this evening Alexander said he's voting against having witnesses testify because it has already been convincingly PROVEN that Trump is guilty of the above, although he uses softer terminology; he states the evidence is so convincing that he doesn't need any witnesses whatsoever; and he falls back to the only shameful position left the Republicans: he's guilty, but it's not that big a deal that Trump should be removed.
So we should expect that Trump will continue to use the power of the POTUS to extort other foreign leaders to help him rig the election again this November (Russia,China are you listening?). All our enemies prefer Trump because his foreign policy is corrupt, childish, and harms our nation's future (again see Fareed Zakaria's show on CNN).
Alan Dershowitz just brought the above-mentioned argument. This guy is not paid for nothing:clap2:
Trump's lawyers just repeat his lies. It's a matter of record that Hunter Biden did nothing illegal at Burisma; that Joe Biden got Ukraine's Chief Prosecutor fired because that was official US policy, along with the policies of the European Union, among others, because he was corrupt; and the Prosecutor was not actively investigating Burisma at the time of his firing, and that fact actually contributed to his dismissal. These are facts, and you seem intelligent enough to know them already, yet you keep repeating the lies just like Fox News, Trump and his allies. If you really believe this crap, then please do some research from nonpartisan websites (that is not Breitbart lol)
Here are some good video highlights of oral arguments by Dershowitz, Schiff, Philbin and Jeffries:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/impeachment-analysis-republican-reaction/index.html
Thank you for this link, EB
Make no mistake...this entire sh@t-show will be nothing but positive for Trump and almost guarantees a second term..
Trump comes away with the power of an absolute monarch, sadly. And his team used the trial to slander Joe Biden with their lies. (yes, the truth does matter)
But the entire country has seen his corruption and dishonesty.
Trump's White House is going to refuse to give Bolton's book security clearance for publishing, until AFTER the election (more abuse of power). But Bolton will likely just dish on television. And Farnas will have more video documentation of Trump's guilt in the Ukraine scandal, so hopefully that will stay in the news during election season.
I think the race is a toss up at this point.
Fradi Nixon was not impeached. He resigned before being impeach. Remember the Frost/Nixon interview?
"I'm saying when the president does it, that means it's not illegal," Nixon said during the interview, cementing his ignominy.
How did we forget that??? Trump surely did not.
Wow, you know US history well, Jalimon!
Trump cannot decriminalize prostitution his right based supporter are all about guns and against women and of course against abortion.
Perhaps, but Trump can decriminalize the President fucking prostitutes if he thinks it will help him get re-elected, because that is in the best interest of the country. Maybe Trump will visit Montreal; perhaps his supporters on Merb can say if he likes spinners?
(Trump) is nefarious and crooked to the bone like all the rest of them in my opinion, if not more so ... he always lied flat out , but unlike the polished Washington insiders he never really cared what anyone thought
Trump actually cares a lot about what other people think of him. That's why he always praises himself and lies about it. "My inauguration crowd was much bigger than Obama's". I know more about Syria than my generals do." "I have a higher IQ than Obama, George Will, Karl Rove, George W Bush." "I am a very stable genius." I have a very, very, large brain.". He claims he finished at the top of his class at Wharton Business School, but his attorney Michael Cohen sent letter to his alma maters, threatening legal action if any of Trump's own academic records were made public.
This dude Really Cares What People Think of Him, to the point of more pathologic lying.
Hey, No Church In The Wild; thanks for the backhanded compliment lol
Sorry, had to put Fradi and CBB on the IL, along with BS. I'm here to enjoy the interactions on merb, and I just wasn't feeling the love lol
