Did you know that the US Senate is coordinating with The White House on the impending impeachment trial of Donald Trump?
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Yes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has openly announced that he and his GOP cronies are working hand in hand with Trump lawyers on how to stage the impeachment trial and reach a swift acquittal.
The way an impeachment trial works is that US Senators are sworn-in as “jurors” to hear pro and con evidence regarding impeachment. So, imagine a jury foreman in any court of law coordinating with the defense attorney and publicly announcing (before a single second of evidence or a trial has been presented) that he/she intends to rule the defendant not guilty.
Crazy, huh? Well, that’s exactly what Senate Republicans are already doing and openly admitting.
“Everything I do during this, I will be coordinating with White House counsel.” – Sen. Mitch McConnell
If the Senate is coordinating with The White House on the Trump impeachment trial, then this will not be a trial at all. It will be a staged circus with the outcome already established in advance — evidence be damned.
“The Constitution prescribes a special oath for the senators when they sit as a trial in impeachment,” Democratic House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Adler said during an interview with ABC’s “This Week.” “They have to pledge to do impartial justice, and here you have the majority leader of the Senate, in effect, the foreman of the jury, saying they’re going to work hand and glove with the defense attorney. Now, that’s a violation of the oath they’re about to take, and it’s a complete subversion of the constitutional scheme.”
He added: “I hope…that they will do their duty and will look into this and will see the uncontroverted facts.
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio also weighed in, telling CNN “Mitch McConnell to say he’s coordinating with the White House to make sure he’s not convicted and removed is — I just — it really is part of this see no evil, hear no evil. That is why I’m so disappointed in my colleagues’ see no evil and hear no evil attitude. That they don’t want to look at anything that might disagree with their world view of Republicanism and this President.”
How is this possible? WHY is this possible?? How can the Republican-led US Senate look themselves in a mirror and know within their soul that they’ve protected democracy when, in fact, all they’ve done is protected Donald Trump?
“Senators are not required like jurors in a criminal trial to be sequestered, not to talk to anyone, not to coordinate. There’s no prohibition,” GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said on Sunday. “The House Democrats are all talking with the Senate Democrats,” he added. “This remains a political process.”
Surprisingly, a new Fox News poll has revealed that 50% of Americans now say they want Donald Trump impeached and removed from office. Yet, the GOP-controlled Senate is coordinating with The White House to blow through a pretend trial as quickly as possible and give Donald Trump yet another free pass to shred the constitution.
Stay tuned…
[Between 1837 and 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet. He is perhaps best known for the remark, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are ALMOST ALWAYS bad men…”, which he made in a letter to {Bishop Creighton}, an Anglican bishop.] – Wikipedia
In this case, I’m not talking about “great men.” These are tiny but very powerful little men behaving in accordance with their true nature, They are absolutely Corrupt and do NOT give a d*mn about the consequences of their words or their actions.
History will long remember their names. Each and every one of them.
VOTE in 2020!
This sounds more like it. By the time this thing gets to the senate it is not going to be a trial it is going to be a circus act. They are going to stage it to make it look fair but we already know the deal.
Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell rejected on Tuesday a proposal from Senate Democrats to subpoena four White House officials to testify during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Sen. Chuck Schumer sent a letter to McConnell on Sunday urging the Republican leader to call to testify four witnesses “with direct knowledge of the admin’s decision to delay security assistance funding to Ukraine,″ including White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security advisor John Bolton.
The other two officials Schumer has requested are Michael Duffey, associate director for national security at the Office of Management and Budget, and Robert Blair, a senior advisor to Mulvaney.
The White House blocked all four from testifying in the House impeachment inquiry.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, excoriating the House Democrats’ pursuit of an impeachment inquiry just a day before the full House is set to vote.
He wildly claimed that “(m)ore due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.” And he accused Pelosi of portraying a “false display of solemnity” during the impeachment process.
“No intelligent person believes what you are saying,” Trump wrote.
Trump and Pelosi have had a history of tense, often personal fights, which have been highlighted by the impeachment inquiry launched this fall. Their most recent White House meeting, in October, was cut short because of the insults they hurled toward each other in the Cabinet Room.
In the 6-page letter Trump sent to Capitol, the President calls Pelosi’s actions “spiteful” and veers into what he sees as personal affronts, saying she’s violated her own oath of office.
“You are offending Americans of faith by continually saying ‘I pray for the President,’ when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense,” Trump writes in the letter. “It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!”