“Why should Democrats be able to call a single witness after denied Republicans the ability to call any witnesses of their own in the House inquiry?”
Photo: Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts swears in Senators as jurors for impeachment trial.
Conservatives Will Not Forgive Senate for Buckling on Impeachment
Breitbart, Janaury 17, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementThe spectacle Thursday of the Senate swearing in Chief Justice John Roberts, and the Senators fraudulently swearing that they would deliver impartial justice, brought home the fact that the impeachment of President Donald Trump is very real.
The House of Representatives disgraced itself with a process that broke with precedent and basic principles of fairness. It impeached the president for legal conduct, on grounds that sow the seeds of future political chaos, if granted legitimacy.
Democrats are proposing not only to reverse the will of the voters in November 2016 — an election whose outcome they have never accepted — but also to “interfere” in the November 2020 election, stamping the president with the scarlet “I.”
To hear Republicans take all of this seriously — debating witnesses and the like — is infuriating. Why should Democrats be able to call a single witness after denied Republicans the ability to call any witnesses of their own in the House inquiry?
Why should Democrats be able to introduce new testimony, and new “factual” claims — from shady characters facing criminal indictment, no less — when Republicans were prevented from calling the original accuser, the “whistleblower”?
The only witness, in fact, who must be called — if witnesses are called at all — is the “whistleblower,” because the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the accused, including the president, the right to confront his or her accuser.
But to allow the Senate trial to go that far would grant the impeachment legitimacy it does not deserve.
The second article seeks to remove the president merely for obeying his constitutional duty to protect the executive by appealing the judiciary. The first article invokes the vague idea of “abuse of power,” without alleging an underlying crime, throwing open the door for any future House majority to impeach a president it does not like. Neither of these ideas should be taken seriously.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) set expectations of a dismissal last month. Conservatives will not forgive Senate Republicans if they buckle and bow to an illegitimate House process or Democrats’ outrageous witness demands.
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Two ways of looking at this.
Dismiss it or have a trial.
I’d like to see Trump vindicated. This was a one sided illegal railroad job.
If the others side can be given and NOT behind closed doors in the basement of the capital, why not? Expose how it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL too! I’d like to see the DEMS and RINOS dragged through the mud and exposed for what they are. The “stupid party” must smarten up! I don’t like corrupt Justice Roberts over seeing this. He gave us Obamcare, same sex marriage and the deciding vote on citizenship not being onthe census when it HAD been there and totally Constitutional. Roberts has a skeleton in his closet … I suspect he is a homosexual and unwilling to come out of the closet. His “hipster” language doesn’t impress me either…
Impeachment Trial Next Steps –
Senate Leader McConnell Establishes Briefing Schedule…
Posted on January 16, 2020 by sundance
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/16/impeachment-trial-next-steps-senate-leader-mcconnell-establishes-briefing-schedule/
Put Biden and Pelosi or or better yet Hunter Biden on the stand and sweat them. They will fall apart worse than Captain Queeg under questioning (Humphrey Bogart in the Caine Mutiny)..
I don’t see how this perpetual navel gazing by the political elite is helping the elected POTUS run the country properly or overcome the many challenges America faces abroad – some of which are very serious.
While I don’t know very much about it, this political mischief stirred into the bubbling pot of malicious intrigue by the frustrated hard left is causing too much time to be wasted in the executive looking down instead of up and outward.
Perhaps those with the power to rein in some people need to remember America wanted this roll of the leader of the free world, and these proceedings are very unhelpful to say the least.
Crush this attempt very soon but sort it out.
Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.
CNN and MSM canonises this pro-jihadi/pro-illegal immigration RINO while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk
Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens
The left wants to STOP Trump from being successful with his agenda. They oppose his agenda. What I believe really frustrats them is Trump getting things done despite them.
Trump gets it.
Why is spam allowed to stay?!!
Pres. Trump is looking upward and outward. God is upward. The rallies, polls, twitter, and all communication with the voters is outward. His accomplishments show what progression really is and our country IS moving forward with his leadership and God’s Grace.
It is time for the Republicans of the USA stand up and fight back against all of the left.
You cannot allow Trump to be Impeached, must call for Civil War as to cannot allow the demoncrats to have control of the Country.
One cannot allow the Demons to have control as that will bend of freedoms and your family life
Without uniforms, who do you shoot in your civil war? Will you shoot me?
Already got large lists
I suggest we go after LIBERAL POLITICIANS FIRST. That should solve the problem as liberals will then go hide back into the holes they came out of, but of course, I am dreaming…………
There WILL be a Civil War and while I do not advocate for one, IT MAY BE NECESSARY to get rid of the anti-Constitutional people who want to FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AMERICA to some 3rd-world hell-hole. SOUND FAMILIAR?
The Democrats own records will come in handy.
The e/GOP “Never Trumper’s” did not “buckle” to the Democrats, they are complicit with them and will vote to impeach!
Same old Republicans, heads down, bodies trembling with fear that they have upset their Democrat master. Classic Stockholm Syndrome. They have been held captive for so long, that they have taken the positions of their captors. They revel in submissiveness even when they are in charge.
Trump may be President, but he is not their president. Their loyalty lies with the bureaucracy that nurtures and controls them.
Even as far back as when Trent Lott was the Senate majority leader in the 90s, he was quoted to say something to the effect that the Republicans are more comfortable in the minority position. How preposterous is that when the people vote to give them leader ship in the squander it time and again?
The demoncraps claim the whistleblower is in mortal danger if its identity is revealed. Wrong! Only enemies of the demoncraps get killed, right Illery? How many of your enemies did you off?
Only their ‘CLEANER’ knows.
RINOS have been screwing over conservatives for so many years that I’ve lost count. This Senate capitulation to the impeachment of Trump is the latest and most sinister instance of how thoroughly the Deep State controls the establishment Republican party. Patriots need to primary Collins in Maine and Murkowski in Alaska.
Drain the DC swamp.
They should have just dismissed this hoax, nothing more.
My bold prediction is that, since acquittal of Trump is a foregone conclusion, his political capital will skyrocket, thereby exposing the ridiculous nature of the commiecrats and making a subsequent attempt at impeachment that much less likely .
That’s why I WANT a trial.
I PRAY SO, DAILY AND OFTEN.
The integrity of the Republicans in Congress and Senate is greatly overestimated.
Unfortunately, the disenchanted Republican voters have no choice.
Without Trump, the Republicans are pretty much nothing.
After all, there is still a hard Republican core that represents a spark of hope.
However the American people must fight much harder to save their country.
THIS IS WHY DEMS ARE SWITCHING PARTIES. They are now INFILTRATING the Republican Party so they can FINISH THEIR SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST AGENDA.
TRUMP WAS THE EXCEPTION.
THESE SWITCHERS NEED TO SIGN A LEGAL DOCUMENT SWEARING UNDER OATH THAT THEY WILL ADHERE AND FOLLOW OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION AND THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE MAJORITY.
Democrats and most if today’s Republicans are the two wings of the same loathsome Socialist carrion-feeder..
Time for a change: Infants’ diapers and politicians should be replaced often…and for the same reason.
The desperation of the Democrats is glaringly pathetic. They will be crushed, first at this sham trial and then at the polls. Trump just keeps on doing his job, doing good, and gaining support and approval.
I will forgive Conservatives WHEN THEY LEAVE OFFICE! Otherwise, I WILL NEVER SUPPORT THEM IN ANYTHING UNLESS THEY SUPPORT TRUMP! I NEVER give to the RNC. I give to individual politicians, NAMELY TRUMP, that actually SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION, IN THE PAST and Presently.
INVESTIGATE EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN’S PAST ACTIONS, NOT WORDS, BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO VOTE FOR THEM.
Any Republican Senator who doesn’t support Trump, is not worthy of Trump’s endorsement for reelection.
In protest I refuse to wear pants during the trail