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Murkowski comes out against impeachment witnesses, putting Trump on path to acquittal
By Judson Berger | Fox News
President Trump slams impeachment ‘hoax’
Peter Doocy catches up with President Trump ahead of his rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
Story continues below advertisementRepublican Sen. Lisa Murkowski came out Friday against calling witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, all but assuring the Senate will move to wrap up proceedings with a likely acquittal in a matter of days, if not hours.
“Given the partisan nature of this impeachment from the very beginning and throughout, I have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the Senate. I don’t believe the continuation of this process will change anything. It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed,” said Murkowski, R-Alaska, a key moderate senator who has been closely watched on the witness question.
DEMS SIGNAL THEY WON’T ACCEPT TRUMP ACQUITTAL
The announcement came after Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who also had been on the fence on the issue, announced late Thursday that he would not support additional witnesses in Trump’s “shallow, hurried and wholly partisan” trial.
Right now, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah are the only GOP senators to signal support for witnesses. Presuming Democrats vote as a bloc and no other Republicans defect, this would leave the pro-witness side with just 49 votes.
SEN. ALEXANDER AGAINST IMPEACHMENT WITNESSES
The Senate is expected to vote on the witness question later Friday. From there, proceedings could drag on through Friday night and into the weekend – and possibly beyond – but it takes a two-thirds supermajority to convict a president.
Few senators have publicly budged from party lines during the course of the trial, leaving impeachment managers far short of the votes needed to convict barring some extraordinary turn.
GOP Senator Murkowski ‘disturbed’ by McConnell impeachment approachVideoMurkowski, after keeping her views close to the vest, issued her statement just as what could be the final day of proceedings got underway. In it, she said she “carefully considered” the question of allowing witnesses and documents in the trial, “but ultimately decided that I will vote against considering motions to subpoena.”
She even seemed to take a swipe at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for a day earlier applying not-so-subtle pressure on Chief Justice John Roberts to side with those seeking witnesses. On the floor Thursday, Warren gave Roberts a question that asked if refusing to allow witnesses would “contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?”
Murkowski said in her statement: “It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice. I will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded this institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another.”
The statement also could have been a reference to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., clashing with Roberts over the last two days for the latter’s refusal to read aloud his question naming the alleged Ukraine whistleblower.
“We are sadly at a low point of division in this country,” Murkowski said.
Trump is accused of withholding aid to Ukraine as leverage to extract an investigation led by that country into Democrats including 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his family. He denies it, but former national security adviser John Bolton reportedly has alleged, in his forthcoming book, that the president indeed linked the aid and the investigations.
This prompted a renewed scramble by Democrats to muster the votes to demand witness testimony, from Bolton and others. The New York Times reported Friday that Bolton also claims Trump told him to help with his Ukraine pressure campaign as early as May.
Trump denied the claim.
As it became clear that votes were lining up to block witnesses, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., alleged earlier Friday that Republicans were on the verge of participating in the “greatest cover-up since Watergate.”
“The president’s acquittal will be meaningless because it will be the result of a sham trial,” he declared.
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28 Comments
4 years ago
Demokkkrats will not accept anything less than the electric chair for Orange Man Bad …
what they will accept should not be a factor.
No witnesses and no further nonsense …
unless the Senate plans to prosecute Biden, et al, for their crimes.
Otherwise it’s just bending over backwards for the Left-tards.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
DEMS do plan on trying to impeach Trump again.
They have admitted that. It’s a suicide mission but heck, maybe we can take the House back. Hopefully some decent GOP people can replace them. That’s a problem, you vote out a DEM and you get a GOPe who is really a closet DEM or a Never Trumper like Mitt.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
😉 … yes, 5 gold stars to the first kid that guesses what the next fake scandal will be …
Trump-China collusion?
Trump-Iran collusion?
Trump-Mexico collusion?
etc. about 196 times … for the next five years …
you and yours have a wonderful weekend felix!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Trump’s crime: collusion with thee American people to win the election!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
NOW the Dems are talking about censuring Trump in the House instead. But that won’t work either. The Senate can have the same vote, and it will fail in the Senate. Thus, one will effectively cancel out the other.
https://www.pacificpundit.com/2020/01/30/its-over-democrats-now-talking-about-censuring-trump/
Senator Joe McCarthy was censured, but was later praised by legislators. And the Winona decrypts eventually proved that McCarthy was right about every communist whom he had accused.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
However, show me ONE history text, issued/approved for public schools, that will reference McCarthy being right.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
If McCarthy was right, then Adam Schiff is even far worse than we thought. Because Schiff has been proven wrong again and again.
Schiff also has the journalists as accomplices to his “left-wing McCarthyism”, if you will.
Then you have the Kavanuagh witch-hunts.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
I suspect if the Democrats lose the next election, Adam Schiff will be blamed.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
We’re in the middle of a Civil War. Romney needs to come to his senses; even at the last moment (McCain-style but in reverse).
If he did that, and it helped end this coup; then his stock would go up more. someone needs to tell him. this is war.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
Mitt won’t. His hatred towards Trump is personal. He can’t imagine someone like Trump coming out of no where, never held political office, and having a record win. He is envious as hell and sees himself as so much better than Trump. The only reason he ran for the senate position was to be the “standard bearer” for the swamp to get back to how it used to be with globalists and the deep state establishment.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
Actually we are in a struggle for our very survival as a nation with China, which is making Herculean efforts to rule the world through financial, military, and even through outright thievery of intellectual property, corporate and government secrets and financial espionage.
If they undercut consumer pricing, they can drive competitors out of business.
Trump is the first President who has actually done more than pay lip service to violation of numerous trade agreements, never mind human rights abuses.
All this while the Democrats are fighting to destroy Trump’s presidency.
The modern counterpart of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
“DEMS do plan on trying to impeach Trump again. ”
yes.
And a Trump win in November will only last if the Senate remains republican. otherwise the Dems will just impeach him after he’s inaugurated.
It’s gotta be Repub all the way, Presidency, Senate, House. everywhere.
(hopefully the Dems will have a “series of unfortunate events” politically on the way to election day).
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The Energizer Bunnies of impeachment …
you and yours have a wonderful week felix!
4 years ago
I can’t imagine how that could have been an agonizing decision but I’ll take a NO. What about Collins? Is she still a YES? It really doesn’t matter. It appears Mitch has the votes for no more witnesses and to end the farce.
Poor vindictive Bolton. He as so hoping to be a witness against Trump and sell more books too! Looks like that won’t be happening… Now he thinks he is a victim too.
Bolton hits back, decries impeachment witness ‘retribution’
Bt Tyler Olson
1/31/20
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Thursday defended the impeachment inquiry witnesses who have been attacked by President Trump, implicitly hitting back at similar criticism he has faced for his role in the process.
KXAN reported that as Bolton was speaking to a private gathering for an investment firm in Austin, Texas, he defended several of the officials who testified in the House impeachment hearings, including Alexander Vindman, William Taylor, Fiona Hill, Tim Morrison and Marie Yovanovitch.
…
He was reacting to Trump’s tweet:
“For a guy who couldn’t get approved for the Ambassador to the U.N. years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate [sic] approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model’ on T.V., and … many more mistakes of judgement [sic], gets fired because frankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now, and goes out and IMMEDIATELY writes a nasty & untrue book,” Trump tweeted. “All Classified National Security. Who would do this?”
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bolton-hits-back-decries-impeachment-witness-retribution
This was not about speaking your mind, Bolton. This was clearly about LYING and siding with our enemy because YOU WERE FIRED by TRUMP! YOU EXPOSED yourself for what you REALLY ARE – a deep state, war mongering, hyper sensitive woman in drag.
I am glad Trump didn’t want wars with Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, North Korea or Venezuela etc… There are SEVEN wars we would be in involved in if YOU had YOUR way. You were all for the Viet Nam war too! Worse yet, your tell all book had sensitive NATIONAL SECURITY information in it. What a traitor. Time to hang out with Mitt Romney? If you do, shave off that ridiculous mustache, you old goat.
http://the-moron.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bolton-War.png
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Bolton is finished … his credibility – always tenuous – is now less than zero.
maybe CNN will give him a gig …
they’re the only propaganda outlet fit for him …
his next job: Walmart greeter. …
Apologies to Walmart greeters.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Dan, in my mind I have attempted to understand what has happened with Bolton. For years I greatly respected the man. Either his core character has been well concealed or bitterness toward Trump has rotted his soul.
4 years ago
Reply to
eassa
I didn’t know much about Bolton other than he has been around for awhile – since Reagan. What got my attention was how he trashed Trump over not moving our embassy to Jerusalem right away and this was before Trump gave him the job as National Security Advisor.
Since the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 every President since has had the option of moving our embassy to Jerusalem since it was made law by 104th Congress on October 23, 1995. Each has passed on it.
Built in to the law, was a six-month waiver of the application of the law. The waiver was repeatedly renewed but not acted on by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.President Donald Trump signed a waiver in June 2017. Remember Trump was elected in 2016 and didn’t act on it in December of 2016 but renewed as others did till June of 2017 and then acted on it.
Bolton KNEW this is how that worked and yet he totally TRASHED Trump for not doing this on December of 2016 and not explaining how it this law worked an Trump renewed the option for June 2017. . I was surprised at Bolton’s lack of honesty and not telling the truth about how this worked.
It suprised me that Trump hired him after Bolton trashed Trump in that interview. I have no doubt Bolton literally begged Trump for that position because it is the most powerful position he has ever held and apparently he was determined to middle finger Trump and push HIS POLICIES and AGENDA with cooperation from our deep state.
I wish I could find the video on that. Bolton was really nasty and that is why it stuck in my memory. It was totally unnecessary and perhaps designed for attention. I also think Bolton might have been miffed because he was passed over and not Trump’s first pick. Bolton has a YUGE ego ad his nose is definitely out of joint over being fired.
4 years ago
Reply to
eassa
No man can know the heart of another … he’s a big disappointment …
you and yours have a wonderful weekend!
4 years ago
Thank you God! 🙂
4 years ago
Reply to
eassa
if people just read the IG report, they know the whole thing was frame-up from the beginning. Ukraine is just phase two.
It should have been dismissed.
there should be a resolution to condemn the house.
Then a resolution to EXPUNGE impeachment from the record.
4 years ago
An acquittal in the Senate will be a big relief for the Biden crime family.
4 years ago
Off topic – OOPS!
Collins voted FOR witnesses. Now she looks like a smacked derriere.
Report: Former Ukraine Prosecutor Files Complaint Charging Biden –
Not Trump – Abused Power
By Randy DeSoto
Published January 31, 2020 at 11:46am
The former Ukrainian prosecutor whose firing played centrally in the Democratic House’s impeachment of President Donald Trump reportedly filed a complaint with Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation this week demanding an investigation be opened against Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden.
The French news site Les Crises posted a copy of the complaint in English in which Viktor Shokin charges that Biden wrongfully orchestrated his ouster as Ukraine’s prosecutor general.
“Throughout the last months of 2015 and the first months of 2016 Joseph Biden, taking advantage of his position, came several times on official visits to Ukraine in order to negotiate with the leaders of the country my eviction and, consequently, the closing of the objective investigation into the offenses committed by persons associated with the company ‘Burisma Holding Limited’ (Cyprus), including the son of the aforementioned US official,” Shokin’s complaint reads.
The former vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, was reportedly paid at least $50,000 a month and possibly upward of $83,000 a month to serve on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma at the same time his father was the Obama administration’s point man for U.S. foreign policy regarding Ukraine.
“Due to continued pressure from the Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden to oust me from the job by blackmailing the allocation of financial assistance, I, as the man who places the State interests above my personal interests, I agreed to abandon the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine,” Shokin wrote in his complaint.
He went on to say, “After my resignation caused by illegal pressure, no active investigation into the offenses concerning the company ‘Burisma Holding Limited’ (Cyprus) was carried out and, therefore, the persons implicated in these offenses were not identified, nor arrested or charged.”
Shokin concluded that Biden “abused his power as the Vice-President of the United States in order to prevent me from carrying out my duties as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.”
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https://www.westernjournal.com/report-former-ukraine-prosecutor-files-complaint-charging-biden-not-trump-abused-power/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Good news!
Then there are all the financial advantages that Joe’s brothers obtained when Joe went as VP to various countries. It seems that Hunter and his uncles benefited from Joe Biden getting them overpaid jobs.
For Hunter to be paid $83,333 a month for being on the BOG exceeds what members of any BOG in the US receive. He didn’t know the language, no experience in oil, and no experience for being on the BOG. From what I have read or gleaned form the news, his job consisted of showing up twice a year for a board meeting.
It really pays to be related to Joe Biden. Hopefully he answers the charges in the Ukraine and ends up being a captive resident. But will he know where he is?
4 years ago
Lisa enjoys playing the reluctant bride role in the Senate. She knows full well that a vote against Trump would cause her to be primaried in 2022.
4 years ago
Right now, any Republican not standing with Trump will be “dead meat” politically.
