With demagogue and election cheat Donald "Impeached Forever" Trump's D-team lawyers wrapping up their hand shadow defense yesterday, all they seemed to have was "look at Joe and Hunter Biden....please!" Their summation calling for a quick acquittal of the demonstrably guilty Trump was undercut beyond the confines of the Senate chamber by leaks from former National Security Advisor John "Super 'Stache" Bolton's book manuscript that places the corrupt Trump at the center of the Ukraine shakedown conspiracy.
Senate Majority Leader and evil Trump toady Sen. Moscow Mitch McConnell assembled his team yesterday to count snouts and found that he lacked the 51 votes necessary to deny witnesses from testifying (Bolton prominently). That means that at least 4 Republican senators are -- for now -- going with 75% of the public that wants witnesses to testify. The White (Supremacist) House is arguing that they will go to court to block Bolton and others from testifying on the sham excuse of "executive privilege," which would face big roadblocks in court.
The latest gambit by Trumpist Republicans is to offer a one-for-one witness deal, in which they would call Hunter Biden immediately, even though he's not remotely a fact witness. But it would be the Joni Ernst move: create a circus in the Senate, smear the Bidens, and drive down Joe Biden's polls in Iowa and beyond, all the while diverting from Trump's clear extortion of Ukraine to cheat in the 2020 elections. In other words, finish what Trump attempted with Ukraine, letting corrupt Senators do the job.
BONUS: Trump's clearly rattled, and he's slurring his words more frequently, showing signs of further mental deterioration. Even Fux commentators can't resist chuckling at him:
If you listen closely, you can hear someone with a hot mic at Fox News laugh as the President slurs his speech pic.twitter.com/UdUgvL3SWE— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) January 29, 2020
3 comments:
Step on a snake and it will bite in every direction. Step on a Republican and he or she will lash out against as many Democrats as possible. Logic? Rule of law? Legal precedent? They don't give a shit and they will twist themselves like snakes to try to get out from under pressure.
I'm going out on a limb and hoping I'll have to eat my words, but McConnell will have his votes, there will be no witnesses, the trial will race to the final vote and Fat Donald will be acquitted. Then we will hear a bizarre SOTU where Trump will gloat, brag, and boast his way through it without saying anything of value, simply there to get himself in front of a captive audience for a victory lap.
I'm weary of this, as are many other citizens. No one's mind will be changed, but we the Democrats will have made a stand for the Democracy and the Constitution. When more and more truth is revealed, the Republicans will have egg on their faces and they will deserve to be never trusted again. Sadly, I fear they are willing to live with the the consequences and believe their voters will look the other way.
The cult of Trump is strong and unrelenting. We have to overwhelm them with votes.
donnah -- We, too, hope the votes are there for witnesses, but Moscow Mitch will do everything in his power to coerce his sheep. Looking back, it's too bad the House didn't wait an extra week or 10 days to submit the Articles of Impeachment now that the Rethuglican goal seems to be a quick, bogus acquittal and a Trump campaign rally masquerading as the SOTU.
“a Trump campaign rally masquerading as the SOTU.”
Very well stated,
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