Senate Republicans push back on calls
for more impeachment witnesses
Politico,
by
Marianne Levine
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
1/27/2020 10:26:50 AM
Senate Republicans on Sunday defended President Donald Trump and panned calls for witnesses to testify in the Senate impeachment trial, ahead of the start of the second week.
In interviews on major networks, Republicans appeared unmoved by House Democrats’ opening arguments for Trump’s removal and reiterated that the Senate should not seek new evidence.Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a strong Trump ally, warned on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo” that calling in witnesses would create only more havoc.
“What do we do?” Graham said. “Delay the trial so the president can go to court?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/27/2020 11:08:50 AM (No. 299504)
The Demos are on every talking head show with their talking points right now, putting public pressure on Roberts to "do what the American people demand and deserve" and rule that witnesses must be heard. This is Trial By CNN and MSNBC and not Trial By Senate. The Demos always do the same thing---search out the most vulnerable and go right for the jugular. They work incrementally, one tiny step at a time and when they see daylight they pass the baton to their accomplices---the media who run with it.
Trump's brilliant defense will hopefully cut them off at the pass in their endeavor.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/27/2020 11:16:09 AM (No. 299511)
Kill this quick. Don't let the Dems do the usual last minute innuendo campign like C. Thomas of Kavanaugh. The sooner it ends, the sooner all this stops. The Dems may take up another impeachment witch hunt but then it runs into campign season and voters will really notice. How can 2 presidents in the entire history be impeached but partisan Dems can dream up impeachment twice on one president in less than a year?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/27/2020 11:18:18 AM (No. 299512)
Every time I see Schumer he has his head down reading glasses on the tip of his nose and struggling to read his fresh off the printer talking points that someone in his office wrote for him. Weakly struggling to make his lies believable and racking up failure after failure in his Trump Deranged insanity. He is a pathetic bumbling drooling old fool.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 1/27/2020 11:19:15 AM (No. 299513)
Witnesses of what, Trump didn't do anything to witness? The Bidens' should get their own trial.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/27/2020 11:20:38 AM (No. 299514)
And now Chuckie has put himself in front of a camera to spew more talking points. I thought jurors aren't supposed to discuss their case with the outside. But, then political kabuki theatre performances must be exempted.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/27/2020 11:31:30 AM (No. 299525)
So, Bolton has this info in his manuscript? Manuscript! not a published book, right? Manuscripts go through revisions and edits, so this so-called smoking gun information could not make the final cut. Wouldn't that be something? Do we chase every rabbit until PDT disappears, or what? And, we have 29000 people who say there's no there there, but one person says oh yeah there is, and everything hangs alone on the word of a possibly disgruntled former employee, hired at the will of the President, who disagrees with the President's account. But, democrats can't see a reason in the world why the Bidens shouldn't have to also testify. Get real! They want their way or the highway, and it doesn't compute. Traitors!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 1/27/2020 11:50:48 AM (No. 299539)
Extending and perpetuating the process is the only goal here.
In gaming (gambling) the "House" always wins because it never quits.
The tides of fortune ebb and flow and the rube quits when he goes broke. (See: Nixon, R.M.)
The Commies care nothing for justice and fairness but rather see the Conservatives as fussy, old Sunday School teachers who want to spoil their highly profitable pranks and ploys.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rama41 1/27/2020 12:00:48 PM (No. 299544)
If four Republicans call for witnesses, they will have established a precedent allowing all future House impeachments to require none. I hope but their arms are being seriously twisted in these daily Republican luncheons.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 1/27/2020 12:17:59 PM (No. 299560)
Of course the manuscript was leaked to the NYT. After Saturday’s presentation by Trump’s defense team this farce was circling the drain so their liberal media toadies had to offer some help. This is all they could come up with. If Bolton testifies it will be another round of what he heard, guessed or presumed. The Democrats are playing a dangerous game because Bolton would not be the only witness. Next up would be the whistleblower, Hunter Biden and Schiff.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 1/27/2020 1:08:04 PM (No. 299603)
No American should be buying John Bolton's un-American book. Laid to waste!!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 1/27/2020 1:19:40 PM (No. 299615)
Absolutely no more witnesses. The Marxist Communist democrats built their case with no provable evidence or facts. Liars cannot prove a lie with no provable facts which they are trying to do. Only illiterates would believe anything they say on any subject.
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