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kpete

(72,028 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:38 PM Jan 2020

Schiff Says No Vindication Will Come from Rigged Trial

House impeachment manager Adam Schiff said that if the Senate does not allow witnesses and documents at trial, the chamber will be guilty of “working with the President to obstruct the truth from coming out,” CNN reports.

He added: “If Sen. McConnell makes this the first impeachment trial in history without witnesses or documents, it will not prove the President innocent — it will merely prove the Senate guilty of working with the President to obstruct the truth from coming out.”

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-trial-01-21-20/h_f9fe278ae3818d1332bd8fda1895d5dd

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MagickMuffin

(15,962 posts)
1. Yes indeed The Innocent Man
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jan 2020

HAS NOTHING TO HIDE!

So, by these standards they are GUILTY. Otherwise you have to PROVE your innocence.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
3. too bad that Roberts
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:56 PM
Jan 2020

couldn't do like that judge in the Untouchables movie with Kevin Costner - switch out the juries.

IADEMO2004

(5,566 posts)
5. Potemkin Senate Trial for Fox watchers. Pure BS Hope I'm wrong.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 01:08 PM
Jan 2020

Flicker of hope a few GOP would have a movie moment and say "Enough"

djacq

(1,634 posts)
6. Rep. Adam Schiff and Managers did their homework.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jan 2020

WH's team counter argument is not to defend what Trump did but to attack the House.

If Moscow Mitch gets his way, everyone who respects democracy will feel that knife slowly plunge the back.

kpete

(72,028 posts)
7. "The innocent do not behave this way."
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 03:47 PM
Jan 2020

— House manager Adam Schiff, arguing for impeaching President Trump in the Senate.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,178 posts)
8. What I fear is that once this kangaroo court is over, it will fade like the Mueller Report
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 03:58 PM
Jan 2020

Who knows what's even all in that report? Barr has refused to allow an unredacted version to be read by Democrats.

But they have successfully painted the Mueller Report as a complete exoneration. And the MSM define it as a Democratic loss.

I can only project that something very similar will happen. Republicans and the MSM will be painting the inevitable not guilty vote, and that trial, as a nothing burger. The GOP talking point will be painted as "a Democratic deep state attack on the elected President because they wanted to re-fight the last election".

I am hoping beyond hope maybe, that the MSM will not fall back to always looking at it as who gets the political advantage out of an outcome, and instead get "woke" like Chucky portends to be now, about how Republicans are anti-American traitors.

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