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And I assume it will be the Democrats, who no longer are in control of the proceeding, deciding whom to call?
This entire thing is unreal. First the House BLOCKS all Republican witnesses in the House, and now they still want to call the shots in the Senate, and block witnesses there?
The House has really put themselves in a corner. They not only want to continue to call witnesses for the Democrats that they failed to in the House, when they had control, but they want continue to block Republican witnesses now that it's in the Senate. Now they about to have the full extent of Biden's corruption (during an impeachment seeking for signs of Trump's corruption) be revealed for all the voters to see.
- Not a fact witness in the bunch. Spare us!
- Control? Yeah lets wait years for the courts to rule on our useless subpoenas
- Republicans has 2 years of a majority, 2017 and 18, to investigate Joe Biden. Again. Spare us!
Let's not forget that Bolton is a disgruntled employee who has a book to sell. His credibility is questionable due to those two factors alone.
I don't think he has much, or it would have came out already.
They are just putting pressure on the Senators to allow witness so that they can further have the opportunity the damage Trump and hope something will arise to turn the tide and remove him from office ASAP.
Dems are coming after Trump and the Senators just as a regular pattern of behavior. It will continue regardless of what happens with the impeachment trial. They might as well nuke the trial now and deal with the book if necessary when it comes out. It's not like Dems need Bolton's book to try and damage GOP Senators... that's just what they do.
Hardly. The specter of Bolton and Parnas being called to testify before the house after acquittal and making the GOP look like corrupt fools who perpetuated a cover up is hanging over the Sentate chamber like a cloud of smoke at a pop festival. All of the republican senators with tough reelecton contests coming up are trying to handicap their odds of reelection depending on how they vote to call witnesses.
If the House decides to call more witnesses, they will go through the courts, whatever it takes, which means the testimony could happen just prior to November.
Roll the dice, Mitch. If you're wrong, the credibility of the GOP is finished in the United States.
They can call Bolton in the House, but Executive Privilege will still apply.
Except they didn't, in this case. Where's the Atkinson transcript? Why is Schiff withholding it?
I can offer a theory, but you won't like it because it won't fit your preconceived notion that Schiff has nefarious motives.
My suspicion is that Michael Atkinson's transcript was not declassified because his testimony likely focused heavily, if not exclusively, on the circumstances surrounding the whistleblower complaint, and Democrats don't want to reveal the whistleblower's identity.
As for the substance, I doubt the testimony is exculpatory to Trump. Why? Because John Ratcliffe (R-TX) has been making the rounds on Fox News stating that that the transcript contains evidence that Schiff's office was in contact with the whistleblower.
Assuming for the sake of argument that Ratcliffe is being truthful, then that would arguably provide grounds for an ethics probe into Schiff's role, but it would not in any way detract from the evidence of Trump's conduct that has been independently verified by other sources, including the July 25 call summary itself.
In other words, you can investigate the investigators, but it wouldn't absolve Trump of all wrongdoing. There's no "exclusionary rule" in U.S. politics, and two wrongs don't cancel each other out.
The Democrats can SAY anything they want and even with the Media lying for them and trying to convince people otherwise, they are POWERLESS in the Senate.
They can call Bolton in the House, but Executive Privilege will still apply.
Actually, by claiming that the conversation "never happened" Trump has waived privilege over that particular topic. Privilege cannot be asserted over a discussion you deny existed.
This whole case stems on Trump's intent to discourage corruption in the Ukraine, and Hunter Biden is an example of the worst of it, given his pay-off from Burisma. So too is Joe Biden, who ironically blackmailed the Ukrainians by withholding a fortune in aid unless they stopped investigating his son for corruption. It shows just how deep the corruption runs - and how much the Obama WH was involved with it.
But shhhhhh…...
Are really still peddling this tripe? They had all the time in the world to investigate Biden. And again Biden has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with this impeachment no matter how many times you and yours repeat it.
Lol... of course not. Republicans have committed themselves to Trump, rebranded themselves as Trumpettes. Anyone, including Jesus and their mothers, who tries to take Trump down is instantly thrown into thresher.
The Republican were not able to subpoena witnesses, period, full stop.
The democrats were the only ones that could call witnesses, and the Republicans could only request witnesses.
The democrats denied almost all of the witnesses the Republicans requested, except the witnesses that already testified.
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