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The American People Are Being Scammed by Mitch McConnell
Senators have a duty to conduct a fair and full trial. The Republican leader is trying to make sure they can’t.
No Witnesses — No Documents. You'll only see this in the Senate courtroom of Mitch McConnell.
'Midnight' Mitch McConnell has his marching orders from President 'Access Hollywood' — prevent former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Senior Adviser to the Acting White House Chief of Staff Robert Blair, and Office of Management and Budget official Michael Duffey from testifying in front of the US Senate and the American people at all costs. And do not allow the Senate to subpoena trial-critical Executive Branch documents that impeachment defendant Donald Trump has walled-off in the darkest recesses of the White House.
In no other courtroom in America will you be able to watch as relevant witness/material evidence is purposefully and willfully withheld. This is the courtroom of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Little different than the sham trials held in Reconstruction America or the choreographed show- trials held today in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Related: The guilty verdict on the Republican party
Senators have a duty to conduct a fair and full trial. The Republican leader is trying to make sure they can’t.
No Witnesses — No Documents. You'll only see this in the Senate courtroom of Mitch McConnell.
1/22/20
The removal of a sitting president is the last line of defense provided by the framers of the Constitution against the abuse of power by the leader of our country. When senators take an oath to uphold the Constitution, they assume the grave responsibility to conduct a thorough and fair trial on behalf of the American people. Dismissing this process set out in the Constitution, President Trump has called the impeachment process a “scam.” That’s his opinion, of course — but this week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is doing everything he can to ensure that the Senate trial actually is a scam. An impeachment trial is only meaningful if the American people can have confidence in the fairness of the process; only then will the trial’s verdict be worthy of respect. Mr. McConnell is advocating trial procedures that would undercut any possibility of that. Americans understand the basic contours of a fair trial: Each side presents relevant evidence, in the form of documents and witnesses. But Mr. McConnell and President Trump’s allies in the Senate appear to think that the president should be allowed to play by his own rules. The McConnell impeachment procedural resolution that the Senate adopted early Wednesday morning appears designed to, among other things, prevent either side from introducing testimony and evidence about President Trump’s alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Every impeachment trial in American history has heard from fact witnesses. And at least every impeachment trial in the last hundred years has heard fact testimony from new witnesses — those who have not previously provided evidence to the House of Representatives. Breaking from this ironclad precedent to protect President Trump, Mr. McConnell’s rules provide no assurance that the Senate will hear from witnesses or collect evidence.
What happens next is not just for Mr. McConnell to decide. Each senator can uphold his or her constitutional duty and vote in the coming weeks, as they should have voted yesterday, to ensure that they have the information they need to decide whether the president solicited a foreign power’s assistance in his re-election and tried to prevent Congress from investigating that conduct, and whether that conduct necessitates his removal from office. The president’s allies in the Senate must ask themselves whether they would brush aside such serious allegations if someone else was occupying the White House. One suspects that they would react very differently if, for instance, President Barack Obama had been accused of asking a foreign government to investigate Mitt Romney. The American people want their senators to engage in a serious quest for the truth. A recent CNN poll of voters showed that 69 percent of Americans want the Senate to hear evidence and witnesses in the coming days. As I watched from the Senate gallery Tuesday, the gravity of the moment was palpable. For many senators, the coming days and weeks will see the most consequential votes of their lives. They are being given a stark choice: do what is right for the nation or do what is politically expedient for the most corrupt president in American history.
'Midnight' Mitch McConnell has his marching orders from President 'Access Hollywood' — prevent former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Senior Adviser to the Acting White House Chief of Staff Robert Blair, and Office of Management and Budget official Michael Duffey from testifying in front of the US Senate and the American people at all costs. And do not allow the Senate to subpoena trial-critical Executive Branch documents that impeachment defendant Donald Trump has walled-off in the darkest recesses of the White House.
In no other courtroom in America will you be able to watch as relevant witness/material evidence is purposefully and willfully withheld. This is the courtroom of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Little different than the sham trials held in Reconstruction America or the choreographed show- trials held today in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Related: The guilty verdict on the Republican party