Really? I'm the one doing the twisting??? LOL
Look, you can't have the eggs and the omelette - what is it, the lack of evidence, or the lack of political will? Because, you know, it's the latter. The evidence was absolutely there. You just want to stick your head in the sand and ignore it. With you all, it's like that idea of Trump shooting someone by day light on 5th Avenue... NO evidence will ever be sufficient; you'll always look the other way.
The funny thing is that there was even less political support for impeaching Bill Clinton who was wildly more popular than Trump, but when the shoe is on the other foot, the GOP found it perfectly justified to do it (fortunately, it failed in the Senate due to the two thirds rule).
By the way, John Bolton heard it directly from the horse's mouth, no hearsay needed, but the GOP didn't want him to repeat it to the entire American people. That's called a cover-up. No, the people saying that the case against the president was proven were NOT Never Trumpers... they were actually staunch Trump allies. Their bona fides in this regard actually probably made them courageous enough to say it, since they weren't Never Trumpers, so they said it with impunity. The one Never Trumper who said it too, Mitt Romney, immediately became a pariah...
For those allies to say "the House case was proven, the President did what they say he did, but I just don't think it's enough for removal so I'll vote to acquit" when the Framers absolutely designed the very impeachment device precisely to avoid a president with a debt of gratitude to foreign powers who them would jeopardize America's security, is a joke.
I mean, he wasn't accused of lying about a blowjob... he was accused of blackmailing a foreign power, one involved in an armed conflict with our biggest geopolitical enemy, one that if toppled by said geopolitical enemy would jeopardize the equilibrium of power in Europe (these things are what leads to huge wars) and he tried to withdraw from that foreign power military aid allocated by Congress (he simply doesn't have this power, thus the abuse of power accusation), and then if the extorted foreign power complied, he'd owe them a debt of gratitude and would cheat in a domestic re-election campaign with their help (which is illegal according to US electoral law - the idea that he "committed no crime" is a joke) for his personal gain in an illegal quid-pro-quo, but noooooooo, this is not an impeachable offense, according to these GOP senators who actually acknowledged that he had done it... Ample evidence, ample testimony from multiple people, direct and indirect... If this is not impeachable, then let's abolish the constitutional device of impeachment all together because nothing is. The funny thing is that Trump has already denied his denial. I posted a thread about him admitting now to things he previously said he didn't do (where is the witch hunt, then?) now that he knows he can do whatever with impunity.
There was this cartoon, with the GOP elephant looking at a dead guy bleeding from a gunshot wound under the 5th Avenue street sign, and behind the elephant is John Bolton, and the elephant says "Nobody saw anything, right?" And Bolton behind him says "I did", the elephant ignores him and says, "OK, nobody?" Bolton insists "I saw it, he shot him, I saw him doing it, clear as day" and the elephant never turns to Bolton, continues to have his back to Bolton, and keeps saying "OK, if nobody saw it, there is no sufficient evidence; nothing to see here folks, let's move on."
