Because the previous administration and most of the people in both chambers would be guilty of same.
What we have here is a case of epistemic closure
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The Dems got their butts kicked this AM. Monday will be glorious. I can't wait!
1. If the Bidens did something wrong they should be prosecuted. I am all for it being investigated.
2. Not sure who the best choice is, but I know the worst choice. I would be fine with Warren if not for two things: A. Paying off people’s student loans and B. Including immigrants in universal health care. Those are absurd concepts. Those eliminate my vote.
I am going to study up on Bloomberg.
Warren is toast. If Bernie wins Iowa it will be a long fight with Biden for the nomination. If Biden wins Iowa he will be the nominee. Bloomberg will hang around until after Super Tuesday and then decide if he wants to run as an independent especially if It looks like Bernie will be the nominee.
Veer is the epitome of hit and run posters. He might read every post for a week and think he spotted a crack in someones logic then jump in with both feet. He doesn't like dialogue and never makes a statement other than someone else is flawed in some way. He adds nothing.
I don know if you were around in 2016, I was leading the call for investigating the Clinton foundation.
An “emolument” is a gift meant to curry favor or influence from the president. If a foreign ambassador stays at Trump Tower and pays the same $500 per night charge that everyone else staying there pays then it’s not a gift. They are simply paying a reasonable and customary charge for services rendered.
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And it just happens to result in profit for one certain family. Gee that’s not buying favors or anything. Of course it is.
- President Donald Trump's defense team repeatedly argued on Saturdaythat there isn't enough evidence to impeach him because Congress hasn't heard from any witnesses who had "direct contact" with the president.
- Democratic lawmakers seized on those statements, saying they underscore the need to call more firsthand witnesses in Trump's trial.
- Moreover, while Trump's lawyers complain of not hearing testimony from direct witnesses, the defense could easily solve that problem by retracting Trump's sweeping directive barring all executive branch officials across six agencies from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry.
- "The president's counsel did something that they did not intend: they made a really compelling case for why the Senate should call witnesses and documents," Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said after opening arguments on Saturday.
There were no new witnesses in the Clinton trial, and as far as I know it's never happened. Not in 1803 or 1868. Nope. Schumer is blowing smoke.
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Again “the evidence is overwhelming” with a side of... we would have evidence if we could have witnesses. Okay....
Have you heard about the Chinese trademarks Ivanka couldn’t get until her Daddy became president?
The senate brought three witnesses in for depositions, but decided against live testimony when things didn’t go as they wished. They showed deposition video at trial.
Over the first three days in February, House managers deposed Lewinsky, Jordan, and Blumenthal. Lewinsky's deposition took place in a hotel suite before a throng of over forty attorneys and congressional aides. Under Congressman Edward Bryant's inartful questioning, she proved a dominating and unhelpful witnesses, often answering with just a "yes" or a "no." She described her present feelings toward the President as "mixed" and claimed that she filed her false affidavit in the Jones case for her own interests, not Clinton's. Most observers left the deposition believing that Lewinsky was no victim. Tom Griffin, the Senate's chief lawyer, having witnessed the deposition, described it to Trent Lott as "a disaster."
Support for live witnesses collapsed after the Lewinsky deposition. The Senate voted 70 to 30 against issuing Lewinsky a subpoena to testify. Instead, on a 62 to 38 vote, the Senate authorized each side to show video excerpts of deposition testimony by each of the three witnesses. On February 6, the managers projected video images of Lewinsky, Jordan, and Blumenthal on four flat screens at the front of the chamber. Clinton's lawyers did the same, offering an uninterrupted twenty-minute clip of Lewinsky that showed her intelligence and near-total control of her questioner.
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Duck is selling Monica Lewinsky was a new witness in the Clinton Impeachment and that since she consented to provide her services, she didn't make a sympathetic witness for the Republicans. What is this guy smoking?
