Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gets his marching orders from the guy who is ON trial , President Donald J. Trump…
There is NO hint of impartiality for the upcoming impeachment trial…
The outcome is NOT in doubt….
Donald Trump wants the whole thing over and done, maybe thinking that even if he beats there two charges the House has indicted him for…The fact that he WAS impeached will god away?
It won’t….
Donald J. Trump IS now in the history books next to Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton as having been charged by the US Congress of doing things they shouldn’t have….
McConnell wants to please his master by starting a trial yesterday….
House Speaker Pelosi doesn’t seem to want to formally hand up the charges until she gets a concrete outline of how the impeachment trial will play in the US Senate….
The House technically MUST present the charges t0 the Senate….
US Supreme Court Justice Roberts prides over the trial and he isn’t Trump friend at all…
The Democrats under Senate Minority leader Schumer wants to call several witnesses that Trump has NOT allowed to testify before the House ….
A Senate trial has strict rules that would force ALL of the body to be present at….
Questions must be written, before pressed….
All Senate business would grind to a halt….
During all this?
The Democrats are starting their primaries …
McConnell IS a rules guy…
Pelosi is using those rules to counter Trump’s leaning on McConnell to get things done as quickly as possible…
Earlier Tuesday, Trump highlighted objections to the prospect of testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton, as Bolton’s announcement that he is prepared to appear at a trial continued to roil Capitol Hill….
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In a letter to Democratic lawmakers Tuesday night, Pelosi hinted that she would not submit the articles nor tap House impeachment managers — who will effectively serve as the prosecution in the Senate — until McConnell publicly releases the legislation that would detail the parameters and procedures for the trial.
“Sadly, Leader McConnell has made clear that his loyalty is to the President and not the Constitution,” Pelosi wrote in the letter to colleagues. “Leader McConnell has insisted that the approach under consideration is identical to those of the Clinton trial and that ‘fair is fair.’ This is simply not true. This process is not only unfair but designed to deprive Senators and the American people of crucial documents and testimony. Under the Clinton trial, witnesses were deposed.”….
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The media has been pushing the idea that Pelosi HAS TO give McConnell the impeachment charges yesterday…
Several Democrats early today made the media happy by agreeing with them…
EACH one has back tracked from their early comments…
EACH has said it’s Pelosi’s call to make whenever she wants….
There is a rumour that the House Speaker wants the trail going on in the same time as Trump gives the State of the Union Speech…