Why Is Mitch McConnell So Afraid of John Bolton? The Senate must hear his testimony..

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The Senate must hear his testimony in an impeachment trial.

The importance of John Bolton’s offer to testify if subpoenaed in the impeachment proceedings against President Trump cannot be overstated. In a single stroke, Mr. Bolton, the former national security adviser, elevated truth and transparency over political gamesmanship.

The Senate must take him up on his offer, as well as demand the testimony of President Trump and the administration officials he has barred from testifying. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, reportedly has the votes to proceed with the trial despite no agreement with Democrats on new witnesses and to leave it a question to take up after opening arguments. The Senate still must declare that it will call witnesses during the trial.

Everyone — Republicans, Democrats and independents — must know that these crucial witnesses will be heard.

The core principle behind the rule of law is that justice is blind and partisan identity should not influence a trial’s outcome. But anyone watching Mr. McConnell twist himself into knots in trying to block witnesses and documents has to wonder whether this notion ever took root in his mind. He has gone so far as to say that “there will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can.” He also said, “There’s no chance the president is going to be removed from office.”

How can Mr. McConnell make such a claim without having heard from Mr. Bolton? Remember that the diplomat Fiona Hill testified at the House impeachment hearings that Mr. Bolton called the pressuring of Ukraine by the administration a “drug deal” and said he wanted no part of it. Mr. Bolton himself has said that he possesses new information that has not been revealed. He even gave a speech saying that some of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy decisions were made in his self-interest, not in the interest of the American people. Particularly after the United States’ killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran, such questions have arisen once again.

And how can Mr. McConnell make such a claim without having heard from the most important witness of all, Mr. Trump? The president has been too scared to testify, and too scared to let anyone else in his administration testify. This is not a particularly compelling demonstration of innocence. When the House was holding impeachment hearings, Mr. Trump said he wanted the acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry to testify. Even that pretense is now gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/opinion/john-bolton-testify.html
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We all know the answer and that is the fact that Moscow Mitch is a criminal and aiding and abetting another criminal.
 
I THOUGHT THAT THE STALIN-O-CRATS ALREADY PRESENTED THEIR EVIDENCE???

THE SENATE WILL ALLOW THE STALIN-O-CRATS THE SAME WITNESSES THEY CALLED TO MAKE THEIR CASE IN THE HOUSE. THEY SHOULD NOT NEED ANYMORE, SINCE THEY ALREADY FILED.

OOOPS!!!
 
Cinnabar said:
We all know the answer and that is the fact that Moscow Mitch is a criminal and aiding and abetting another criminal.
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Why was Naziy so afraid to wait for the courts to decide if the subpoena was valid?
 
Moscow is shitting bricks

and word is Nancy is drawing up new Articles of Impeachment anyway, the House can impeach as many times as they wish, once again the GOP is misunderestimating Madam Speaker
 
Bigdog said:
Why was Naziy so afraid to wait for the courts to decide if the subpoena was valid?
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Maybe Bolton has evidence that can clear the IMPEACHED ONE so why is everyone on the right so afraid of the outcome? Think about it. Think about it real hard.
 
Cinnabar said:
We all know the answer and that is the fact that Moscow Mitch is a criminal and aiding and abetting another criminal.
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The more scum that comes out about Trump, from this story, the worst it's going to be for the GOP in 2020, and that is why Moscow is trying to quell this impeachment hearing as quickly and as quietly as possible. Moscow has got quite a few seats to protect in 2020, to keep control of the senate.
 
Cinnabar said:
Maybe Bolton has evidence that can clear the IMPEACHED ONE so why is everyone on the right so afraid of the outcome? Think about it. Think about it real hard.
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Clear? ... We have the transcript. You have no evidence against him. No defense is needed. Innocent until proven guilty.

So why didn't Naxiy wait for the court to decide?
 
Trumpet said:
The more scum that comes out about Trump, from this story, the worst it's going to be for the GOP in 2020, and that is why Moscow is trying to quell this impeachment hearing as quickly and as quietly as possible. Moscow has got quite a few seats to protect in 2020, to keep control of the senate.
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We have to get rid of all the scum or the USA is royally screwed. AND no more republican-lite Dems or this will happen again.
 
Bigdog said:
Clear? ... We have the transcript. You have no evidence against him. No defense is needed. Innocent until proven guilty.

So why didn't Naxiy wait for the court to decide?
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Why are you repeating lies? Who do you think you are bull-shitting to? Some backwoods backwards hillbilly nitwit? We New Yorkers knew the morons were being sold a rancid bill of goods with the IMPEACHED ONE.
 
Cinnabar said:
Why are you repeating lies? Who do you think you are bull-shitting to? Some backwoods backwards hillbilly nitwit? We New Yorkers knew the morons were being sold a rancid bill of goods with the IMPEACHED ONE.
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Then you don't need anymore testimony, now do you, Nazi?
 
Grokmaster said:
I THOUGHT THAT THE STALIN-O-CRATS ALREADY PRESENTED THEIR EVIDENCE???

THE SENATE WILL ALLOW THE STALIN-O-CRATS THE SAME WITNESSES THEY CALLED TO MAKE THEIR CASE IN THE HOUSE. THEY SHOULD NOT NEED ANYMORE, SINCE THEY ALREADY FILED.

OOOPS!!!
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That is not the way ANY trial works...and I suspect even you sycophants know this.

The trial should consider ANY AND ALL evidence that can be obtained.

It won't. The fix is in...even though the odds of a conviction without the fix is astronomical.

But...the fear these craven cowards feel at the hands of Trump rivals the fear Iraqi politicians had at the hand of Saddam Hussein. (Or North Koreans at the hands of Kim; Soviets at the hands of Stalin; and Germans at the hands of Hitler.)

Amazing how far we have fallen.
 
Cinnabar said:
We all know the answer and that is the fact that Moscow Mitch is a criminal and aiding and abetting another criminal.
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Then why is america allowing him to continue in that position?

Lock him up as they do Black men and sort out the details later ............if he survives prison.
 
TTQ64 said:
Then why is america allowing him to continue in that position?

Lock him up as they do Black men and sort out the details later ............if he survives prison.
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Obviously our Constitution was not written with this type treason and treachery in mind. Tar and feather the POS and all the enablers of this crime syndicate.
 
Frank Apisa said:
That is not the way ANY trial works...and I suspect even you sycophants know this.

The trial should consider ANY AND ALL evidence that can be obtained.

It won't. The fix is in...even though the odds of a conviction without the fix is astronomical.

But...the fear these craven cowards feel at the hands of Trump rivals the fear Iraqi politicians had at the hand of Saddam Hussein. (Or North Koreans at the hands of Kim; Soviets at the hands of Stalin; and Germans at the hands of Hitler.)

Amazing how far we have fallen.
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The way *impeachment* works, Frank, is the House builds the case—it’s their responsibility to gather evidence, not the Senate. The Senate’s role is to render a judgement on the case/articles sent to them by the House. And then either acquit or vote for removal of office.

Democrats had a shot at Bolton but they dropped the ball on it. The why doesn’t matter. The spin doesn’t matter. Democrat didn’t complete the investigation prior to passing the articles. It’s that simple.

And they did this for crass partisan purposes: they wanted Trump impeached by Christmas to appease their, radical, Trump hating base.
 
The House has enough evidence to impeach Trump (they say) so no more evidence is needed. Its not the Senates job to fix the House's shoddy work.
 
Grokmaster said:
I THOUGHT THAT THE STALIN-O-CRATS ALREADY PRESENTED THEIR EVIDENCE???

THE SENATE WILL ALLOW THE STALIN-O-CRATS THE SAME WITNESSES THEY CALLED TO MAKE THEIR CASE IN THE HOUSE. THEY SHOULD NOT NEED ANYMORE, SINCE THEY ALREADY FILED.

OOOPS!!!
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They will allow all the fact wittiness. That is one wittiness.
 
Darth Omar said:
The way *impeachment* works, Frank, is the House builds the case—it’s their responsibility to gather evidence, not the Senate. The Senate’s role is to render a judgement on the case/articles sent to them by the House. And then either acquit or vote for removal of office.
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Really?

And that is in the copy of the Constitution you have?

Mine left that part out...and I suspect YOURS did also.

Democrats had a shot at Bolton but they dropped the ball on it. The why doesn’t matter. The spin doesn’t matter. Democrat didn’t complete the investigation prior to passing the articles. It’s that simple.
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No ball has been dropped...except for the one in Times Square a few nights back.

But...if you want to dream...have at it.

And they did this for crass partisan purposes: they wanted Trump impeached by Christmas to appease their, radical, Trump hating base.
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They did it because it was the proper thing to do...the thing that comes closest to protecting the Constitution.

Trump will almost certainly walk. But that will not please his ignorant base.

They are determined to see him outfitted in a sable cloak...perhaps with a small, unobtrusive crown.

You people are blind...blind as the Germans of early 1930's Germany.
 
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