More like ‘low-lights’, but Okay…
Daily Signal: House Democrats on Thursday, in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, argued that a crime isn’t necessary to remove a president from office and doubled down on their defense of Joe and Hunter Biden.
The seven House Democrats who are the impeachment managers, including Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Jerry Nadler of New York, have three days, with up to 24 hours, to make their arguments.
On Saturday, the president’s legal defense team, which includes White House counsel Pat Cipollone; Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow; and former independent counsel Ken Starr, begin their counterarguments.
After each side presents its case, the Senate will vote on whether to call witnesses to testify. The rules are similar to those used in the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, who was acquitted.
It takes a two-thirds vote, or 67 senators, to remove a president from office.
1. Lighthearted Schiff
After a deeply partisan fight over Senate trial rules on Tuesday and speaking for about two hours in Wednesday’s opening argument, Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, was more lighthearted Thursday.
After Chief Justice John G. Roberts opened the day’s session, he said House impeachment managers have 16 hours and 42 minutes left to make their case to the Senate “jurors.”
Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, spoke first for his team.
“I am not sure the chief justice is fully aware of just how rare it is, how extraordinary it is, for the House members to be able to command the attention of senators sitting silently for hours—or even for minutes, for that matter,” he said. “Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the morning starts out every day with a sergeant-at-arms warning you that if you don’t, you will be imprisoned.”
2. Defending Joe and Hunter Biden
Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, spent much of her floor time defending former Vice President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, and his son Hunter Biden.
“Common sense will tell us that this allegation against Joe Biden is false,” Garcia said, adding, “President Trump asked for the investigation into Biden, based on a made-up theory that no one agreed with—no one.”
In 2016, Joe Biden, as vice president, threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid from Ukraine unless the Eastern European nation fired Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings. Hunter Biden held a high-paying job on the board of Burisma at a time when his father was the Obama administration’s point man for Ukraine. keep reading
Let’s say, for purposes of discussion, that Shokin was corrupt. Biden still threatened to withhold money from Ukraine if the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden was not fired. So Trump was not interested in asking for help investigating Biden for two years. It is generally acknowledged that the Ukrainian government was corrupt at the time. By the time President Trump made that phone call, Ukraine had a new President who ran on a platform of anti-corruption. As President Trump said, he wanted to see if the new Ukrainian President would live up to his campaign promises.
I read a couple of days ago, but I don’t remember where:
“We can’t investigate Hillary because she is no longer in office.
We can’t investigate Biden because he is running for office.
Just when can we investigate a Democrat?”
Impeachment viewership increased by 799% for Shiff’s show…
His popularity is rising to the surface so it can float,
Along with some other biological refuse. Sarcasm
“Common sense will tell us that this allegation against Joe Biden is false,”
Then why is there video of him bragging about it?
WHATEVER sh!t happened in the Dems’ last 3 days…
…beginning with the Trump Team‘s 3 days…
I look forward to TONS of
CRUSHing, DRIVENing and LAMENTATIONing!
Schiff has new, damning evidence that is so secret that he hasn’t even made it up yet.
The two words that the democraps need to remember in November are McGovern and Mondale. It will be an epic blowout of the democrap party because a large enough percentage of good Americans will see to it to kick their collective asses in the next Presidential election. Nobody except the dumbest and most evil amongst the democraps wants to see Gulags in America, if that were to happen they’d face a Civil war that they can’t win.