BusterAg said:
fasthorse05 said:
I guarantee you, there's also a political risk the Reps will be beat to death by the press with the never ending shouts of "they're being mean, it's unfair, yada, yada, yada,". If enough people hear it and see it, we may not be quite so happy here.
Which is why I think that the Senate goes with a very brief trial. Opening statement says "if there was smoke around corruption, the President's actions were legal. If there was no smoke at the time around corruption, the President contemplated a course of action that was unethical, but it was not a High Crime or Misdemeanor, because, he ultimately did not follow through"
Bring witnesses that show that there was real smoke around corruption.
"See, the President was trying to root out real corruption. Our Democratic colleagues will not come to the defense of the actions of Hunter Biden. They do not pretend that what Hunter did was ethical. The Democrats are sore because the corruption the POTUS was trying to root out involved their presidential frontrunner. However, we believe that no one is above the law, and this was absolutely acceptable behavior."
You could wrap all of that up in a week or two.
Trump seems to want the Senate to use this to drag absolutely everyone through the mud. I'm not sure that this is not a bluff on Trump's part. I think a short, quick, damning trial without the need for Trump to testify would be the best course of action.
If the IG shows some wrong doing and Durham gets indictments then this show trial is the ONLY place the President and his team has a hope of exposing the truth.
The reason impeachment polling dropped was enough people tuned into the testimony to see that the witnesses were not credible. The press could not convince the viewers that their eyes were lying.
I don't think Trump wanted this but he sure as hell better use it to get the facts (which are complex) out to the people.
On a side note I heard the last two minutes of Pelosi's speech in the car on the way to a meeting.
Even though she quoted our founders it came out like this:
" WE, by the grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, seated on the throne occupied by the same dynasty from time immemorial, enjoin upon ye, Our loyal and brave subjects:
We hereby declare War on the United States of America and the British Empire. The men and officers of Our Army and Navy shall do their utmost in prosecuting the war. Our public servants of various departments shall perform faithfully and diligently their respective duties; the entire nation with a united will shall mobilize their total strength so that nothing will miscarry in the attainment of Our war aims.
To ensure the stability of East Asia and to contribute to world peace is the far-sighted policy which was formulated by Our Great Illustrious Imperial Grandsire [Emperor Meiji] and Our Great Imperial Sire succeeding Him [Emperor Taish], and which We lay constantly to heart. To cultivate friendship among nations and to enjoy prosperity in common with all nations, has always been the guiding principle of Our Empire's foreign policy. It has been truly unavoidable and far from Our wishes that Our Empire has been brought to cross swords with America and Britain... "
As far as I could tell Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party just declared war on 45% of the American population. They will need to learn what this means:
Don't Tread on Me