Republicans admit it: Senate impeachment trial of Trump will be a total sham

[babylonsister]

Republicans admit it: Senate impeachment trial of Trump will be a total sham
Mitch McConnell plans to rush through a fake trial to a quick acquittal. So why did Democrats rush impeachment?
Amanda Marcotte
December 12, 2019 6:00PM (UTC)


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell knows Donald Trump is guilty. He just doesn't care — McConnell plans to cover it up and doesn't even really care how obvious that is

All that was made clear from an article published late Wednesday in the Washington Post, in which Senate Republicans admitted that the plan is to rubber-stamp their acquittal of Trump, and their lack of desire to even try to dignify this travesty of justice by pretending to hold a real impeachment trial, as the Constitution demands.

Senate Republicans want to hold "a short impeachment trial early next year that would include no witnesses," the article explains, because they believe "it would be better to limit the trial and quickly vote to acquit Trump."

The reason they believe this is no mystery, of course. As the impeachment hearings in front of the House have showed, Trump looks guiltier with every minute of discussion on his scheme to blackmail Ukrainian leadership into falsely branding his presumed 2020 opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, as a crook. Even when Republicans called witnesses during the impeachment hearings, those witnesses ended up giving testimony that made Trump look worse. When the GOP called a legal "expert" to critique the impeachment process his testimony was a confusing mishmash that only made the pro-impeachment witnesses look stronger.

Trump radiates guilt at every moment and with every public statement. So the only way for McConnell to conceal his guilt is to throw a blanket over the whole thing. Continuing to argue about it, even through the Republican methods of throwing tantrums and creating distractions, isn't really working — Trump's behavior pierces through all the noise like a laser stream of pure, red hot guilt. Looking away and refusing to discuss it as much as humanly possible is the best available option for Republicans.

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https://www.salon.com/2019/12/12/republicans-admit-it-senate-impeachment-trial-of-trump-will-be-a-total-sham/?fbclid=IwAR2fTR2mR_P8mLhG89u-06iFWc0zTzgwgMonAqo-G8Azr878cWjRy3ksht0

[riversedge]

1. so sad about all of this happening.

[Turbineguy]

2. Let's hope we can get

enough people to vote to overcome GOP vote theft.

[cbdo2007]

3. Trust in Pelosi

You think she's dumb enough to let this happen?!?!

I don't know what's going to happen but she has been one step ahead of them every step of the way.

[Botany]

4. Fine. It is time to run TV and social media spots, "You can't be for America and for Trump."

Trump is flying US Air Force planes out of their way to buy gas from him and stay @ his money
losing golf course in N.E. Scotland.

The United States was and still is under attack from Russia and Trump is working for Russia.

Trump paid out a $25 penalty for running a scam university that stole money and sometimes
the death benefits from the families of American G.I.s fighting for this country.

Trump has charged the American people $100 million dollars so he can play golf.