Senior political analyst Byron York just explained just how weak Democrat’s impeachment cases REALLY is in 7 tweets. Basically, Democrats...
Senior political analyst Byron York just explained just how weak Democrat’s impeachment cases REALLY is in 7 tweets. Basically, Democrats are stalling:
Overnight, Democrats on House Judiciary released their 180-page report on impeachment. Coupled with GOP views, plus original 300-page report from Democrats on Intel Committee, its your one-stop, 600+ page impeachment headquarters: ow.ly/BDIp50xAWt8
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Schumer doing cable TV this morning. Setting terms of impeachment fight for next month. 1999 Schumer: No new witnesses, no new evidence. 2019 Schumer: Must have new witnesses, new evidence.
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In coming weeks Senate Democrats will insist on hearing testimony House Democrats didn’t even try to hear. Might be a tough argument to make. House has made its case. Time for Senate to judge.
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Atkinson testimony remains only secret testimony in House impeachment probe. Schiff has not said if/when will be released. twitter.com/Sheryl_in_NH/s…
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Schumer and other veteran Democrats will totally flip their positions from 1999. Their argument will be: It’s OK because that was a Bad Impeachment and this is a Good Impeachment. twitter.com/AlapahaBulldog…
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Democratic pre-trial trolling strategy already clear. We need new witnesses! What does Mitch McConnell have to hide? What are they afraid of? New witnesses, new evidence. Americans deserve the whole story. (Except for 'distractions' like Hunter Biden or whistleblower.)
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There is some tension between House Democrats' 'abundance of evidence' claims and Senate Democrats' demand for new witnesses. Bottom line: House Democrats could have pressed for more evidence. They didn't. Case is made; will now be sent to Senate.twitter.com/kasper_239/sta…
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And finally a bonus tweet that puts it all to bed:
Many of you are angry about witnesses. But this is a problem: Democrats are paying a price for their haste to impeach. They didn't go to court to compel testimony, but now they want witnesses they didn't hear to appear magically and testify before Senate.
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Here’s the backstory on Democrats desire for new witnesses in a Senate trial:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to McConnell asking for testimony from Mulvaney, Bolton and two others in an expected Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, as Reuters reports:
“Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer urged formal legal demands for testimony from White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former national security adviser John Bolton, Mulvaney aide Robert Blair and budget official Michael Duffey.
Schumer made his appeal in a letter to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said last week he was coordinating with the White House and has raised the prospect of a short impeachment trial in which no witnesses would be called.
BREAKING NEWS: Schumer’s proposal to McConnell. If he rejects these reasonable ground rules & insists on a non-trial, the House should consider treating that as a breach of the Senate’s oath & withholding the Articles until the Senate reconsidersdemocrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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Democrats in the House of Representatives, where they have a majority, also sought testimony from the four men in their inquiry into whether to impeach Trump over his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his Democratic political rival Joe Biden. Mulvaney, Blair and Duffey all defied subpoenas from a House committee and Bolton was not subpoenaed.
Trump is expected this week to become the third president to be impeached when the House votes on charges that he abused his power by asking Ukraine to investigate Biden and obstructed Congress’ investigation of the matter.
That would set up a trial in the Senate, which is unlikely to vote to remove the Republican president from office.
The obstruction charge against Trump is based partly on White House directives to officials not to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
In his letter, Schumer also asked for the Senate to subpoena a “limited set of documents” that he believes would shed light on Trump’s decision to delay the release of $391 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine and the president’s desire for Ukraine to announce investigations into the Bidens.
“The trial must be one that not only hears all of the evidence and adjudicates the case fairly; it must also pass the fairness test with the American people,” Schumer wrote.
He also laid out a timetable for the expected Senate trial, suggesting that pretrial proceedings take place on Jan. 6, and that senators and U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside, be sworn in the next day.
News —> Schumer lays out his impeachment trial demands in a letter to McConnell. The specifics of what he’s requesting laid out in doc below washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
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A McConnell spokesman did not address the substance of Schumer’s requests, but said the Senate majority leader “has made it clear he plans to meet with Leader Schumer to discuss the contours of a trial soon. That timeline has not changed.”
McConnell has raised the prospect of conducting a short trial without calling any witnesses.
