Impeachment
Rules, Witnesses, Documents: I can't hear you
(You have
to ask Mitch)
Major
update on the following story here from the Washington
Post (by Paul Waldman) – with this introduction:
Though
articles of impeachment against President Trump have been approved by the
House, the investigation — both official and journalistic — is by no means
over.
Newly revealed emails demonstrate not just why
Democrats are so eager for Trump’s trial in the Senate to include testimony
from witnesses we have yet to hear from, but also why Republicans are so
frightened of the prospect:
An official from the White House budget office
directed the Defense Department to “hold off sending military aid to
Ukraine” less than two hours after Trump’s controversial phone call
with Ukrainian President Zelensky, according to internal emails.
Michael Duffey, a senior OMB official, told Pentagon
officials that Trump had become personally interested in the Ukraine aid and
had ordered the hold, according to the heavily redacted emails, obtained by the
Center for Public Integrity in response to a FOIA request. He also asked the
Pentagon not to discuss the hold widely.
Now we know why House Democrats subpoenaed Duffey as part of the impeachment inquiry —
and why he and other officials refused to comply as part of the White House’s
stonewalling of the inquiry.
You might say
that while these emails give us some more detail about how this policy was
implemented, it doesn’t change the basic story.
Rest of story follows at
link.
Directly
related is this story which is stunning, shocking, disgusting, and maybe unlawful
and illegal statement from Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Fox
with Hannity. It’s as if McConnell were acting like the foreman of a jury
telling the court:
“I have made
up mind in advance of this trial, and despite what the guilty evidence will
show, I have predetermined that the defendant is innocent, so let’s make this
trial as short as possible.” (His words have that impact). Specifics follow in
the story below:
WASHINGTON (and from USA
Today and other sites by Nicholas
Wu) – Democratic lawmakers slammed GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell for his statement of his intention to be in (his own words on
Fox with Hannity): “In total coordination with the White House” on impeachment
strategy as Congress prepares for a historic vote to impeach President Donald J.
Trump next week.
In an evening
interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, McConnell, described his planning with the White House this way in his
own words:
“We'll be working through this process, hopefully
in a fairly short period of time in
total coordination with the White House counsel's office and the people who are representing the president
as well as the Senate.”
My 2 cents: The entire public should be outraged at
this stunt in the making from McConnell… is words are stunning and just plain unbelievable.
Just image any trial with a 100% identified serial
killer on trial and McConnell as jury foreman saying publicly: “Despite the evidence I believe the proof is fake,
false, and ginned up, and the defendant also told me his is innocent so as the jury
foreman I will make sure the verdict favors him as innocent and thus he must be
exonerated.”
I would fully expect the entire country to rise up and
say hell no, as many witnesses and documents as possible – be fair and open and
honest with us: “We the People” not with the narrow-minded, closed-minded, one-sided politicians.
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