kyzr
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That doesn’t make any sense. None of those people you listed have anything to do with the actual allegations or impeachment against Trump. They’re just a list of people that Trump supporters want to get revenge on.He doesn’t need much defense when the Republicans in the Senate have decided that they just want a show trial.Trump readies impeachment defense with eye on scoring political wins
Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, spent the weekend working from his office on the second floor of the West Wing, preparing to defend a client who, at one point, was on the second floor of the executive residence suggesting the impeachment charges against him should be dismissed outright.
Local : 2020-01-13(Monday) 21:02:10
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Looks like the Dems are shooting themselves in the feet with their impeachment crusade..
A show trial would have a lot of witnesses, like Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Ciaramella, Schiff, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, the Ohrs, Lynch, Barr, Durham, and the other deep state folks that got caught in the coup plots against Trump.
OTOH, the dems could call Bolton, Mulvaney, Pompeo and anyone else who would just claim executive privilege. That's the "show trial" view.
The "short trial" view just throws out all the 2nd hand evidence, and Article-2, and just dismisses them for lack of evidence and lack of constitutionality. Article-2 is thrown out because the USSC just took the Trump vs. House subpoena for his tax records, so Trump does in-fact have the right to appeal to the courts and that is NOT "obstruction of the House". Supreme Court ruling pulls rug out from under article of impeachment
On the other hand, Mulvaney, Bolton, Giuliani and Pompeo are all relevant witnesses. If they want to claim executive privilege, then it’ll be an interesting test case to see if that claim stands up since its never been used before in this context.
The defense witnesses list can be used to prove the various conspiracies against Trump, plus the Bidens cash cow, Burisma, and how the whistle-blower was used against Trump as a deep state plant, put there by Brennan and and coached by Schiff, and especially the impeachment "coup" as just one more plot in a sequence of plots against Trump. The defense witnesses are all about motive and the various conspiracies against Trump. No other president has had anything close to the level of hatred and opposition that Trump has had. The "impeachment" was not warranted and was only done to inflict political damage.
The "Executive Privilege" claim would take years to litigate, so basically there are no witnesses that are of any use to the democrats.
The impeachment has nothing to do with “various” conspiracies against Trump.
No one has ever claimed executive privilege in an impeachment trial. Nixon couldn’t even claim it in an impeachment investigation. I don’t think the claim would get very far but I’d love to see how it all goes down.
The impeachment has everything to do with the continuous conspiracies and coup attempts against Trump.
1. FBI Operation Crossfire Hurricane, started off fine, but quickly went off the rails with falsifying evidence and illegal FISA warrants
2. The CIA using foreign intel assets to setup Popadope and the Trump campaign by falsely claiming that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia
3. The Mueller Investigation into "Russian meddling in 2016" quickly became a hunt for Trump's collusion with Russia (this was Strzok's "insurance policy" in case he won
4. Brennan and Clapper used the intel assets of the US to illegally spy on Trump, including illegally using the NSA database
5. The DOJ tried to setup removing Trump via the 25th Amendment.
6. The reasons for the "impeachment" stem from Brennan's plant "whistleblower", who worked with Schiff to write the "complaint" which should technically have been deemed "not credible" by the ICIG since it was based on 2nd hand evidence.
7. There may be more, but those are the ones that come to mind. Point being that the dems and the "deep state" have continuously attacked Trump.