JimofPennsylvan
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House Democrats have made an offer open until this Friday to the Trump Administration to accept to participate in the House Judiciary Impeachment Hearings. The Trump administration should accept this offer and pursue providing evidence in three areas to help establish that this whole impeachment effort is a disgrace that if it ends up with issuance of articles of impeachment will be an historic disgrace which weakens our Democracy by lowering the standard of impeachment from the constitutional requirement of the President having committed a very serious crime to is there sufficient political animosity toward the President in the country to make it politically palatable to do an impeachment thus dramatically undermining the country's election process for the Presidency!
The President's team should bring in a panel of esteemed law professors to testify to the fact that offering a White House meeting to a foreign leader cannot be the subject matter of a bribery or extortion charge. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff repeatedly strained himself getting witnesses in his committee to call such a White House meeting an official act. Chairman Schiff a very shrewd person knows that there is probably case law that stands for the proposition of law that the doing of an official act can be the subject matter of a bribe. But I believe and I believe it would be the optimal legal analysis that such an official act must be something of unquestionable material value and out of the ordinary like issuing a contract, granting a permit or license or not charging someone with a crime or finding someone guilty or not guilty of a crime. Offering a White House meeting is a bridge too far it doesn't meet the legal threshold! On another day the Trump team should bring in a panel of Judges to discuss the crime of Obstruction of Justice the Democrats here are concocting a crime which the facts don't support. America is a free country people have the right to defend themselves and their reputation through the use of speech and that includes the most aggressive attack on the character of witnesses coming out against you. Some of the Democrat's witnesses have suspect credibility this State Department employee David Holmes was just too happy to testify this guy seemed like he was in heaven having his fifteen minutes of fame in the House hearing testifying about the overheard telephone call between Ambassador Sondland and President Trump; I don't trust him to have not exaggerated or embellished what he heard during that lunch occurrence. Thirdly, the Trump team should bring in a panelist of esteemed historians to testify that America's history is extensively littered with President's embarking on policies where they put their own personal political interests over the interests of the American people and give an abundance of examples; if such becomes the standard of impeachment those responsible for establishing this precedent will be making America's form of government less stable! The Trump team should vet all these panelists well you don't want on these panels anti-Trump witnesses that will sabotage the President's case if they get a chance!
The Trump team should not pursue calling former Vice-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Such a calling should definitely be done in the Senate if these proceedings get this far because they offer relevant evidence. Joe Biden is a great American but he made a Mount Everest level of mistake in the Ukraine matter he should have recused himself in this dealing with the Ukraine government over corruption given that his son was on the board of a Ukrainian Oligarch's company where it is patently obvious there was corrupt double dealing by the Oligarch VP Biden should have let Secretary of State John Kerry handle this whole issue, it was an ethical lapse of monumental size! Further because the stakes are soo large for the country when these witnesses are called the lawyers are going to have to follow a scorched earth policy turning over every rock that could offer evidence of corruption it will be outstandingly embarrassing for these two gentleman; the real jury in this impeachment case is the American public and publicly dismembering these witnesses at this early juncture in the process may turn the American Public against the President especially considering that even most of Joe Biden's detractors have to admit Joe is a very nice person which will be a real turn off seeing him publicly slow grilled!
The President's team should bring in a panel of esteemed law professors to testify to the fact that offering a White House meeting to a foreign leader cannot be the subject matter of a bribery or extortion charge. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff repeatedly strained himself getting witnesses in his committee to call such a White House meeting an official act. Chairman Schiff a very shrewd person knows that there is probably case law that stands for the proposition of law that the doing of an official act can be the subject matter of a bribe. But I believe and I believe it would be the optimal legal analysis that such an official act must be something of unquestionable material value and out of the ordinary like issuing a contract, granting a permit or license or not charging someone with a crime or finding someone guilty or not guilty of a crime. Offering a White House meeting is a bridge too far it doesn't meet the legal threshold! On another day the Trump team should bring in a panel of Judges to discuss the crime of Obstruction of Justice the Democrats here are concocting a crime which the facts don't support. America is a free country people have the right to defend themselves and their reputation through the use of speech and that includes the most aggressive attack on the character of witnesses coming out against you. Some of the Democrat's witnesses have suspect credibility this State Department employee David Holmes was just too happy to testify this guy seemed like he was in heaven having his fifteen minutes of fame in the House hearing testifying about the overheard telephone call between Ambassador Sondland and President Trump; I don't trust him to have not exaggerated or embellished what he heard during that lunch occurrence. Thirdly, the Trump team should bring in a panelist of esteemed historians to testify that America's history is extensively littered with President's embarking on policies where they put their own personal political interests over the interests of the American people and give an abundance of examples; if such becomes the standard of impeachment those responsible for establishing this precedent will be making America's form of government less stable! The Trump team should vet all these panelists well you don't want on these panels anti-Trump witnesses that will sabotage the President's case if they get a chance!
The Trump team should not pursue calling former Vice-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Such a calling should definitely be done in the Senate if these proceedings get this far because they offer relevant evidence. Joe Biden is a great American but he made a Mount Everest level of mistake in the Ukraine matter he should have recused himself in this dealing with the Ukraine government over corruption given that his son was on the board of a Ukrainian Oligarch's company where it is patently obvious there was corrupt double dealing by the Oligarch VP Biden should have let Secretary of State John Kerry handle this whole issue, it was an ethical lapse of monumental size! Further because the stakes are soo large for the country when these witnesses are called the lawyers are going to have to follow a scorched earth policy turning over every rock that could offer evidence of corruption it will be outstandingly embarrassing for these two gentleman; the real jury in this impeachment case is the American public and publicly dismembering these witnesses at this early juncture in the process may turn the American Public against the President especially considering that even most of Joe Biden's detractors have to admit Joe is a very nice person which will be a real turn off seeing him publicly slow grilled!