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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/01/25/democrats-trump-0-documents.htmlPosted on Sat, Jan 25th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Democrats Drop 28,578-Pages Of Trial Record On The Senate As Trump Introduces 0
Democrats have the evidence in the impeachment case, as they turned over 28,578 pages of trial record while Trump introduced zero documents in his defense.
According to a statement provided to PoliticusUSA by the Democratic House impeachment managers:
The record delivered today presents a mountain of evidence showing the President has committed the impeachable offenses that the House has charged Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress and he should be removed from office. The factual and legal record laid out by the House Managers has yet to be substantively rebutted by President Trump or his lawyers, who have instead sought to hide behind novel and frivolous legal theories.
In addition to the public trial record filed today, the House Managers also previously filed with the Secretary of the Senate a non-public classified document which was admitted into evidence and has been made available to Senators for consideration during trial.
Trump bragged earlier this week that he has all the evidence, but none of it was offered during the first day of his impeachment defense. In fact, Trumps lawyers offered no new documents in his own defense on Saturday.
Trumps defense is Russian conspiracy theories, Russian propaganda, and lies straight from the presidents Twitter.
Whats happening in the Senate isnt a trial. Trumps lawyers are ignoring the evidence and spending their time spinning lies and conspiracies.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,129 posts)now. History will have available to it for future generations the obvious and blatant disregard of the rule of law, the rule of evidence being ignored totally. It will be hard for future generations of republicans to ignore this massive amount of evidence. Good!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)patphil
(6,180 posts)But, I wouldn't count on any Republican Senators reading any of it.
Senator Kennedy (R - Louisiana) has already indicated that his Republican colleagues aren't interested in reading anything related to the impeachment trial.
Incredible, huh! This is the most important event in their career's and they can't be bothered to look at the evidence.
Smells like collusion to defraud the trial process to me.
Patrick Phillips
RVN VET71
(2,691 posts)GOP Senators will never read evidence that runs counter to their Trump-instilled alternate truths. They didn't listen, most of them, to the Democratic managers. They know they're under orders to acquit, so why waste time listening and reading?