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Goodbye America!:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480526-gop-senators-believe-they-have-the-votes-to-block-witnesses
at140
(6,110 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)lame54
(35,293 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)although it's hard to believe right now.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)We all knew that he was going to be acquitted. Did you think otherwise?
lame54
(35,293 posts)Yes he is ultimately going to be acquitted
This vote is about witnesses and documents
Yesterday we turned the tables
We know they're vote
The dems job is to make that vote as shameful as possible
This win would be crucial for that
Fullduplexxx
(7,864 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Thugs will pay the price next November.
triron
(22,007 posts)Kaleva
(36,309 posts)Actual title:
"GOP senators believe they have the votes to block witnesses"
And it's just a few senators who think that and they admit they don't know for sure.
If I had to guess, no witnesses, he said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480526-gop-senators-believe-they-have-the-votes-to-block-witnesses
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)He's too stupid realize what's coming after he leaves office.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... then let everything go to crap for a day or two just to raise more awareness of RussiaPublican treason.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)First of all, it is inconceivable to me that this Senate could under essentially any circumstances actually vote to remove Trump from office. So this won't change that.
Two, if true that means at most only one or two Republicans running in swing states are willing to vote for witnesses, since we already know that Romney and Murkowski were among those most open to it and they aren't up for reelection. This can be used against Republicans running in swing states in 2020.
Three, it guts any claim of exoneration that Trump will make when the Senate fails to remove him, if the Senate refuses to even allow an eye witness to testify .
Four, much more evidence against Trump will be coming out anyway, both from Bolton's book etc. and from the ongoing legal actions against Rudy and Company. That's just what we know of. When that evidence is revealed, during the election campaign, it will further establish that Republicans were complicit in a coverup by shutting down the impeachment trial without seeking out the truth.
They are perhaps getting to choose their poison, but there is no good way out of this now for Republicans.
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)Their treachery recorded forever.