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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:10 PM Jan 2020

Pelosi: Trump can't be acquitted if he doesn't have a trial that includes witnesses and documents

Felicia Sonmez ✔ @feliciasonmez (Washington Post)

Question to Pelosi via the Post's own @pkcapitol: Do you think Trump will be emboldened if he gets acquitted?

Pelosi: "He will not be acquitted." She argues that Trump can't be acquitted if he doesn't have a trial that includes witnesses and documents.

10:20 AM - Jan 30, 2020


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Pelosi: Trump can't be acquitted if he doesn't have a trial that includes witnesses and documents (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Jan 2020 OP
Agreed . . . Iliyah Jan 2020 #1
Except he will be. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 2020 #2
Ummmmmmmmmm no. . . Iliyah Jan 2020 #3
Unfortunately, yes. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 2020 #5
Do they get to claim a mis-trial once they do not have jmg257 Jan 2020 #4
True that Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #6
we live in a banana republic RANDYWILDMAN Jan 2020 #7
So what? 75% want a FAIR trial and russiablicans won't allow it. Lock him up. Jan 2020 #8
So what would we call it instead? He was let off? Whitewashed? tinrobot Jan 2020 #9
They impeached him for Obstruction on the Ukraine stuff...can they next impeach him on cbdo2007 Jan 2020 #10
For all their lock her up chants malaise Jan 2020 #11

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Agreed . . .
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:11 PM
Jan 2020

A fair trial must include witnesses and evidence. She is absolutely correct. Even Senator Harris said the same thing.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,491 posts)
2. Except he will be.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jan 2020

We can call it unfair and a sham, as he has called the whole affair, and neither side will be right. His impeachment was neither unfair nor a sham and his acquittal will stand as such.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. Ummmmmmmmmm no. . .
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:59 PM
Jan 2020

At least there were witnesses, documents and evidence on both sides during the impeachment. She is correct and the GOPers know it but do not care.

Unfortunately we must counter and put forth the truth. I've been told all my life that truth shall prevail, and I do believe it.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,491 posts)
5. Unfortunately, yes.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:27 PM
Jan 2020

We can shake our fists and scream about it but he will be considered acquitted under the constitution. I’m afraid quaint phrases are meaningless in the face of reality. They are ending our Republic by doing this.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
4. Do they get to claim a mis-trial once they do not have
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 02:59 PM
Jan 2020

Enough votes and a decision is handed down?

Maybe call mulligan?


Strange point of view.

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,672 posts)
7. we live in a banana republic
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:35 PM
Jan 2020

if this is any way aquittal......F me the 53 do not repesent america, they represent the ignorance of america.

Lock him up.

(6,928 posts)
8. So what? 75% want a FAIR trial and russiablicans won't allow it.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:41 PM
Jan 2020

Let's pound THAT on THEM.

Only a few swing states to win.

tinrobot

(10,895 posts)
9. So what would we call it instead? He was let off? Whitewashed?
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:46 PM
Jan 2020

Trying to think of something that will resonate.

cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)
10. They impeached him for Obstruction on the Ukraine stuff...can they next impeach him on
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:16 PM
Jan 2020

Obstruction from Impeachment???

He is clearly obstructing the impeachment process, which is not included in the current charges of obstruction he is currently being impeached for.

malaise

(268,966 posts)
11. For all their lock her up chants
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:18 PM
Jan 2020

it is Hillary Clinton who was cleared over and over - hearing after hearing, witness after witness.

Let them go fuck themselves every which way -Pissed does not describe me.

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