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babylonsister

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Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:53 PM Jan 2020

Trump's Lawyers Are Threatening Republican Senators On Witnesses

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/01/30/trump-lawyers-gop-senators.html

Posted on Thu, Jan 30th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump’s Lawyers Are Threatening Republican Senators On Witnesses


Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Trump’s lawyers are threatening Republican Senators on the witness vote.

Leader Schumer said:

I believe Senate Republicans and the president’s team are worried about the vote. Yesterday Mr. Sekulow said that if the senate elects to subpoena witnesses and documents, the president’s team will force all sorts of manner of delay, to take the managers to court, assert privilege, drag it on forever. It was a shocking admission from Mr. Sekulow, revealing how concerned the president’s team are, how afraid they are. Of course, his argument isn’t true.

There’s no reason for endless delays. The documents are compiled. One key witness has already said he’d testify. We’d expect the others to comply if subpoenaed and questions of privilege can be sorted out right here in the senate. Mr. Sekulow’s argument was nothing more than a threat, a shakedown. He told Senators to their faces that the president’s team will do whatever it possibly can to prevent them from seeing the truth. It reminds you of something the president would do or say, and it should offend my Republican colleagues just as much as it offends us Democrats.





The Threat To Delay The Trial Is A Bluff

Sekulow’s threat was a sign of a legal team with no defense strategy. Trump’s lawyers have been threatening Senators with the prospect of a long impeachment trial, but the threat is a bluff because it is Trump who is being harmed by this trial. Trump’s reelection has been derailed by impeachment. It’s Trump who is worried about a long trial.

The vulnerable Republican Senators who buy into this threat can kiss their seats goodbye in the fall. The best chance that endangered Republican incumbents have is to allow witnesses, and then vote for acquittal.

Republicans in tight reelection races who vote to block witnesses are potentially voting themselves out of the Senate in November.
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Trump's Lawyers Are Threatening Republican Senators On Witnesses (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2020 OP
You could see coming a million miles away. Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #1
And then the Impeached One BillyBobBrilliant Jan 2020 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. You could see coming a million miles away.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:02 PM
Jan 2020

But,hey,did they get their Bribes(campaign Checks)via the Orange Anus Lawyers?

Most just knew the fix was in. The Rethugs are gambling their Base will never figure out just went down or that the story shelf life will only be two or three days.

BillyBobBrilliant

(805 posts)
2. And then the Impeached One
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:15 PM
Jan 2020

will have to give his SOTU address from the viewpoint of an 'accused,' not an 'acquitted.'

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