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McConnell discounts quick dismissal of Trump impeachment articles: 'We'll have to have a trial'
By Jordain Carney - 11/13/19 02:44 PM EST

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) brushed aside a question on Wednesday about trying to quickly dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Trump, noting the chamber would have to have a trial.

"I don't think there's any question that we have to take up the matter. The rules of impeachment are very clear, we'll have to have a trial. My own view is that we should give people the opportunity to put the case on," McConnell told reporters.


He added about the potential timeframe for an impeachment trial, "on the issue of how long it goes on, it's really kind of up to the Senate. People will have to conclude are they learning something new? At some point we'll get to an end."

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Since Senate Rs won't be hobbled by Schifftyroo's witness approval rule, the Dems have more to fear from an actual trial than from a quick dismissal.
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If the House didn’t follow the rules why does McConnell feel compelled to follow the rules? Won’t this  just lend legitimacy to a fraudulent process?

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The Senate could vote rules, like say:  Each side gets 6 witneses, and two hours of testimony.

Then vote to dismiss.

IOW one day, done, fini, das ist alles.

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Since Senate Rs won't be hobbled by Schifftyroo's witness approval rule, the Dems have more to fear from an actual trial than from a quick dismissal.

@PeteS in CA

Truth to tell,at this point the Dims might as well go ahead and vote for Trump themselves as put on a trial.

Gee,I wonder what the effect of a public trial would be on undecided voters when the trial tanks and is shown to be a farce a month or so before the actual election?

I hope Schiff strokes out when he finds out he is on Trumps Christmas Card List.
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If the House didn’t follow the rules why does McConnell feel compelled to follow the rules? Won’t this  just lend legitimacy to a fraudulent process?

@skeeter

I hope he schedules the trial for Sept of 2020. Timing is everything.
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I hope Schiff strokes out when he finds out he is on Trumps Christmas Card List.

 :silly:  888high58888  :silly:
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

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If the House didn’t follow the rules why does McConnell feel compelled to follow the rules? Won’t this  just lend legitimacy to a fraudulent process?

It lends legitimacy to a clearly corrupt process. McConnell should summarily move to dismiss. It would be a mistake to do otherwise.

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It lends legitimacy to a clearly corrupt process. McConnell should summarily move to dismiss. It would be a mistake to do otherwise.

@aligncare

Legitimacy doesn't matter. This is politics,and public perception is the only thing that matters with an election coming up. Left to their own devices,the DNC and the RNC pull in roughly the same number of votes if you include all the dead people and illegal aliens that vote Dim.

This means it is Steve and Suzy Sixpack who will decide the next president,and Steven and Susie only pay attention to politics the last 30-60 days of the campaigns. Even then they vote according to who has the "cutest" wife,the "best" hair cut,or who can fake sincerity the best. If Mr.Magoo were to refuse to play this thing out,the Dims would be shrieking about how he did it because he knew Trump was guilty of child molesting and cheating with the wife of the Ukrainian President,kicking puppies,and Bogarting joints. The last two alone could cause him to lose.

Nope,better to hold the hearings and let them drag out as close to election day as possible,and then have them tossed by the vote of congress. The Dims will shriek anyhow,but the Republicans will be able to truthfully claim Trump was found not guilty.
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The Senate could vote rules, like say:  Each side gets 6 witneses, and two hours of testimony.

Then vote to dismiss.

IOW one day, done, fini, das ist alles.

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You should take a nap.  You'll feel better.

When Clinton was impeached the GOP controlled Senate voted 100-0 not to hear any more testimony.