On the Bidens, Schiff Opened the Door By Andrew C. McCarthy

[mystery-ak]

   On the Bidens, Schiff Opened the Door
By Andrew C. McCarthy

January 22, 2020 9:08 PM

If they have to testify, they have the Democrats’ chief impeachment manager to thank.

You opened the door.

Trial lawyers live in fear of that phrase.

When a trial starts, both sides know what the allegations are. Both have had enough discovery to know what the adversary will try to prove. Just as significantly, both know what their own vulnerabilities are. A litigator spends his pretrial time not just laying the groundwork for getting his own evidence admitted by the court; each side works just as hard on motions to exclude embarrassing or incriminating testimony — evidence that would be damaging to that side’s position but that a court may be persuaded to exclude because it is not clearly relevant.

For an advocate, it is a coup when the judge rules that harmful testimony is excluded. But such rulings always come with a warning label: Don’t open the door. That is, don’t do anything that makes the otherwise irrelevant evidence relevant.

President Trump’s impeachment trial has a Biden door. Adam Schiff has thrown it wide open.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-trial-adam-schiff-opened-door-on-biden-witness-testimony/

[sneakypete]

I hope nobody thinks he gives a Schiff about the Bidens. He cares nothing about anyone other than himself,and he is desperate to "win" this,or at a minimum,not come out looking like a loser. He will gladly throw the Bidens and anyone else under the bus if he thinks it will help promote him.

[Cyber Liberty]

McCarthy is correct.  By claiming the President asked Ukraine to fabricate dirt on Biden, the President's team is allowed to bring up evidence that the resulting investigation was not a fabrication, but a query into genuine wrongdoing.  The more the Rats claim the "phone call" was to cheat the 2020 election, the stronger the case for calling the Bitemes.  Both of them, and the other children of Rat politicians too.