Live Thread: Impeachment Trial Day 8

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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QUESTION 38, from Blumenthal to Trump team:

Did anyone in the WH or outside the WH tell anyone in the WH Counsel's office that publication of the Bolton book would be politically problematic for the president?


Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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5m
(Another cross-aisle question, which appears to put the president's lawyers on the spot.)

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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QUESTION 39, from Cruz and Moran to House managers:

An Aug 26 letter from ICIG to DNI, discussing whistleblower, the IG spoke of an "arguable political bias." Did he work with Biden? Was he involved in conditioning loan guarantees in Ukraine?

Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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2m
(This cross-aisle question gives Schiff an opportunity to explain why whistleblower's identity should be protected, but he's not directly answering it.)

[ArneFufkin]

Good God, I am beyond tired of Schiff's Drama Queen perfidy.

[EdinVA]

Good God, I am beyond tired of Schiff's Drama Queen perfidy.

Isn't that the truth.. Used car salesman all the way

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Victor Warden
@lightning7876
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Bahahahahaha! #Bullschiff wont answer a direct question about whether the “whistleblower” worked for or had anything to do with Joe Biden. Basically, we wont answer, bcuz it would endanger the “whistleblower” life....what a crock!

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Jonathan Alter
@jonathanalter
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1m
Schiff just shredded Cruz et al on the whistleblower--and used Grassley, Burr and even Nunes to do so.

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Rep Andy Biggs
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
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3m
Adam Schiff once promised the American people that Congress would hear from the "whistleblower."

Then he and his staff got caught coordinating with this individual before the complaint had gone public.

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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7m
Schiff claims he doesn't know who the whistleblower is, and repeats his insistence that he hasn't met him.

Committee staff did not see the complaint, Schiff insists, until night before hearing with ICIG.

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Lee Zeldin
@RepLeeZeldin
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1m
There’s a ZERO percent chance Adam Schiff doesn’t know the identity of the whistleblower.

How does he lie so easily? It’s really quite remarkable. He’s prosecuting the Pres of the United States in front of the Chief Justice & these lies just keep flowing right out of his mouth.

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Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
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4m
BREAKING: Schiff just dodged question submitted in Senate trial asking if "whistleblower" worked with Biden

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Lee Zeldin
@RepLeeZeldin
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1m
There’s a ZERO percent chance Adam Schiff doesn’t know the identity of the whistleblower.

How does he lie so easily? It’s really quite remarkable. He’s prosecuting the Pres of the United States in front of the Chief Justice & these lies just keep flowing right out of his mouth.

Because the Press has his back.

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Brit Hume
@brithume
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3m
That’s not what I heard him say. What I took away is that an action taken in the public interest cannot be the basis of impeachment because that action is also helpful to a president’s re-election prospects.




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Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
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Anything the president does to keep his office is in the national interest, Dershowitz testifies https://

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Rep Andy Biggs
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
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10m
Adam Schiff received 3 Pinocchios about his whistleblower claims
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"Does the whistleblower who filed a complaint about @realDonaldTrump
 have a “statutory right” to remain anonymous, as Schiff claims?

It’s not a right spelled out in any statute."

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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3m
QUESTION 40, from Whitehouse, Blumenthal, Booker, et. al., to House managers:

What adverse inferences should we draw from the president's refusal to allow witnesses to testify?

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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2m
QUESTION 41, from Thune to Trump team:

Would you please respond to arguments or assertions the House managers just made?

[ArneFufkin]

Isn't that the truth.. Used car salesman all the way

One of the worst politicians ... humans ... I've observed.

Can you imagine one of the defendants he railroaded when he was a US Attorney?   This man is absolutely amoral.

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ABC News
@ABC
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Collins and Murkowski ask if Trump mentioned the Bidens in relation to corruption in Ukraine to Ukrainian or WH officials before Biden entered the race.

WH counsel: "It wasn't thoroughly pursued in the record so I can't point to something in the record"

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That's it!   Seen enough!!

What I want to see now are some jack-booted soldiers in black take the SOB away.

...er...sorry....

(Schiff)

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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1m
QUESTION 42, from Shaheen to House managers:

Did Mick Mulvaney waive executive privilege in his Oct 17th press conference?

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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2m
QUESTION 41, from Thune to Trump team:

Would you please respond to arguments or assertions the House managers just made?

Translation:  "Can you please refute Adam Schiff's last lie?"

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Sean Davis
@seanmdav
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19m
Question from Cruz to Schiff: The ICIG said the anti-Trump whistleblower had political bias in favor of Biden. Did the whistleblower work for or with Biden on anything related to Burisma or the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor?

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Elise Stefanik
@EliseStefanik
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22m
What a stunning turn of events today to hear Adam Schiff declare from the well of the United States Senate that it is impeachable for a sitting President to allow the Department of Justice to investigate a political rival’s campaign
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2016. Crossfire Hurricane.

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Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
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50s
QUESTION 43, from Murkowski, Young and Crapo to both sides:

Constitution doesn't specify a standard of proof for impeachment. What standard of proof should apply here?

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Burgess Everett
@burgessev
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Per source: Rand Paul is not being allowed to ask his question about the origins of the House impeachment. Unclear what the exact question is and what the issue is with it

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Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
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50s
Rumors swirling on Hill that Sen. Rand Paul was prevented from asking a question he submitted for House managers & he is furious. Paul last year called for subpoenaing the "whistleblower," whom he named as Eric Ciaramella, to testify about his coordination with Schiff's office