{"id":38639,"date":"2020-01-08T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38639"},"modified":"2020-01-08T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:41:12","slug":"bought-bitch-moscow-mitch-has-votes-for-show-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/08\/bought-bitch-moscow-mitch-has-votes-for-show-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch Has Votes for Show Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since virtually all the news today seems focused on War Criminal Trump’s* Iran fiasco, I thought I’d switch back to the Senate’s most evil Republican, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch.  He has corralled the swing-state Republicans, who we hoped might demand witnesses, to goose-step behind Fuhrer Trump’s* impeachment kangaroo court to be conducted without witnesses or evidence.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he has the votes to set the ground rules of the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump<\/a> — without Democrats’ support. <\/p>\n

McConnell first made the remarks during a closed-door lunch with his fellow Republican senators on Capitol Hill, an official in the room told CNN, before McConnell made the announcement publicly during a news conference following the lunch. McConnell made clear he had no plans to move forward on a trial until the two articles of impeachment are sent to the Senate, as he has said publicly. <\/p>\n

“We have the votes once the impeachment trial has begun to pass a resolution essentially the same, very similar to the 100-to-nothing vote in the Clinton trial, which sets up what’s best described as a phase one,” McConnell said Tuesday. <\/p>\n

All McConnell needs is 51 senators — or a simple majority of the 100-member chamber — to vote to approve those ground rules. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah have said they back the leader’s approach<\/strong>…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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McConnell Rolls Out Trump Trial Plan Without Witnesses, Democrats Say It\u2019s A ‘Cover-Up’<\/a> <\/p>\n