{"id":38737,"date":"2020-01-21T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38737"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:32:07","slug":"enter-the-kangaroos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/enter-the-kangaroos\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Kangaroos!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having received his goose-stepping orders from criminal Resident Donald Trump, aka Fuhrer of the Republican Reich,\u00a0 Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch has released the Impeachment Rule he received from his Fuhrer’s lawyers.\u00a0 Thus, he issues the proclamation: “Enter the kangaroos!”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"0121GOP<\/p>\n

During the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Ken Starr, now one of the major new additions to Donald Trump\u2019s legal team<\/a>, argued that a president under investigation for criminal conduct must not be permitted to use governmental authority to embargo witnesses or hide the evidence against him. Starr\u2019s arguments before Congress as a prosecutor decades ago apply directly to the upcoming Senate trial of Donald Trump, and the assiduous efforts of Mitch McConnell and his fellow GOP Senators to engineer a sham trial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Start with McConnell, who for weeks has insisted that the Senate will \u201cexactly<\/a>\u201d follow the procedures employed during the trial of Bill Clinton. Under those rules, the Senate formally admitted into evidence<\/a> the entirety of the extremely comprehensive record assembled by Starr\u2019s team, and then decided whether to call additional witnesses after the parties presented their opening arguments and answered questions from the legislators.<\/p>\n

Given that Trump has schemed to withhold potentially key witnesses and evidence, leaving the record far from complete, following the \u201cClinton Rules\u201d in the Trump case makes little sense. Furthermore, on the eve of the trial Monday, McConnell laid out his proposed rules<\/a>, which do not follow a key provision of the Clinton procedures. Instead of automatically admitting the House\u2019s materials into evidence, McConnell proposes that the Senate vote<\/a> on which portions, if any, of the documents and testimony assembled by the House to admit. Under the McConnell Rules, which a Republican majority is near certain to pass, the Senate will literally be able to reach a verdict without admitting any of the materials incriminating the president into evidence<\/strong>.\u00a0 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Daily Beast<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n

This has me so upset, that I made a typo in the graphic.\u00a0 Here are three video clips to shed more light on this travesty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schumer calls on 4 GOP members to ‘resist McConnell’s cover-up’<\/a><\/p>\n