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Assuming that somewhere in America — that facts still matter.
Assuming that the 70% of Independents and 70% of Republicans — really do care about evidence and witnesses …
I submit for your consideration, these facts — along with some note-worthy bits logic, and still largely unexamined, but important evidence:
by Calvin Woodward, APNews.com — Jan 25, 2020
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TRUMP lawyer PAT CIPOLLONE: “Why would you lock everybody out of it from the president’s side? ... It’s evidence they themselves don’t believe in the facts of their case.”
THE FACTS: Trump wasn’t locked out. He rejected an invitation from the House Judiciary Committee to participate in the hearings that ultimately produced the articles of impeachment.
On Nov. 29, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., sent a letter to Trump “to determine if your counsel will seek to exercise the special privileges set forth in the Judiciary Committee’s Impeachment Procedures ... and participate in the upcoming impeachment proceedings. In particular, please provide the Committee with notice of whether your counsel intends to participate, specifying which of the privileges your counsel seeks to exercise. ...”
On Dec. 6, Cipollone signaled Trump would not participate, telling Nadler in a letter that “House Democrats have wasted enough of America’s time with this charade.” Trump and his team did not take part.
The first round of hearings, by the House Intelligence Committee, was not opened to participation by Trump’s team. Those hearings resembled the investigative phase of criminal cases, when the subject of the investigation is ordinarily not brought in. Trump complained about not being invited, then said no when the next panel invited him.
The deconstruction of the Trump Defense Team arguments continues, in this Fact Check from the AP. Making it clear to anyone, not predisposed to cover-up for the extortion scheme of the National Bully — that Trump has no actual defense.
What he has is a bunch of sycophantic fanboys (and gals) willing to say anything to excuse his unpresidential abuses of power — while in the process, dissembling the principles of the Constitution, all so Putin can put his thumb on the NEXT Election too.
Trump’s ineptitude for the position he now holds (with Foreign assistance), and Trump’s contempt for that position, and his ever-present corrupt intent — is on display for all to see, if any of the Trump fan-club members were indeed inclined in the least, to really get to bottom of it, to examine Trump’s intentions — unfiltered.
… If they really cared about ever the hearing the Truth, that they all pretend to care about, before the all-important TVee cameras:
In recording Trump asks how long Ukraine can resist Russians
by Zeke Miller, Collen Long, Mike Balsamo and Lynn Berry, APNews.com — Jan 25, 2020
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Just a few minutes into the conversation, Trump can be heard railing against former President George W. Bush, China, the World Trade Organization and the European Union. “Bush, he gets us into the war, he gets us into the Middle East, that was a beauty,” Trump says. “We’re in the Middle East right now for $7 trillion.” He later says: “China rips us off for years and we owe them $2 trillion.” The president blames the WTO because it “allowed China to do what they’re doing.”
“The WTO is worse,” than China, he declares. “China didn’t become great until the WTO.”
Trump also seemed to question the U.S. involvement in the Korean War: “How we ever got involved in South Korea in the first place, tell me about it. How we ended up in a Korean War.”
[… Trump-unfiltered continues ...]
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THIS -- is the Putin Stooge that the GOP is mindlessly and reflexively protecting:
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With regards to “that server” conspiracy Trump is rambling on about (for all the world to see):
Of course, if Trump had a curiosity of a toddler, he would have already found out the answers, to his own nonsensical questions.
Spoiler alert: The FBI already has complete and throughout images of the servers in question:
[...] the FBI took images of those servers, engaged in memory dumps of connected devices and collected network logs, gathering enough forensic evidence to conduct their analysis.
Most experts argue that the FBI’s forensic methods produced superior evidence than would be obtained from unplugging the machine and hauling it away, which would have caused important evidence resident in memory to disappear.
www.csoonline.com
… Assuming of course, anyone of the Trump-defenders really cared about getting to the Truth.
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