Will millions of
Americans tune in to watch Day Three of House impeachment managers repeating
themselves endlessly and replaying clips of videos that are deliberately edited
to remove all context?
Of course not. Senators have been seen dozing off, passing
notes, making paper airplanes, playing with fidget spinners and stress balls.
This whole thing
revolves around a temporary hold on a foreign aid package that was
released by the deadline and turned into some sinister act of treason, bribery
and extortion.
I think it is fair to
say the House Democrats have painted themselves into one hell of a corner.
Their case against the President is neither “overwhelming” nor “uncontested”. Democrats rigged the
House impeachment proceedings. They rode
rough-shod over witness lists, leaked selectively to complicit press poodles
and rushed head-long to indict President Trump declaring breathlessly that
every day the President is not impeached is another day the country is in
peril.
The bipartisan support
they hung their hat on never materialized.
They got squat from the Mueller Report.
The FISA Court just yesterday officially admitted that half of the
secret surveillance applications it sought to spy on the Trump campaign were
illegitimate. There is no majority
support for impeachment. They haven’t
moved the needle. There has been no proof
of high crimes and misdemeanors. And now
their worst fears are about to be realized:
a disastrous and thoroughly embarrassing Senate acquittal.
On Saturday, to quote
Eddie Murphy from the movie 48 Hrs, there’s a new sheriff in town.
The seven House
impeachment managers are about to cede the floor to the President’s legal team—perhaps
for three full days.
UPDATE: The attorneys general of 21 states have come forward with a blistering rebuke of the impeachment of President Trump, asserting in a letter to the U.S. Senate that it "establishes a dangerous historical precedent" and urged the chamber to reject the impeachment articles.
UPDATE: The attorneys general of 21 states have come forward with a blistering rebuke of the impeachment of President Trump, asserting in a letter to the U.S. Senate that it "establishes a dangerous historical precedent" and urged the chamber to reject the impeachment articles.
"If not expressly
repudiated by the Senate, the theories animating both Articles will set a
precedent that is entirely contrary to the Framers' design and ruinous to the
most important governmental structure protections contained in our
Constitution: the separation of powers," they wrote.
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