Saturday, January 18, 2020

Does Trump Even have a Single Witness Who can Say He didn't do it?

   Are there any witnesses of Trump's innocence in the impeachment trial? Any, at all? Do any even exist? A witness for Trump would be one who was in position to know if the president was passing messages to Ukrainian officials and what the nature of those messages were and whether money was being withheld in exchange. A witness would be someone who could say, I was in position to know if any such act was committed, and there wasn't any such thing. If the president had dangled money in front of the Ukrainians -- if he had used his office this way -- I would have known. I'm here to tell you, it didn't happen.
  Secretaries of state, ambassadors, chiefs of staff, national security officers -- these are your people who know what is going on. Is there a one among all the crowd of them who can honestly say, This is all news to me. A never heard word one about it?
  Will Rudy Giuliani please come forward and testify under oath that he knew of no such arrangement?
  We must recall the words of Ambassador Gordon Sondland, and wonder. "Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret," he said. If everyone was in the loop, then that leaves no one who can testify that they hadn't heard anything about it.
  No witness in Trump's favor, at all? No one has stepped forward yet.
  Consider this: When Trump asks for witnesses, he wants someone like Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden has no inside knowledge on what communications there were between the president and Ukraine. Why do you call on someone to be a witness when clearly they are not a witness?
   The Republicans are crying bloody murder that none of their witnesses were allowed to testify in the House case. Truth be told, from what I understand, Pelosi desired for any person in position to know, to testify.
   No, that didn't include Hunter Biden. But, take anyone in the know, and Nancy would have been willing to put them on the stand.
  Republicans refused to allow such people to take the stand. They blocked them. Trump instructed them not to testify.
   And, then he cries that he wasn't allowed witnesses.
 

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