GOP Impeachment Bloodbath As Trump And McConnell War Over Trial

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BY JASON EASLEY

GOP Impeachment Bloodbath As Trump And McConnell War Over Trial

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/10/trump-mcconnell-impeachment-trial.html

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Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell are locked in a bitter disagreement because Trump wants to turn the Senate impeachment trial into a circus.

CNN reported:

In conversations with the White House, the Kentucky Republican has made clear he hopes to end the trial as soon as he can, an effort to both get impeachment off his lap and protect his conference from potentially damaging votes should the process break out into partisan warfare. That will include a continuous whip count until McConnell feels he has the votes to acquit the President and end the show. He has even floated a 10-day minimum during these talks, one person said.

But the show is exactly what Trump wants. He’s made clear to advisers privately that rather than end the trial as quickly as possible, he is hoping for a dramatic event, according to two people familiar with his thinking. He wants Hunter Biden, Rep. Adam Schiff and the whistleblower to testify. He wants the witnesses to be live, not clips of taped depositions. And he’s hoping to turn it into a spectacle, which he thinks is his best chance to hurt Democrats in the election.

People close to the President say this is because he has been sitting back and watching as current and former aides testified for hours before lawmakers about his behavior that they described as inappropriate, problematic and potentially dangerous. Infuriated, Trump has been told he will have his day to defend himself soon, one person said.

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[Progressive Jones]

1. Regardless of what happens

Trump and the GOP are going to have their faces rubbed in this 24/7/until election day, presuming
Trump survives the impeachment proceedings.

[paleotn]

8. And that's the beauty of it..

Senators like Susan Collins, Cory Gardner and possibly even Thom Tillis are doomed no matter how they vote. This is a worst case scenario for many Senate Rethugs.

[SamKnause]

2. Fuck off you bloated useless piece of shit.

You had a chance to defend yourself.

Why didn't you testify under oath on live TV.

Because you are a liar.

You have no defense.

You are a liar.

[PSPS]

3. It's all about TV. More "reality show" governing.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. This is an amazing WOW !!!! WTF. Was just reading how McConnell will be driven

by what is good for him - keeping his job - keeping the majority. Not some crazy show to glorify dipshit.

Get the secret ballot now - that would be the greatest thing ever - to have trump create this ultimate reality episode and to be defeated at the end. Running up and down the street in pajamas cheering time.

[mackdaddy]

5. The Republicans may figure out they will be better off without the Orange Blob.

I still think that there is an outside chance that 20 Repub Senators may vote to remove the Shitstain.

The Republicans could get rid of the crazy bastard, and then play the victim card in the 2020 elections. This will be their best shot at maximizing the number of seats they retain, and give them their best shot at even POTUS next year with probably Romney. In the mean time they can keep packing the courts with their extremist right wing judges with Pence. The best outcome for the Republicans.

I know this is a very slim possibility, but so was Trumpkin "winning" with three million fewer votes.

[dchill]

11. That would assume that there are 20 GOP senators...

...who have not been compromised. I have doubt.

[paleotn]

6. Dude....it doesn't work that way.

[yaesu]

7. Oh, repugs will turn it into a circus regardless, the only quest is will it be a short or long one

[B Stieg]

9. As X goes to Spectacle...

[Pepsidog]

10. I would love to see these dopey Republicans try and question Schiff. He would eat them alive.

[SayItLoud]

12. Schiff would testify if tRUMP will also testify. Who do you think would blink first?

The scumbag tRUMP! Big hair no cattle.