toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
Part of the problem lies in the fact that Pelosi never actually held a vote on wether to begin impeachment proceedings before they actually began.The Dems were stonewalled by a corrupt POTUS. Even his lawyer admits as much.The House is suppose to present the facts of the impeachment.
Why didn't they call witnesses for Trump in the House?
Simple answer and not many people are given the FACTS which is the fault of the GOP especially.
The Executive branch has a RIGHT to take the House witness requests to SCOTUS.
But the Democrats didn't want to have this go to SCOTUS for one reason. Time.
The Democrats wanted to speed up the impeachment process and since they had the majority in the house
there was no need.
So now the Senate does NOT need any more witnesses.
The evidence in their file sent to the Senate contained all the evidence they needed to find Trump guilty for impeachment. Remember Nancy's "Forever Impeached?" So why now the need to bring forth more witnesses? Are the Dems admitting their case is full of holes?
Alan Dershowitz called Trump corrupt in 2016 and said he could be corrupt as President - CNNPolitics
And as part of Trump's delaying tactics if the House had called Bolton,et.al. then the Executive branch would claim executive privilege.
At that point then the House would have taken the Executive branch to SCOTUS to determine "Executive privilege" was legal.
BUT the Democrats were anxious to get this done BEFORE the 2020 elections. Knowing that the general public would be very
disgusted by the waste of time and these same Democrats would be voted out of the majority in the House.
Bye bye impeachment!
Trump has not claimed executive privilege on anything regarding the impeachment inquiry yet, even for the people that were subpoenaed. The Trump administration could drag this out in court for years. Once this Congress ends next Jan, the subpoena's disappear.
Trump's lawyers are alleging that the court case could be settled by then, but Trump's other lawyers are in court delaying these rulings to the greatest degree possible.
This is not a way for a country to be run.
To be more specific, it was contingent upon the House to take a vote to subpoena the evidence, they never did. Instead, in keeping with their timetable, they tried to do an end around to speed things up with only the subcommittee on Intelligence voting for them~~ ~~ they haven't the authority (legal standing) to do that. On the advice of the Dept. of Justice, Trump's people rejected the subpoenas on the grounds that they were constitutionally invalid, with the offer to resolve the matter in the court, but instead, the House withdrew them, again to save time, then used that as basis for their hilarious "Article II." "Obstruction of Congress."
And they have the nerve to talk of "abuse of power."
Now they hope to get the Senate to finish their investigation for them after the investigation was formally concluded December 13!