{"id":40766,"date":"2020-01-14T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40766"},"modified":"2020-01-14T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T22:47:31","slug":"let-the-trial-begin-with-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40766","title":{"rendered":"Let the trial begin … with witnesses!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It looks as though the U.S. Senate is going to convene a trial next week. The president of the United States is going to stand trial on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress.<\/p>\n

The trial of Donald Trump isn’t a purely legal proceeding. It’s damn close to one, though. It’s close enough to a courtroom trial that there needs to be witnesses called who have something important to add to the issue at hand.<\/p>\n

That issue is: What happened precisely<\/em> during that “perfect phone call” that Trump had with the president of Ukraine? Then-national security adviser John Bolton was present when Trump talked to his Ukrainian colleague; so was acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. The Senate needs to hear from them. What they did hear? Did the president ask a foreign government to interfere in our 2020 election? Did he withhold military aid to Ukraine until it announced an investigation into Joe Biden, a potential Trump foe?<\/p>\n

The nation does not know what they know. We have not heard it from them directly. I am one American who wants to know what they heard. I want to hear ’em say it out loud, in public, under oath.<\/p>\n

Will that occur? Will the Senate summon them? We don’t know.<\/p>\n

In return, of course, Trump wants the Senate to call Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, who worked for the energy company for a handsome sum of money. There are allegations of “corruption” involving Hunter Biden. Except that prosecutors have said time and again that the younger Biden did nothing illegal.<\/p>\n

The president also wants to call House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. Why? Beats the livin’ malarkey out of me!<\/p>\n

Let’s not turn this trial into a sideshow. It is serious. It is a sober event. It should be conducted with utmost decorum and dignity.<\/p>\n

I am awaiting the start of this trial. I hope we get to hear from Bolton and others with direct knowledge of what happened \u2026 allegedly!<\/p>\n

We need a serious trial. Not a circus.<\/p>\n\n

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It looks as though the U.S. Senate is going to convene a trial next week. The president of the United States is going to stand trial on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress. The trial of Donald Trump isn’t a purely legal proceeding. It’s damn close to one, though. It’s close enough … Continue reading Let the trial begin … with witnesses!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7014,1424,8937,2253,2505,6747,8655,5045,5051],"class_list":["post-40766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-adam-schiff","tag-donald-trump","tag-hunter-biden","tag-impeachment","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-bolton","tag-senate-trial","tag-us-house","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40768,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions\/40768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}