Democratic senators dumbstruck, Trump wins
It’s over.
Democrats may not realize it’s over, but it’s done. Trump wins. Again.
The Republican-controlled Senate’s near-party-line vote against new witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial was a predictable conclusion to a drama ginned up by Democrats and their media accomplices.
Despite a carefully-plotted strategy to leak out details of John Bolton’s new book in which he implicates the president in a pressure plan to withhold aid to Ukraine, not enough Republican senators took the bait.
Just two moderate Republican senators with New England ties, Maine’s Susan Collins and Utah’s Mitt Romney — the former Massachusetts governor, of course — sided with Democrats in pushing for new witnesses in the trial.
Now the only thing left is the vote to acquit Trump, but we won’t get that until Wednesday.
Just long enough to drag the drama past the Iowa caucuses and the State of the Union speech next week.
Poor Amy Klobuchar. Just as she’s moving up in the polls in Iowa, she’s forced to sit on the sidelines in Washington for a few more days, while Democrats in denial try to delay and muck up things even more. It’s possible that Klobuchar, along with Warren and Sanders, will have to be at the Capitol all day Monday, hours before Iowans gather to caucus.
This could be a big blow to Sanders and Warren, and a big advantage to Joe Biden. Unlike primaries, candidates can actually show up to caucuses to make their final arguments. But now Warren and Sanders may lose precious hours stuck to their seats while House managers and the Trump defense team make their final arguments.
The liberal media were fuming after the late Friday vote, reacting with horror and disbelief, and shaming Republican senators who sided against witnesses.
How could the Senate do this? Don’t they know John Bolton was sitting there waiting to take down the president?
Can you imagine what the media reaction will be when the Senate acquits Trump?
Democratic senators were just as dumbstruck, with some planning to submit a series of amendments to drag out the impeachment trial as long as possible.
Well, they can try to delay as much as they want, but there’s no drama left. Whatever fake suspense was left in this trial is done.
On Wednesday, the trial will officially conclude with acquittal, an outcome we already knew months ago.
Trump may have wanted to conclude the trial today — so he could crow about his acquittal during his State of the Union — but you can’t have everything.
from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/2vFtLzL
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