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GOP senators in 2016 meeting discussed need to remove Ukraine's Shokin.
They also understood that "loan guarantees were being used (by Biden) as leverage to bring it about."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Biden's call for Shokin's ouster is the premise of Trump's defense.

Trump says pressuring Ukraine to investigate his 2020 political rival is reasonable because Biden may have been acting "corruptly" in pushing Shokin out.
So at least some Republican senators (now jurors) have known from the start that Trump's call to investigate Biden was unfounded and, yes, debunked.
At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in March 2016, Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state under President Barack Obama, testified about efforts to oust Shokin.
Nuland noted it was a U.S. priority to secure a "new prosecutor general who is committed” to “indicting and prosecuting the corrupt.”

Nuland also said the $ 1 billion loan guarantee was pegged in part on “ensuring that the prosecutor general’s office gets cleaned up."
Here's hearing link.

GOP sens listed at top: @SenatorRisch @marcorubio @CoryGardner @sendavidperdue @RandPaul @SenJohnBarrasso

in addition to Dems: @BenCardinforMD @SenatorMenendez @SenatorShaheen @ChrisCoonsforDE @ChrisMurphyCT @timkaine @EdMarkey

foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
@SenatorRisch @marcorubio @CoryGardner @sendavidperdue @RandPaul @SenJohnBarrasso @BenCardinforMD @SenatorMenendez @SenatorShaheen @ChrisCoonsforDE @ChrisMurphyCT @timkaine @EdMarkey h/t to @ThePlumLineGS for writing about all of this first:

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Heidi Przybyla
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Trump is being acquitted primarily on the premise that the House process was unfair to him.

Your guide (THREAD)👉

1. 17 witnesses w knowledge of Trump's withholding of Ukraine aid testified. The GOP called, and got, Amb Volker & Tim Morrison.
2. Trump blocked anyone in a position to exonerate him & R's made no attempt to call them: Mulvaney, Blair, Pompeo.

3. The GOP witnesses denied -- the whistleblower & Hunter Biden -- have nothing to offer on Trump's motives in withholding Ukraine aid. They are immaterial.
Sen. Cornyn, T-Texas, even said this about Hunter.

4. Lots of scorn for Schiff for failing to "do his job" and call Bolton. House Dems badly wanted to call Bolton but Bolton wouldn't do it. He said, basically, take me to court. It wasn't until EARLY JAN that he agreed.
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Heidi Przybyla
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INBOX:

"Indivisible," a progressive advocacy group, announces the "Payback Project."

👇Collins gets no pass for backing witnesses👇

Targets: McSally (AZ), Gardner (CO), Perdue (GA), Ernst (IA), McConnell (KY), Collins (ME), Tillis (NC), Graham (SC), Cornyn (TX.)
"We only needed four Republicans to vote the right way to allow witness testimony and documents into Trump's impeachment trial. Instead, Republicans once again showed where their loyalties truly lie: not with our Constitution, not with our democracy ...
but with the most corrupt president in American history," the statement says.

Clarification: Collins voted in favor of the capstone vote to allow additional witnesses BUT is on record voting against specific evidence & witnesses at the start of the trial.
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Heidi Przybyla
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.@senatemajldr statement:

"A majority of the U.S. Senate has determined that the numerous witnesses and 28,000-plus pages of documents already in evidence are sufficient to judge the House Managers’ accusations and end this impeachment trial.

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@senatemajldr There is no need for the Senate to re-open the investigation which the House Democratic majority chose to conclude and which the Managers themselves continue to describe as “overwhelming” and “beyond any doubt.”

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@senatemajldr Never in Senate history has this body paused an impeachment trial to pursue additional witnesses with unresolved questions of executive privilege that would require protracted litigation.

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