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SIREN: @SenAlexander is NO on witnesses:

“There is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense. …

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@SenAlexander "The Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate."

“The question then is not whether the president did it, but whether the United States Senate or ..
@SenAlexander the American people should decide what to do about what he did.

I believe that the Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday."

And that appears to be the curtain call on the trial.
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Heidi Przybyla
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"Shokin’s top deputy, Vitaliy Kasko, told Bloomberg News the investigation into Burisma Holdings had been dormant for more than a year before Biden addressed corruption issues with Ukraine‘s president. The European Union and Ukraine’s creditors also sought Shokin’s dismissal."
"It feels like deja vu: Donald Trump brands a Democratic rival as corrupt even as he’s accused of enlisting the help of a foreign country to help push the story.

In 2016, it was Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct State Department business ..
— and her decision to delete 30,000 emails rather than turn them over to investigators......
Now, Trump is pushing a largely discredited story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his position as a director of a Ukrainian energy company."

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Heidi Przybyla
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👉🔥Ad targeting Des Moines w straight up false allegations against @JoeBiden running night before Iowa Caucuses

"Biden got away with it," says Sen. Scott, a juror who sat through hours of arguments demonstrating the false allegation.

via @YouTube
@JoeBiden @YouTube Many many fact checks out there. Here's the local one:

"the Obama White House, with the support of many Western nations, pressured Ukraine to remove Shokin because he was failing to investigate corruption, not because he was looking into Burisma."
@JoeBiden @YouTube factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-joe-bide…
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Heidi Przybyla
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🧐Trump is being acquitted -- in FIRST Senate impeachment trial in history w no witness testimony -- on premise the House process was unfair.

(THREAD on this misleading premise)👉

1. 17 witnesses w knowledge of Trump withholding of Ukraine aid testified. The GOP called, and got
, Amb Volker & Tim Morrison.

2. Trump blocked anyone in 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. On scorn for Schiff for failing to "do his job" and call Bolton. House Dems badly wanted to call him but Bolton wouldn't do it. He said .. take me to court. It wasn't until EARLY JAN that he agreed.
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James Mitchell Ⓥ
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How will the nation’s Republican senators look anyone in the face and say they have any rights to keep in check a corrupt and criminal president? How can they pretend to be Trump’s victims when they marched themselves off a constitutional cliff?
And how on earth can they pretend to the world that their vision of America – where a president can happily use military aid to coerce a foreign government to smear his political rival in an election – is the model for democracy?
Let’s be honest. There was little drama or suspense in Trump’s impeachment trial, save for the bat-excrement quality of crazy that tumbled out of Alan Dershowitz’s mouth.
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Jake Tapper
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Headline of @SenAlexander news is he’s a NO and the motion for new witnesses will likely fail.

And thus acquittal will come sooner rather than later.

Subhead: Alexander agrees Trump withheld US “aid, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens”

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2/ Alexander concurs that the House impeachment managers “have proved this with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming evidence.’...When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law.”
3/ BUT he argues the “inappropriate” action “does not meet the U.S. Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense.” And he says if “this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart.”
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Bansi Sharma
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1. Impeachment All But Over

The fate of President Trump’s impeachment trial is likely sealed.

Moments ago, Senator Lamar Alexander, seen as the deciding vote on whether new witnesses would be heard in the trial, said he would vote against the measure.
2. Prelude to a Requiem

Lamar Alexander's announcement dealt what was widely seen as a fatal blow to Democrats, who needed four Republicans to call witnesses.

Tomorrow will be a very messy impeachment day. Things will go well into the night.
3. “I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something ... that does not meet the United States Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense.” -- Mr. Alexander
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Paula Chertok🗽
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BREAKING: Lamar Alexander won't vote to hear witnesses or see documents in the Senate #ImpeachmentTrial, #Maddow reports.

@LamarAlexander's hero was Howard Baker. You sir, sadly, are no Howard Baker.
@LamarAlexander 🚨Republican @SenAlexander uses Dershowitz's 👑argument to justify no witnesses, acknowledging Trump did it all: "There is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the US Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense."
@LamarAlexander @SenAlexander There it is >> Republican Lamar Alexander is OK with a sham impeachment trial w/o witnesses b/c he prefers a lawless criminal in the White House to a Democrat. And he's a "swing" Republican! Shame on him and the rest of these fools lucky enough never to have lived under dictators
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Sen. Lamar Alexander
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I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the U.S. Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense.1/15
There is no need for more evidence to prove that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter; he said this on television on October 3, 2019, and during his July 25, 2019, telephone call with the president of Ukraine. 2/15
There is no need for more evidence to conclude that the president withheld United States aid, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; the House managers have proved this with what they call a “mountain of overwhelming evidence.” 3/15
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Megan Mineiro
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Back on Capitol Hill where senators have 8hrs of Q&A left, starting at 1pm. At an impressive pace they fired off 93 questions yesterday to House managers and Trump’s attorneys. @CourthouseNews
Senators filtering into a GOP luncheon ahead of today’s proceedings. No comment on Friday vote for witnesses.
Kennedy, asked where GOP is at on votes, responds “be cool honey bunny.”
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