.@RepAdamSchiff rebuts the White House's closing arguments: "Mr. Philbin began by saying that the House managers assert that you can't have a trial without witnesses, and he said it is not that simple. Actually, it is. It is that simple."
@RepAdamSchiff "Imagine what you will see when you hear from the witnesses who ran the Office of Management and Budget, or imagine what you will see when you read the documents from the Office of Management and Budget, and what you will see is what they have covered up."
@RepAdamSchiff "The Dershowitz principle of constitutional lawlessness. That's the end all argument for them. You don't need to hear witnesses who will prove the president's misconduct, because he has a right to be as corrupt as he chooses under our Constitution...God help us if that succeeds."
@RepAdamSchiff "We came here prepared to try a case, and yes, we had, I hope, the not-unreasonable expectation that in trying that case, like every courtroom in America, that we could call witnesses. That is not a lack of preparation, that is the presence of common sense."
@RepAdamSchiff "'They didn't try to get Bolton, they argue,' and of course, we did try to get Bolton."
@RepAdamSchiff "Now, it was said ...'The House should have fought harder to overcome our stonewalling'...That is a really hard argument to make. I credit them for making it with a straight face."
@RepAdamSchiff "Do not let them suggest that there is something constitutionally impermissible or that it would violate the president's rights to allow the Chief Justice of the United States to make those decisions in this court, because he is empowered to do so by your rules."
@RepAdamSchiff "The president said, when it comes to the senate, we will have a real trial where he can call witnesses. They have changed their tune, because now they know what they have known all along: that the witnesses would incriminate the president."
@RepAdamSchiff "You have the sole power to try this case. You don't have to allow the president's lawyers to abuse your time or this process."
@RepAdamSchiff "It all comes back to the Dershowitz principle: What is the point of witnesses if the president can do whatever he wants under Article II?"
@RepAdamSchiff "Jefferson once said that 'I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held by the principles of its Constitution'...But if we hold true, if we have faith that the ship of state can survive the truth, this storm shall pass."
