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Today the Senate reconvenes the first impeachment trial in its history without any witnesses.
Today the Senate reconvenes the 1st presidential impeachment trial in history without actual deliberations

Instead of senators formally meeting to deliberate together - like other impeachments & every other jury trial - they are nixing that, doing some speeches, and then voting.
This impeachment process began with the defendant complaining it was a sham.

It ends with the prosecutors complaining it is a sham, because the defendant demanded Senate Republicans make it one.
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Ari Melber
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Really regret buying “RX BARS” in bulk only to learn they taste like dirty cardboard.
I still have to eat them all because I can’t stand waste / am thrifty.
Sometimes, I will just eat half of one in the morning, as a sort of ascetic breakfast snack.
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Ari Melber
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On a smaller point: Trump knows Blagojevich, they did a TV show together; context for the President falsely saying today, “don’t know him.”
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 "He served 8 years in jail, it's a long time & I watched his wife on television, I don't know him very well, I've met him a couple of times, he was on for a short while on The Apprentice years ago, seemed like a very nice person, don't know him but he served 8 years in jail"
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The thrust is Trump attempting to downplay his own link to the beneficiary of his use of this power.

Under DOJ protocol, independent attorneys do vetting and recs to avoid the unfairness/injustice/bias that can come with a POTUS just picking people he knows.
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Ari Melber
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Shorter Bill Barr:

I stand by intervening to help a convicted Trump adviser, but I wish Trump did not admit what we are doing on Twitter
Also note Barr is *rushing* out an interview to defend himself against condemnation for blatantly improper interference by:

- nonpartisan legal experts
- top DOJ veterans
- some conservative legal leaders

Apparently facts still matter.

What veteran peers say still matters.
So this reaction from one of Trump's favorite cabinet members reveals what they do can reveal more than what they say ('I don't care about criticism etc')
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Lucius_A_Seneca #FBR #HaveDemocracy 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇺🇳
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1/ How Republics are lost: thread for those who care. "A Republic, ma'am. If you can keep it", Benjamin Franklin famously said in 1787. What did he mean? The Founders knew history. They were trying to improve on the longest-surviving Republic in history: Rome. Republic
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Senator Ted Cruz
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(1/4) My 5th #impeachment question, with @sendavidperdue --> “You refused to answer the question on political bias. Are the House Managers refusing to tell the Senate whether or not the so-called ‘whistleblower’ had an actual conflict of interest? …
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(3/4) … who directly participated in and could face criminal or civil liability for Joe Biden's demanding Ukraine fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma? And why did you refuse to transmit to the Senate the Inspector General transcript?"
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Evan Donovan
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1st question in Senator Q&A phase of impeachment trial is from the moderate Republicans--Collins reads out Q from herself, Murkowski and Romney.

How should Senate treat evidence if Trump had dual motives both personal and public?

#ImpeachmentTrial #impeachment
Philbin answers:
1) even if Trump's motive was only personal, it's too subjective to be viable for impeachment
2) if he had any mixed motives, it destroys their case, because Senators can't determine how much was personal vs. public motive
2nd question from (D-NY) Chuck Schumer:
Bolton's book is coming out, can the Senate come to a viable conclusion without hearing from him?

Schiff gives a long answer, but his short answer is no.

Also shows videos of WH counsel arguing to hear "all of the facts"
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Today is the first day of arguments (without witnesses or documents, in an historic Fascist First) in the Mostly Moot Impeachment Senate Trial of Donald John Trump. So I will start a new thread here. #ImpeachmentTrial
Since the Repubs have set the rules so that no actual deliberations will take place, I'll tend to go a bit meta in this thread, writing of the background and intentions as well as noting whatever comes down with the gavel. #ImpeachmentDay
The trial started with an absurd display of piety, as a minister intoned a prayer to his god, claiming that he was omniscient ("You know our thoughts before we think them") but then reminding it of its duty. I suppose the god is getting old and forgetful then #ImpeachmentTrial
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Peter Daou
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THREAD — THERE IS NO #IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Deeply troubling that #Pelosi and #Nadler are trying to obfuscate and confuse Democratic voters.

But let's be clear, as CNN reports today: "Pelosi and Nadler have so far resisted the pressure from within their party to open an inquiry."
THERE'S NO IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

After months of intense activist pressure @SpeakerPelosi and @RepJerryNadler realized they had to throw Dems a bone, so they concocted a convoluted narrative to make it appear the #impeachment process has begun. It hasn't.

@SpeakerPelosi @RepJerryNadler THERE'S NO IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Let's be honest: Dem leaders want to punt to 2020 voters while Trump abuses power with total abandon.

#Nadler's words: “If an impeachment inquiry is if you’re considering only impeachment, that’s not what we’re doing.”

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