So @RepAdamSchiff now knows he's giving a closing argument in a fake trial. The jurors and defense attorneys are both fake (as many are defense witnesses) and the judge is an unstuffed scarecrow. I'd give a closing today that brings in *all* the evidence and allegations. Why not?
PS/ There are no rules in this trial besides how long you can speak for. So let's have a closing that gives America the full scope of the evidence. Let's talk Naftogaz, Mueller obstruction, secret Venezuela diplomacy, the interference invite to China, the Turkey quid pro quo...
PS2/ ...and I'm not talking about scurrilous allegations. I'm talking about truth. I'm saying America should know the House fought this battle with both hands tied behind their back, because they didn't talk about other items in public reporting and narrowly limited the evidence.
PS3/ We never heard about how Trump and Giuliani personally engineered the reporting on the Bidens by John Solomon of THE HILL. We never heard about how Yuri Lutsenko conducted a full Biden investigation in early 2019 at giuliani's request and then *recanted everything in June*.
PS4/ America never got a rundown of the lies Trump told about not knowing Parnas/Fruman, nor an accounting of all the times we know they interacted with Trump well beyond a photograph. No accounting of Trump's public Ukraine lies (which suggest consciousness of guilt) was given.
PS5/ Though the House had ample evidence of the modus operandi Trump used in this case, because he had done the same thing with Russia previously and was doing the same thing with China and Venezuela concurrently, those topics were wrongly deemed "outside the scope" of the trial.
PS6/ So many things were not stated as clearly as they could've been, e.g. whatever info Trump had suggesting Biden wrongdoing, he soon learned was false via Lutsenko. Trump's team never presented any evidence Trump cared about any Ukrainian company not tied to a political rival.
PS7/ By making their defense that Trump was an anti-corruption fighter, Trump's team opened the door to a catalog of every corrupt thing Trump has done and every corrupt person he has coddled, as a way of proving this is the *last man in the world* who'd *ever* fight corruption.
PS8/ Democrats have played nice for four years, under the assumption reasonable Republicans still existed in Washington. Now we know they don't, and that it's not just that they're unreasonable, it's that the whole party is irreparably corrupted. Maybe it's time to *act* like it?
PS9/ It's time for Democrats to let loose the dogs of war (rhetorically), and it seems to me the closing arguments in an impeachment trial, especially when media has already decided they won't be exciting or be worth much reporting on, is the perfect time to *release the hounds*.
PS10/ There's middle ground between safe DNC messaging that seems like it hails from last century and the no-holds-barred deep-fake route Bill Maher advocates. You can destroy a man on the internet and do it without telling a lie. Democrats need young folks who know how to do it.
