GOP is already thinking about how to turn a Senate impeachment trial to Trump's advantage

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From https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-07/gop-is-already-thinking-about-how-to-turn-a-senate-impeachment-trial-to-trumps-advantage

GOP is already thinking about how to turn a Senate impeachment trial to Trump’s advantage

Mitch McConnell and Charles E. Schumer
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).(J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

By JENNIFER HABERKORN, MELANIE MASON
Nov. 7, 2019. 4 AM

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are beginning to strategize about how they might use an impeachment trial to reshape the narrative in the president’s favor.

Trump’s strongest allies in the Senate are considering ideas such as calling witnesses that might prove embarrassing to Democrats or trying to time the proceeding to interfere with the campaigning of 2020 candidates, particularly in the run-up to the first presidential contest in Iowa.

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And the Senate might even have influence on the 2020 contest. Assuming articles of impeachment are passed in the House by the end of the year, a trial held in January would keep the six senators who are vying for the Democratic nomination tied up in Washington instead of out campaigning in Iowa. That could be a boon to other Democrats seeking the nomination, including Biden and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

“Once it comes over here, it’s in our lap,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.). “We talk about those things and kind of snicker about it, I suppose: the possibility of it playing out that way, where we’re literally in the middle of voting [in the presidential race and] senators would be stranded here for six days a week.”

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[Botany]

2. "Once it comes over here, it's in our lap," said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).

How about doing your job Sen. Cramer? Trump's installation as President by Russia and
his actions after that* are part of the biggest series of crimes in America's history and
you and your Republican colleagues can either be on the right side of history or not.
End of story.


* https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212662114

[rzemanfl]

3. Democrats should declare a moratorium on campaigning during

the impeachment hearings. They will suck all the air out of the country anyway.

[berni_mccoy]

4. Bad faith

[Chickensoup]

5. They can think all they want

Their success of failure will depend
on our responds to their deviousness .
We are upholding the construction
they are trying to to take it down.
We should be able to blow them out of the
water and have majority in all congress
and the White House.

[dalton99a]

7. The Constitution means nothing to these fucking traitors