Democrats refuse to play Trump and Republicans game

[kentuck]

"It's a sham investigation!", they say.

But the truth of the matter is that it is as fair as it can possibly be. A fair investigation is handled somewhat like a Grand Jury. It is done in secret to gather the facts and to try to protect the innocent.

Republicans are whining because the facts are putting their asses in a vice. They have no defense so they do anything they can do to tear down the investigation and to obstruct the process.

They will get their chance. The investigation will soon be public. They can call witnesses of their own. They can subpoena witnesses, just like the Democrats do. They will be voted on by Committee.

When it goes to the Senate, they will have a chance to call witnesses and to cross-examine. It will be just like a common trial. The Senate will be the jury.

Republicans have nothing to cry about. They need to stop whining.

[RKP5637]

1. Well said!!! n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Republican subpoenas and questions are going to be a freak show

of conspiracy theories.

[kentuck]

3. It's difficult to imagine what witnesses they might call?

...whose stories would not fall apart under questioning?

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Won't matter to the Trump supporters

They will bring in every kook and count on the media to play the testimony sound bites and ignore the cross-examination. They are really only concerned with how their base responds. We are dealing with people who still think that Gowdy totally "owned" Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi Hearings.

Strategy: Deflect, obfuscate, false equivalence, bog it down, countless procedural objections, make it boring. They may be the elect of the imbeciles, but they excel at this shit.

[Saboburns]

5. Republicans will subpoena Joe and Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, James Comey.

This is not sarcasm. This is not a joke. I am not exaggerating. Republicans will waste no time at all talking about Donald Trump during his sure to be high-rated TeeVee hearings. They will instead investigate things the Deplorable base demand be investigated.

Republicans will never even mention Donald Trump (nor want to!) during Donald Trump's Impeachment Inquiry and Trial. They will try to turn this into an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden. Not Donald Trump. So they will try to subpoena both Bidens.

They will smear Hillary Clinton, they will try to "prove" it was Ukraine, not Russia, who hacked the 2016 Election. The will say Ukraine did it to hurt Trump. So they will want to subpoena Hillary Clinton.

Republicans will try to turn this into an investigation to "prove" POTUS Barack Obama spied on Trump campaign. They will try to subpoena Barack Obama.

Republicans HATE James Clapper and John Brennen. And James Comey. They will seek to prove their fever dreams about a "Deep State". So of course they want get to the bottom of this. Henceforth, they will subpoena Clapper, Comey, and Brennen.

This will be the Republican response and plan of action to Donald Trump's Impeachment Inquiry in the House and trial in the Senate.

[kentuck]

7. I doubt they would have the votes in the Committee.

Each subpoena for a witness would be voted on by the full Committee, is what I heard someplace?

[Mr. Ected]

6. The Republicans are going to try to conduct a "shadow impeachment"

Against a list of Democratic villains that FOX news has groomed their public to consume as reality.

Like the north pole of a magnet repelling another magnet's north pole, the GOP's theater will never touch upon the actual impeachment proceeding.