Judge Napolitano: Trump Was Guilty As Sin

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/judge-napolitano-trump-was-guilty-sin

2/06/20 10:36am
Judge Napolitano: Trump Was Guilty As Sin
Fox News Legal Analyst Andrew Napolitano wrote a scathing op-ed indicting every Republican senator but Mitt Romney.
By John Amato


While Trump surrogates lie to the press and claim Trump did nothing wrong whatsoever, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' Senior Legal Analyst writes that Senate Republicans shirked their duty and acquitted Trump without bothering to weigh any evidence highlighted by them refusing to call a single witness.

But the search for the truth requires witnesses, and when the command from Senate Republican leaders came down that there shall be no witnesses, the truth-telling mission of Trump's trial was radically transformed into a steamroller of political power.

Judge Nap outlined the entire case:

Trump's solicitation of assistance for his reelection campaign from a foreign government by holding up the release of $391 million in military aid to the same foreign government. These funds were congressionally appropriated and ordered to be paid by legislation that Trump had signed into law.

Federal law prohibits such solicitation as criminal and prohibits government officials from seeking personal favors in return for performing their governmental duties. The latter is bribery.

The evidence that Trump did this is overwhelming and beyond a reasonable doubt, and no one with firsthand knowledge denied it.

Napolitano then explained how new evidence against Trump was buried by Senate Republicans (24 newly uncovered emails and John Bolton's testimony) was as shameful as Trump's behavior.

The second signal event was shameful. It was the 51 to 49 Senate vote to bar witnesses and documents from the trial.

Isn't it odd that a president who clamors for exoneration, who claimed loud and long that he committed no crime and did no wrong, who insisted that his request to the Ukrainian president to seek dirt on Biden in return for American financial assistance was "perfect," would command the members of his own party to block testimony adverse to him – rather than hear it, cross-examine it, challenge it and thereby obtain the exoneration on the merits that he seeks?

Do innocent people behave this way?

They do not.

[PJMcK]

1. Judge Napolitano used to be a joke

Now we take him seriously, primarily because he's one of the few truth-tellers on Fox News.

Everything is weird in the Era of Trump.

ETA: Thanks for the link, babylonsister.

[k2qb3]

2. I've always kinda liked the judge.

Even when I disagree with someone on many things I can respect somebody who holds to the same ideals whether they benefit him politically or not.

People like that tend to get called all sorts of names regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.

[Ilsa]

4. He sometimes drove me crazy, but I think

He was usually more right than wrong.

[crickets]

3. Excellent op-ed. K&R for visibility.

[lees1975]

5. Most Republican Senators believed he was guilty

they just didn't have the guts to stand up to him. Romney did and boy did it pull the guts out of the whole Trump White House.

I heard Indiana Senator Mike Braun on WBBM newsradio in Chicago say this morning that the vote wasn't about Trump's guilt or innocence, or their own integrity, it was about PRESERVING THEIR AGENDA!

[scarletwoman]

11. There's the heart of the matter in a nutshell:

...the vote wasn't about Trump's guilt or innocence, or their own integrity, it was about PRESERVING THEIR AGENDA!

[Perseus]

14. "PRESERVING THEIR AGENDA!" which means they left their dignity, if they had any, outside

They lost their principles for an agenda? Bull, you crooks are so compromised that going to jail is not part of your agenda, that is the agenda you think you are going to preserve.

[NewJeffCT]

16. damn - that really nails it

they know if they vote to convict & remove Trump, it would be an election year disaster for Republicans.

But, Democrats blew a huge advantage in both houses of Congress and a Democratic president when Jimmy Carter was president and Watergate just happened. Carter was followed by 8 years of Reagan and 4 years of Bush Sr.

[luvtheGWN]

17. But that doesn't make a whole lt of sense, unless

they were afraid of Pence and his ultra pseudo-Christian agenda. Ot else they were afraid (and rightly so) that Pence could never win the 2020 election.

[Skittles]

18. Trump is a cult figure and Pence has the charisma of a paper towel

they voted Trump over America

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. meanwhile it appears cable tv "news" continues to just be a magaphone for trumputin

[kentuck]

7. kick

for visibility.

[Ohioboy]

8. It amazes me that we have senators that say he's guilty yet did nothing

[Wednesdays]

10. They're banking on the electorate's short memory

They actually believe this will all be forgotten by November.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Trump has dirt on ALL of them.

Except maybe for Romney. That's why they're all so scared of him. They're trying to save their own asses. Many of them likely belong on the same cell block Trump is headed for.

[SunSeeker]

9. K & R

[Perseus]

13. Something I feel it is important to note

The lawyers who represented trump should feel very low at this time, they have made fools of themselves in front the country and the entire World, they have participated in a sham, they did not win a trial, they were used as props for what the republican senators had already decided they were going to do.

They have become a shame to their profession, they should loose all respect from their peers and their clients. To have served in a cast of liars with no arguments that could have measured their skills as lawyers should be denigrating to anyone who respects oneself, they have performed in a play and their roles have been reduced to that of parrots in a comedy of fools.

How can one who has self respect allow anyone to use them in that role in this comedy, which if treated as a comedy would fail because there was nothing to laugh at, only shame. Every time they came out with a lie, although I have nothing to do with them, I felt shame for them, its like watching a boxing match and your pick to win is just beating the other guy too bad and you start feeling sorry for the looser, that is how I felt, but not sorry, ashamed for the profession they represent.

They should all be disbarred, the American bar Association should look into these so called lawyers, they have misrepresented their profession, no lawyer should be allowed to spew such blatant lies anywhere. I understand the impeachment trial was not conducted in a court of law, but nonetheless these people were representing themselves as lawyers, even though they chose to take the role of liars and parrots.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I hope so, but I think they see themselves as saviors and well-paid. I doubt they feel any shame

at all. They are useful mouthpieces for a criminal.

[Skittles]

19. for the life of me

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I just cannot understand why so many seemingly intelligent and accomplished people are willing to HUMILIATE themselves over an absolute BUFFOON - I mean, come on, Trump is a fucking JOKE who will EASILY take first place in the list of the worst and most corrupt American "president" EVER.

WHY DO THEY DO IT.

I agree with your assessment - in fact, it is worthy of its own thread.