Re. witnesses, Raskin said McConnell's statement shows they wouldn't have made a difference

[BeyondGeography]

Since McConnell had decided the case on jurisdictional grounds (the January exception), Raskin said we could have produced thousands of witnesses and it wouldn’t have had an impact on his vote to acquit.

He seemed as at peace with the outcome as one could expect. I hope I’m right about that because he left it all on the field as did the whole impeachment team.

Also, if Raskin is reading this correctly, as I’m sure he is. Trump and his defense team made a huge unforced error by insulting the intelligence of the rioters, many of whom are already feeling left high-and-dry by him:

Link to tweet

Getting back to the jurisdictional issue, if the facts of the case were basically irrelevant, why burn a bridge to score a dubious evidentiary point? The constitutional vote on Tuesday should have told Team Trump they didn’t need to go there.

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1. It was not about trying to get 67 votes. It was about embarrassing Republicans.

Just spend ONE second thinking about how this would have been run if the parties were reversed!

Go ahead! Do it!

Everyone knows Republicans would have HAPPILY run an impeachment committee for MONTHS, bringing out one embarrassing witness after another. They would have coordinated their message for MONTHS! They did it with the fake Benghazi!

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3. Lol, republicans are incapable of shame..

You really wanted a months long trial derailing Biden’s agenda that would still end in acquittal just for some ridiculous goal of “embarrassing” republicans?

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4. The Senators can hear voters, if there is enough time and noise.

[central scrutinizer]

5. They have no interest in governing

Or doing anything constructive but protracted hearings and innuendo and smearing make them wet.

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2. The Cult Members Are Forever Loyal

They will gladly go to prison for him, if they must.

He didn't throw them under the bus. He invited them to go there, and they went willingly, and would again.