https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1223391268555968512
Heidi Przybyla ✔ @HeidiNBC

Days ago, a number of GOP senators said they were furious at the suggestion Trump might retaliate against them for opposing witnesses

Matt Schlapp ✔ @mschlapp

BREAKING: The "extreme conservative" and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, @SenatorRomney is formally NOT invited to #CPAC2020.

6:43 PM - Jan 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1223376045807632391
Garrett Haake ✔ @GarrettHaake

Vote to subpoena witnesses & documents in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump fails, 49-51.

5:42 PM - Jan 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1223367128805408769
Mark Hertling ✔ @MarkHertling

A comment from the former President of Estonia, a man I was once honored to meet. He is speaking for many of our allies. But we’ll be back!

toomas hendrik ilves ✔ @IlvesToomas

“Great! No more tedious US lectures on rule of law, fair trials, evidence, equality before the law, transparency, corruption, free and fair elections” — some 130 governments around the world right now.

5:07 PM - Jan 31, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/31/new-bolton-revelations-show-trumps-trial-is-more-corrupt-than-we-thought/

By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent

Jan. 31, 2020 at 4:16 p.m. EST

Even as the Senate was set to begin debating whether to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, the New York Times published a new revelation contained in an upcoming book from the first and most important witness Democrats would like to call, John Bolton.

The new report shows just how absurd is the GOP claim that there’s no more to be learned about the Ukraine scandal and that we should wrap the trial up as quickly as possible:

More than two months before he asked Ukraine’s president to investigate his political opponents, President Trump directed John R. Bolton, then his national security adviser, to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton.

Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the president’s impeachment defense.

Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won election as president of Ukraine, to ensure Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the investigations that the president sought, in Mr. Bolton’s account. Mr. Bolton never made the call, he wrote.

First, this shows that Trump’s chief counsel for his impeachment defense, Pat Cipollone, might have been a fact witness to the very corrupt scheme for which Trump was impeached -- and for which the Senate is now set to acquit him.

Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law, told us that this raises serious questions about the propriety of Cipollone’s role as Trump’s chief counsel. As Gillers wrote in a recent piece, Cipollone had an obligation, at a minimum, to disclose all his own knowledge of the facts surrounding the case.

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https://twitter.com/MissMyrtle2/status/1223354682380128256
Miss Myrtle Resists @MissMyrtle2

Dear Twitter Family, Friends and family, this is my very last blog post. It is written for you, with love. 💕

MMhttps://missmyrtle2.blog/2020/01/31/miss-myrtles-end-of-life-decision/ …
Miss Myrtle’s End of Life Decision Dear Family, Friends and Twitter Resistance Family,Am an intensely private person, but the events of the past 5 years have made me revisit that fact. The World ha…

4:17 PM - Jan 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1223338312695455746

Josh Lederman ✔@JoshNBCNews

Among the things Parnas would testify to, per letter from his lawyer to McConnell obtained by @MaddowBlog:

Plot to dig up dirt on the Bidens included Trump, Pence, Perry, Pompeo, Barr, Graham, Nunes, Harvey, Solomon, diGenova, Victoria Toensing & America First (super PAC).

Josh Lederman ✔ @JoshNBCNews

One new detail I haven't heard before in letter from Parnas's lawyer:
That Parnashelped arrange the Trump-Zelenskiy meeting at UN & was in "constant contact" with Giuliani & Yermak during the meeting.

That meeting (9/25) came as the Ukraine scandal was already coming to light

3:12 PM - Jan 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1223321619705356289
Jake Tapper ✔ @jaketapper

Former WH chief of staff John Kelly advises the Senate: "If you don’t respond to 75 percent of the American voters and have witnesses, it’s a job only half done. You open yourself up forever as a Senate that shirks its responsibilities.”

https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/01/trumps-former-chief-of-staff-says-senate-impeachment-trial-without-witnesses-is-a-job-only-half-done.html …
Trump’s former chief of staff says Senate impeachment trial without witnesses is ‘a job only half...
John Kelly spoke to NJ Advance Media in advance of Friday's vote on whether to call witnesses to testify in Trump's impeachment trial.

2:06 PM - Jan 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1223309692568588291
Aaron Blake ✔ @AaronBlake

Murkowski: "I have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the Senate. I don’t believe the continuation of this process will change anything. It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed."

1:18 PM - Jan 31, 2020