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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. A trial (in Senate) REQUIRES Due Process, not during the investigation.

Sun Dec 29, 2019, 11:12 AM

Dec 2019

Regardless, the House made available opportunities for exculpatory witnesses to testify to the investigation.

There were none made available.

So it is definitely not fair to himself if he does not make witnesses available for his trial.
Nor is it fair to the People, who are (through the House managers) the prosecutors.

Due Process means being fair to both Defense and Prosecution, tipping to the Defense in many ways: Innocent until proven guilty, defense gets to see all the evidence before trial but does not have to provide evidence to the prosecution, and so on.

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DONALD J TRUMP, YOU ARE HEREBY CHARGED WITH CRIMES AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION [View all] kentuck Dec 2019 OP

A trial (in Senate) REQUIRES Due Process, not during the investigation. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2019 #1

we have at least 2 Senators in violation of their oath Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2019 #2

The uninformed will think it just Washington being Washington bucolic_frolic Dec 2019 #3

I wonder if he can remember what 'exculpatory' means... Harker Dec 2019 #4

Would love to see the Chief Justice open the trial with that statement! 40RatRod Dec 2019 #5

That's what we all thought, but doesn't seem to be the case. Pepsidog Dec 2019 #6

I don't see any whitehouse.gov petitions along these lines NotASurfer Dec 2019 #7

Also, when they say the Democrats tried for two years with Mueller Report... kentuck Dec 2019 #8