****LIVE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 1/24/20 THREAD 1****

[BumRushDaShow]

79. The House Impeachment Managers have divided up the case into portions

1.) Arguing each impeachment Article - they are completing Article I now (Article II will be next)
2.) Article I was basically "Abuse of Power".
3.) For the Abuse of Power, they have had each Manager, in a chronological fashion (I think starting back in April 2019 and working their way until the present) walk through every action as a narrative -

the requiring of a fake "investigation" against a political rival by Ukraine in exchange for a meeting and funding

the subsequent holding of the Ukraine aid to carry out the threat if an investigation wasn't done

the coverup of evidence (classifying a call transcript and manufacturing a justification for holding the aid) - which was exposed and showed that what they were doing was illegal, only coming out once Congress was finally given notice of a whistleblower report, and that notice was was reported in the news

4.) To show proof of "abuse of power", they included testimony clips, news interview clips, texts, emails, and call transcripts, that established - 1) what was happening, 2) who was doing what 3.) what the result was 4) and why the actions that were carried out by the President, his staff, and his lawyers, resulted in an abuse of power.
5.) They then chronologically went through the above showing how the Constitution defined these actions as impeachable and how that compared with past impeachments
6.) And now they are arguing why what was done is so egregious that it requires removal from office as a penalty - due to the President being a national security risk.