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

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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:

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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.