Reject the Coverup | Attend a Rally This Wednesday

On Wednesday, Americans will mobilize to show our elected officials we Reject The Coverup of President Trump's impeachable actions.

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Trump’s enablers in Congress led by Mitch McConnell are about to acquit our lawless president. This was never a trial. It’s a cover up.

Wednesday, February 5th at 5:30pm, hundreds of thousands of Americans will mobilize with a simple demand: Reject The Coverup

If you don’t know now you know... #TrumpIsGuilty

—  Sweet T@CRMEducation

• A: Abuse of Power
• B: Betrayal of the Nation, particularly through Foreign Entanglements
• C: Corruption, particularly Corruption of Elections

Republicans complain about the impeachment trial’s lack of new evidence while blocking new evidence

Republicans are using an astoundingly self-refuting talking point to lay the groundwork for Trump’s acquittal.

www.vox.com|Aaron Rupar

1. Democrats did except all EIGHT of Trump’s officials DISOBEYED their subpoenas. Each is facing fines and potential prison time if the Republican controlled government would do their jobs.
2. William Barr’s DOJ did nothing
3. House Republicans did nothing
4. Senate Republicans did nothing

As Democratic impeachment managers made the case against President Donald Trump on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican senators rolled out a rationale for their future vote to acquit: that the trial is a waste of time because Democrats aren’t presenting new evidence.

• John Barrasso (WY)
• Tim Scott (SC)
• Mike Braun (IN)
• Pat Toomey (PA)
• Rick Scott (FL)
• Josh Hawley (MO)

“What are the Republicans saying? Well, they’re saying they heard nothing new. But these Republicans voted nine times on Tuesday against amendments to ensure new witnesses and new documents. The same Republicans saying they heard nothing new just voted nine times to hear nothing new.”

— Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

“I think most if not all senators are hearing the case by the prosecution and the case by the defense for the first time,” 

“If you polled in the United States Senate, nine out of 10 senators will tell you they have not read the transcript of the proceedings in the House and the tenth senator who says he has or she has is lying.”

— Sen. John Kennedy said during a break on Wednesday evening.

Opinion | The American People Are Being Scammed by Mitch McConnell

Senators have a duty to conduct a fair and full trial. The Republican leader is trying to make sure they can’t.

www.nytimes.com

When senators take an oath to uphold the Constitution, they assume the grave responsibility to conduct a thorough and fair trial on behalf of the American people.

Dismissing this process set out in the Constitution, President Trump has called the impeachment process a “scam.” That’s his opinion, of course — but this week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything he can to ensure that the Senate trial actually is a scam.

Americans understand the basic contours of a fair trial: Each side presents relevant evidence, in the form of documents and witnesses. But Mr. McConnell and President Trump’s allies in the Senate appear to think that the president should be allowed to play by his own rules. The impeachment procedural resolution that the Senate adopted early Wednesday morning appears designed to, among other things, prevent either side from introducing testimony and evidence about President Trump’s alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Mr. McConnell’s rules will weaken the power of impeachment as a deterrent to presidential misbehavior by, among other things, permitting the Senate to reject evidence and testimony that the House has already collected and that was not previously under dispute. In the worst case scenario, the rule could have the effect of allowing the Senate to dismiss the House’s evidence entirely. And these rules add new, unprecedented roadblocks to the Senate’s receiving witness testimony — including from witnesses who have already provided sworn statements to the House, some at great personal and professional cost.

Breaking from this ironclad precedent to protect President Trump, Mr. McConnell’s rules provide no assurance that the Senate will hear from witnesses or collect evidence. 

For many senators, the coming days and weeks will see the most consequential votes of their lives. 

This will end. Trump’s stunning corruption will be laid bare.

The scale of his criminality will be exposed, ensnaring his children. They will not be protected by presidential power.

Their name will be an insult, their memory a blight. They will live out their days in shame.

— Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss

Poll: Majority approve of Trump's impeachment and removal from office

Forty-one percent said it would make them more likely to vote for their senator, and 36% said it would make them less likely to do so.

www.usatoday.com

Following the House of Representatives' vote to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, a new poll from Politico and Morning Consult shows a majority of respondents supporting the articles of impeachment, Trump's impeachment and his removal from office.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has signaled he wants as speedy a trial as possible to acquit Trump, telling reporters last week he was "not an impartial juror," since impeachment was a political, not a judicial process.

Senate Democrats, on the other hand, want to be able to call witnesses and enter new documents during the record as they try to press their case against Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested this week that the House would withhold transmission of the articles of impeachment to the Senate until they determined what format the Senate trial would take.

McConnell said Thursday that negotiations with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over a Senate trial were at an "impasse."

A majority of the poll's respondents believed the Senate should call more witnesses during the trial given the failure of some witnesses to testify during the impeachment inquiry.