I’ve tried to refrain myself from commenting of late on the rogue presidency of reality grifter Donald Trump. Instead…I’ve remained somewhat silent on my blog and spent time reading up on the impeachments of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton.
In our system of justice one is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond doubt. In this case what the House did was in essence conduct a grand jury indictment and bound our most corrupt POTUS ever over for a ‘trial’ in the Senate.
In a real trial both sides go through the process of voir dire so as both sides can remove biased jurors from sitting in unfair judgement of the defendant or of the seriousness of the state’s case. Ideally—you want impartial jurors.
You also want all the evidence. You want all of the witnesses of whom are relevant. You want the truth.
Evidently—Mitch McConnell and William Barr adhere to the doctrine a sitting POTUS is above the law and the constitution.
Granted—a Senate trial is not the same as a trial in other jurisdictions and will be presided over by Chief Justice John Roberts. Only twice in American history have we traveled this road before as Chief Justice Salmon Chase presided over the impeachment case of Andrew Johnson and William Rehnquist presided over the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
It takes a two-thirds vote of the Senate to impeach a sitting president which has never happened before in American history.
But one would hope with the question being has our sitting president rigged one election and attempted to rig a second election….. that at the least John Roberts would want to conduct something beyond an obvious partisan sham.
Given the additional evidence which was revealed yesterday in relation to the sordid conduct performed by Donald Trump’s pro bono legal agent Rudy Giuliani… I would suspect at least four GOP senators will now side with the notion that having a real trial might not be a crazy notion….even with the tax cuts in place.
Pelosi was fairly smart in how she put this team of seven together. There are no crazies like Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, or Lindsey Graham on the team. All seven are litigators. Maxine Waters has been quarantined so to speak. How sad it is I had to refer to John McCain’s old friend as a partisan hack. But he has left with no choice. At least one of us is here to cover John McCain’s back. Just to be clear…Lindsey Graham is nothing more than a political hack who was allowed to stay around way too long in the Senate.
We now move on to a real Senate trial…. we hope. This is a serious matter. While it’s hard to contemplate our buffoon president as much of anything serious or presidential— he was elected POTUS.
Trump is presumed innocent of trampling the constitution and obstructing justice on multiple counts. Even though I openly disdain the grifter human junk bond he truly is…my father was a trial lawyer. He ingrained in me no matter the case of defendant—one is entitled to their day in court and a presentation of the facts.
So even though I clearly have my own personal views on Donald Trump as a human being and why I wouldn’t waste five minutes of my life being around him…I do have the ability to absorb the evidence and be fair in relation to the law and our constitution.
Let’s see the evidence. All of it.
Chief Justice John Roberts is an avid golfer and a good one. Unlike Trump who is regarded as an unabashed cheater on his golf courses…John Roberts is a stickler for the rules. John Roberts doesn’t cheat beyond a first tee mulligan. Whereas Trump kicks, moves, and places his balls all over the course to his scorecard’s benefit. For a reference please read Commander in Cheat by SI’s Rick Reilly.
Perhaps…it will be this golf analogy of sorts which might give us a hint as to how John Roberts views the rogue grifter Trump and his overt disdain for the Constitution.
Here’s Rick Reilly explaining how Donald Trump in his mind has won eighteen different club championships over the years.