Impeachment
Trial: Cut and Dried Says McConnell
(BTW:
Moscow Mitch is very apropos)
Sen. Mitch
McConnell (R-KY) is playing politics (surprise, surprise, surprise).
All that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asked was for the rules so she could
comply and assign “House managers who will act as prosecutors after they
officially deliver the two articles of impeachment just like was done under the
rules for Bill Clinton’s senate trial – nothing more, nothing less.”
Which BTW
were the same kind of GOP rules approved in 1998.
This is
dirty tricks by McConnell and everyone know is except his sycophants.
He also
wants to ensure Trump is off the hook and stays close to Putin regarding this
major story headlines from The Week:
Recent this from the Washington Post: What is McConnell's end-game?
More here, too:
More background why the nickname “Moscow
Mitch” started and now sticks:
Robert
Mueller testified about his report, in which he had meticulously documented the extent
of Russian interference in our election system and said it still continues and
will be worse than 2016. His report included, but was not limited to, “active
measures that stoked and catalyzed preexisting divisions in the U.S.”
McConnell
blocked the bills one day after Mueller appeared before House committees and
reiterated how his 448-page report found the Russian government interfered in
the 2016 presidential election. Mueller also warned that Russia is planning to interfere
in the 2020 election “as we sit here.”
Later, the
Senate Intelligence Committee revealed that Russia had also been poking around in all 50 state election systems. While there
is no evidence of direct tampering, the entire intelligence community believes
the goal is to familiarize themselves with our election infrastructure in order
to trigger future and more material interference.
Mueller also
documented multiple attempts by Russian operatives to coordinate with the Trump
campaign officials. That exposed a gap previously governed by norms, i.e., there
is no formal requirement for a presidential candidate to abstain from and/or
report to authorities these outreach efforts.
So, Congress
put three bills to a vote and the House passed them with a goal of addressing
some of these concerns. Provisions would protect Senators and staffers from
hackers and, more importantly require campaigns to report foreign entities
interfering in any election.
McConnell blocked
those efforts on the basis that he rejects the aforementioned information as
either conspiratorial or undermined by the 2018 midterm elections.
From
CBS News: McConnell
over the summer blocked two House-approved measures to protect elections,
despite warnings that Russia intends to meddle in the 2020 race. One bill would
have set aside $775 million for state election security and require paper
ballot to avoid digital disruptions.
Another
would have required candidates, their family and campaign staff to tell federal
authorities if they are offered help from a foreign government — something
President Trump said he'd be ready
to accept.
Weeks before
the 2016 election, but McConnell refused
to join a bipartisan statement warning about Russia's election
interference after he had been briefed on it.
My 2 cents: How can anyone in KY or in the Senate
condone any of McConnell’s actions? It defies gravity itself to do so.
He may lose his KY seat to woman retired fighter pilot
– and boy I hope he does … for the good of KY, the Senate, and nation as a
whole.
He has to go since he has surely now gone too far with his stance on the
upcoming impeachment trial – which he does not want to last long or even start
if he gets his way and he must not.
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