[Hoot Gibson]

If you weren’t watching how do you know what was said? The piecemeal case that was displayed in the Impeachment inquiry was very different than what was presented over the last three days.

I found it interesting that the President had no opposition to the same aid his prior two years in office, but a week after Biden entered the race the ball started rolling as he sent Giuliani and US diplomats to encourage Ukraine to investigate Russian propaganda.

Then in the summer, after much motivation, Ukraine still seemed to not want to participate Trump made the call on July 25th, or the day after Mueller testified in Congress. Probably realizing since he was safe from the Russia probe, he could now take a pivotal role in leveraging Ukraine.

By August 25th the news of the whistleblower complaint was out, and by Sept. 11th the Trump administration was forced to release the aid or be in violation of the law.

Way too much evidence pointing to Trump’s intentions and involvement to sweep away. I guess my phrasing was wrong; it is corruption even he didn’t succeed.

The obstruction charge comes down to the fact that Trump didn’t do what other presidents under investigation had done. IMO, the House should have subpoenaed the documents and testimony, and If Trump felt it was it was executive privilege he should have done that.

The drip, drip of information outside of the trial is undermining some of the defense of the president. I do wonder when that will spill over into the trial, or if there will be enough to compel House Democrats to start right back over.

Nixon’s wall crumbled in 7 days after the “smoking gun tapes” existence was revealed.

Impeachment is not being used illegally. You may not support it, but thus far everything has followed the Constitution.

Have we ever seen a President’s party open impeachment proceedings?

Liberal revisions? I don’t use liberal sources when I review, so no, not liberal revision.

FWIW, I don’t know how you handle Iran. I’m not interested in a war. JCPOA was meant to eliminate the Nuclear threat. It didn’t last long enough to know if it was successful, or not. We now have nothing, but sanctions on the rogue nation: no inspectors, no leverage, and no diplomacy.

What high crime or misdemeanor do you believe President Trump has committed? From my more objective perspective, having been the President's most vocal critic on BGR, the biggest abuse of power (which is not, IMO, constitutionally impeachable offense) has been exercised by the U.S. House of Representatives.

The House's impeachment of a sitting president, in the absence of an allegation of any high crime or misdemeanor, is the equivalent of an unfounded frivolous civil lawsuit.

The House had the opportunity to subpoena documents and testimony from Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton, or any other individual whom they believed might provide evidence of the commission of a high crime or misdemeanor, but they declined to do so.

There is no provision in the Constitution to allow Articles of Impeachment to be amended or corrected during the Senate trial. The House had no intention of removing Donald Trump from office. Their goal was to weaken him politically to allow one Democrats' extremely weak candidates to win the 2020 presidential election.

The bottom line is Democrats began working to overturn the results of the 2016 election before Donald Trump took the oath of office.

Elections have consequences and rejecting the results of fair elections is as bad as rigging the results of an election. Democrats did both in 2016. Just ask Bernie Sanders whether Hillary Clinton won her party's nomination in a fair process.