Posted on 12/04/2019 6:03:38 PM PST by jazusamo
It is tempting to describe Wednesday’s impeachment hearing before the House Judiciary Committee as a farce. But it was worse than that. It made a travesty of fairness.
With Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. at the helm of the Judiciary Committee, there was no real chance that President Trump would be treated equitably. After all, Nadler’s confederate and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had already obliterated any semblance of due process in impeachment hearings before his committee.
The Schiff hearings were a lollapalooza of hearsay, opinion and grotesque speculation. So there was no reason to believe that Nadler’s Judiciary Committee hearing would be anything less than a theater of the absurd.
Sure enough, Nadler assembled a team of three liberal law professors who were already on record as antagonistic to President Trump. During their daylong testimony, the hostility was palpable.
There was little effort to disguise the relentless Democratic agenda to remove Trump from office by hell or high water. Obsessions are like that. They know no bounds and defy all sensibility.
Republicans were afforded just one witness. Fortunately, his sagacity and eloquence offered a persuasive counterbalance. For one day at least, numerical superiority did not prevail.
Here is a summary of what unfolded, looking at the testimony of the four law professors who testified.
Harvard University Law Professor Noah Feldman
Feldman had already prejudged Trump’s guilt on an impeachable offense when he penned a column two months ago declaring that Trump had committed an unconstitutional “quid pro quo” in asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into the conduct of former Vice President Joe Biden.
This, of course, conveniently ignored the fact that no evidence of a quid pro quo exists anywhere in the record of the Trump-Zelensky phone call of July 25.
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Three Trump-haters were given a platform to say how much they hated Trump and accuse him of whatever they wanted. No demand for evidence, no cross examination, no asking that they refrain from speculation. Just a group of gossipers being allowed to rip to their hearts’ content.
The partisanship and hate from the 3 Dem witnesses was a disaster for the Dems. All 3 were unprofessional beyond belief. They acted like radical activists, not legal scholars. It may provide red meat for the far left base, but it is a huge turnoff for moderates and independents, and will only steel even reluctant Trump supporters. Whatever microscopic veneer of legitimacy that remained was stripped away today.
Saw a column highlighted in an earlier FR thread where the author had testified earlier as to Karlan’s demonstrated dishonesty:
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/dishonest-witness-pam-karlan-latest-act-at-impeachment-circus/
You are so right, in my view those three made total a$$es out of themselves.
The Dems need to convince people that their impeachment attempt is on the up and up and those three only could be believed by those radical libs already on board.
Yep, Christian Adams nailed her to the wall.
Thanks for posting.....I didn’t tune in to the nonesense parade of Academics today.....the least trusted and most biased individuals on the planet!... So Jarrett’s summary was a confirmation I didn’t miss anything at all.
Bump!
Stanford University Law School should be hanging their collective heads in shame, but more likely they are busy spin-doctoring an excuse for their professor after she made a complete ass of herself. And her “apology” was a verbally diarrhetic dump.
I expect them to trot out Stanford’s Christine Blasey Ford again any time.
Jarrett is one of the greats.
These ass clowns need to be dragged in front of the Senate and pilloried for this nonsense. So much so that no decent institution would hire them. Well maybe they are already there.
Amen, I think so too.
Did all these lying Dem witnesses get a get out of jail free card for lying to Congress ?
For all intents and purposes,the House as a body is worthless,weak and most need to go rope and tree. This government is more broken than any other time besides the OTHER Civil War.
We can call it the Seinfeld Impeachment.
First time in American history where a sitting President will be indicted for doing absolutely nothing.
Its incredible but that’s were we are today. Democrats are being destroyed by their own bottomless hate.
They will be the casualty of their effort to remove Trump from office. In a word, those who sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
Democrats will live to regret it. Now let’s get it over with.
Gregg Jarrett is pretty damned good. I’d love to see him, at the very least, #2 at the DOJ with the path to being #1 clearly marked in the President’s next term.
Turley, I’m thinking, probably shocked the room with his statements. I doubt even the Republican’s that called him were expecting what he said.
The other 3 went to a bar or someone’s home and were patted on the back and applauded for their performance by their liberal, hack friends. Then they all sipped their chardonnay’s and told each other how great they are, how important they are and how smart they are.
Retard Repugnic-nt pussies ask DEMOCRAT Johnathan Turley to “defend” Trump when they could have asked Jarret and Mark Levin.
I LOVED READING ABOUT THAT!!!
J. Christian Adams was a hero before all of our wonderful heros, Jordan, Goetz, Collins, Ratcliff, and ALL THE OTHER WHO TOOK PART IN THAT CIRQUE DE NADLER TODAY.
Adams,who has a great name, was an early whistleblower, who was ignored.
God Bless him.
nadler would not have allowed either of them to be there.
this guy was better because nadler thought he was get another one like HIS.
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