Posted on 01/23/2020 8:55:20 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Senators on Wednesday night agreed to admit a classified document from an aide to Vice President Pence into the impeachment trial following closed-door deliberations.
The one-page document relates to a phone call that took place between Pence and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a week before Zelensky met with President Trump at the United Nations.
This latest development is a win for House Democrats who have unsuccessfully pressed the White House to declassify the document, which Pence aide Jennifer Williams submitted to the House in late November to supplement her public testimony earlier that month.
House managers who function as prosecutors in Trump’s Senate trial continued to criticize the White House’s refusal to declassify the evidence and urged senators on Wednesday to review its contents.
“I've read that testimony. I will just say that a cover-up is not a proper reason to classify a document,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), one of the managers. “In case the White House needs a reminder, it's improper to keep something classified just to avoid embarrassment or to conceal wrongdoing.”
Williams’s evidence may be accessed by senators in a classified setting but will not be made public, according to the terms of the closed-door agreement announced late Wednesday by Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial.
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I told you so.
This is just the beginning, folks. Senate Repubs will be allowing new “evidence” and new testimony from new “witnesses”.
In short - the lies and third hand hearsay that went on in the House will continue unabated in the Senate.
Don’t get this. This doc has already been submitted to the House during their investigation and all it is is something supporting what an aid to Pense testified to in November.
We KNOW there is nothing derogatory towards Trump in this because it was not leaked. However the Left, desperate for something, anything to spin which will make them look a bit less wacky treats this as some sort of victory.
The spinate and the turtle have now lost their grip, if they ever had one. This will turn into a bigger fur ball than it ever has been. Things will get completely out of hand and nothing good will come of it.
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
-Admiral Painter
.....”The dramatic pearl-clutching around here is pathetic”....
Yes Indeed!....they forget there’s a lot of gamanship going on. Let’s see if the Dems take this rope they were just handed and run with it. Tsk Tsk!
Dream on...
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