There Are Probably Enough Votes To Force Witnesses, Including Joe And Hunter Biden

The Washington Post is giddy about calling witnesses, because the House failed to do their job, so they have the big front page headline (and the article even notes calling witnesses is worthless)

McConnell says he currently lacks the votes to block witnesses

White House lawyers pleaded with senators Tuesday to acquit President Trump based on “the Constitution and your common sense,” concluding their defense even as Senate GOP leaders struggled to block demands for new witnesses that could throw the trial into turmoil.

In a closed-door meeting following closing remarks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told colleagues he doesn’t have the votes to block witnesses, according to people familiar with his remarks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them. Just four GOP senators would have to join with Democrats to produce the majority needed to call witnesses — an outcome McConnell has sought to avoid since it could invite new controversy and draw out the divisive proceedings.

An initial vote to allow witnesses, expected Friday, doesn’t ensure witnesses would actually be called, since the Senate would have to subsequently hold separate votes on summoning each individual witness. And Trump’s ultimate acquittal still remains all but assured, since a two-thirds vote would be required to remove him in the GOP-run Senate.

Does the liberal news media ever have actual named sources nowadays? Regardless, even calling witnesses in an attempt to hurt Trump won’t matter: even if Trump attempted a quid pro quo, that’s politics. There are not enough votes. This is about politics for the 2020 election. Democrats are criminalizing normal, everyday, run of the mill politics. Weaponizing it. They should have been careful, because it can boomerang back on them in the future. And in the near term

Graham Predicts 51 GOP Sens. Will Vote for Testimony from Bidens: Hunter Turned Ukraine into ‘ATM Machine’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), while talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Senate impeachment trial, predicted that a majority of Republican senators would likely vote in favor of testimony from former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and the “whistleblower.”

Graham also said Republicans would be interested in hearing from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) official who allegedly worked with Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

“I’ll make a prediction; there will be 51 Republican votes to call Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, the whistleblower, and the DNC staffer at the very minimum. (snip)

You have to be willfully blind and say that Democratic misconduct doesn’t matter to you not to believe that the [U.S.] president had a good reason to ask the Ukraine to look into the Biden affair… as much as I like Joe Biden, he needs to answer questions of why he allowed his son to continue to receive millions of dollars from [allegedly corrupt Ukrainian company] Burisma when he should’ve known it was a conflict of interest.”

The only reason to call Hunter is to note that he had zero experience, zero knowledge, for the “job” at Burisma. That sets the stage to call Joe, who would be pleading the 5th quite a bit. But, being Joe, he’ll want to yammer a lot, especially after they play the video of him bragging that he extorted Ukraine with $1 billion in aid if they didn’t fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.

Let’s call that prosecutor (well, ask if they’d like to testify). Let’s call the whistleblower. Let’s call witness 18. Let’s call pro-Trump witnesses, since the House tried to call anti-Trump ones.

Democrats wanted to create an issue to stop Trump’s re-election in 2020. That’s why they want Bolton. Well, the GOP should drop the napalm on the Democrats with anti-Dem witnesses. At the end of the day, there are not 67 who will vote to kick Trump out, so, fight fire with fire, hurt the Democrat chances to win in 2020. Not just the White House, but Senate and House.