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StarfishSaver

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5. This "What about the witnesses" is pure bullshit
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 01:11 PM
Feb 2021

They can't deal with the fact that the House managers did a magnificent job and managed to get more Republicans than expected to vote to convict Trump - they're already bored with that story so they've glommed onto the "Why weren't WITNESSES called?!" as if not calling witnesses screwed something up or changed the outcome.

The press - and some Democrats who see politics as entertainment - wanted witnesses because they think it would have been exciting and fun, not because they have any reason to believe that witnesses were necessary, would have offered any new information or evidence, or would have resulted in a different outcome.

So today, they are engaging in false equivalence and "whataboutism" and the ultimate bothsiderism, giving as much time and outrage to the fact that the House managers didn't drag the process out further with pointless witnesses as they are to the fact that 43 Republicans just gave a free pass to a president who incited a deadly insurrection.

This is ridiculous.

Amy Klobuchar on Jonathan Capehart NJCher Feb 2021 #1
This "What about the witnesses" is pure bullshit StarfishSaver Feb 2021 #5
Huh leighbythesea2 Feb 2021 #2
Politico?? Okay. niyad Feb 2021 #3
"Multiple sources close to the impeachment managers" StarfishSaver Feb 2021 #4
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