PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on January 25, 2020, 07:04:36 PM
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-trial-democrats-burisma-bait-and-switch/?amp
They deny Trump the right to present a defense, then complain that he has produced no evidence.
Imagine you get indicted in a swindle. The prosecutors represent that they can prove you and your alleged co-conspirators planned to fleece a major financial institution. You counter that you weren’t fleecing anyone. Sure, you were asking for millions in loans, but the collateral you were prepared to post was real, and so were the businesses in which you were planning to invest the loan proceeds. The capital injection, you thought, would spur the commerce that would enable you to pay off the loan.
When you get to court, though, you are horrified to learn that the judge is excluding your defense. The prosecutors peremptorily assert that it’s all a big lie. The judge doesn’t want to hear your constitutional claims about the rights to present a defense and call witnesses; your motion to subpoena evidence is denied.
Then, at the trial, not only do the prosecutors establish that you planned to take millions from the bank; they tell the jury there was not a shred of evidence that you had any legitimate collateral or business investment prospects. The whole thing, they insist, was a scam. That is, they stop you from presenting your defense, and then they argue that you should be convicted because you have no defense.
It sounds like something out of Kafka. It would never be tolerated in the U.S. judicial system: no competent judge would bar an accused from attempting to prove his defense; and if one did, any conviction would be reversed on appeal. It would not matter whether the prosecutor’s proof was convincing; having one’s day in court means having an opportunity to present any exculpatory evidence.
Yet what I’ve just described is essentially what House Democrats have done to President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial on the matter of the Bidens and Burisma.
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I would love to hear liberals try to defend what they did in House impeachment sham and what they want to do in the Senate trial.
go ahead liberals, man up, and defend what those (d) congresscritters have done and are trying to do.
if you dare...
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FOX has gone liberal, but not all the way. They are still the only place I heard tell that those (D) Congresscritters that are prosecuting Trump, saying that he denied vital military aid to an ally so they could defend themselves from Russia; all voted AGAINST that aid package.
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FOX has gone liberal, but not all the way. They are still the only place I heard tell that those (D) Congresscritters that are prosecuting Trump, saying that he denied vital military aid to an ally so they could defend themselves from Russia; all voted AGAINST that aid package.
I cut the cable a long time ago so haven't seen Fox News in a while other than occasionally viewing their website and a clip here and there of Tucker, or The Five.
The Murdoch sons are both Globalist, Progressives so it was expected Fox would swerve a bit to the Left, but you're right, they are one of the few where you here some truth. Other than maybe the morning show from what I hear, Tucker, Laura, Hannity and some of the Five it is largely left leaning now.