The dilatory tactics of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to keep the Senate impeachment trial going with constant demands for new witnesses and new evidence is intended to tarnish the president with the stain of impeachment “forever.”  It will also give media the opportunity to prosecute Trump’s impeachment on CNN and MSNBC, and in the New York Times and Washington Post, for the purpose of turning the public against Trump and his reelection, no matter what happens in the Senate.

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They know they cannot get a guilty verdict in the upper chamber, so they will strive mightily for a guilty verdict from the public with a new Christine Blasey Ford emerging daily; Lev Parnas is merely the first.

Like synchronized swimmers, Media heads will ask that day’s Julie Swetnick leading questions to get the answers they want -- something that wouldn’t be allowed in a court.  The goal is to get the public to convict Trump despite the House prosecutors’ inevitable loss in the Senate. 

The beauty of Dem/media’s ploy is that it doesn’t matter whether the Senate allows or disallows witnesses in the impeachment trial.  If they can’t get Republicans to agree to witnesses, they will cry, “Coverup!”  If there is additional testimony, Republican witnesses will be ignored by media with the expectation that many voters will not seek the truth.

Even so, some believe it might benefit McConnell and the Republicans to allow some prosecution witnesses as a tradeoff to getting testimony from defense witnesses such as Hunter Biden, “whistleblower” Ciaramella, Joe “Hands on Leadership” Biden, Schiff (I’ll take House Committee Chairmen for $100, Alex), ICIG Atkinson, and maybe even the prayerfully prating and effulgent Nancy Pelosi (complete with her “good Catholic” coruscating halo). 

Exposing the whistleblower Ciaramella/Schiff/Atkinson conspiracy in the construction and submission of the complaint that precipitated impeachment has value even if media ignore it.  The problem is Schiff, Ciaramella, and Atkinson can lie with impunity.  They know there is zero chance of any repercussions.  A Democrat can’t get arrested in this town (see Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, et al).

In naming Schiff as head prosecutor for the House, the always cagey Pelosi to some degree insulates him from being called as a witness.  Nancy will paint it as a Republican dirty trick to call for his testimony and media will certainly echo that claim.  The same goes should they seek testimony from her.

People have been questioning Speaker Pelosi’s strategy during the entire impeachment process.  Schiff and Nadler’s hearings, filled with secondhand witnesses and hearsay evidence that wouldn’t hold up in any court, were an exercise in onanism more than an actual impeachment investigation.

In addition, the Articles of Impeachment adopted by House included 2 charges that weren’t even crimes, much less “high crimes and misdemeanors”: Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress.

In what seemed to be tactical mistakes by Pelosi, the investigation was deliberately truncated because of “urgency.”  Then the Articles of Impeachment were withheld as she tried to control rules for the Senate trial and force the further investigation and witness testimony “urgency” prevented in the House.  This despite Pelosi having no power or leverage over the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans.

Pelosi knows the Democrats are losing on impeachment.  Now she’s afraid they’re also losing the 2020 Presidential Election.

None of the leading Democratic Party candidates can beat Trump in November.  Pinning Warren and Sanders in the Senate for a months-long trial and having Biden’s campaign destroyed by testimony doesn’t hurt because Bloomberg and Buttigieg are waiting in the wings.  Both may be mere adumbrations of a sane candidate, but the others are outright crazy.  And neither Biden, nor Warren, nor Sanders in any case, can beat even an “impeached forever” Trump.

Biden may be the front-runner in the Democrats’ quest for the presidency, but Trump will overwhelm him.  Imagine Biden on CNN standing behind Erin Burnett, smelling her hair and telling her about the blond hairs on his legs, loved by so many minority children when he was a lifeguard at a mixed-race pool ruled by Corn Pop.  It’s not hard to imagine the Trump campaign commercial, “Biden: he stands behind young girls everywhere.

All Trump would need for Sanders is a 30-spot with pictures of the socialist’s honeymoon in Russia while the Beatles song Back in the USSR plays and Trump intones the aphorism (hopefully), “America will never be a socialist country.”

He’d have the most fun with Warren who, as the stock market crashes at the thought of her presidency just before Election Day, will come out as a transsexual minority woman.   Trump will tweet her picture with the line, “I was born a poor black child.”  (Apologies to Steve Martin.)

No, best to blow them up now in the hopes a moderate-sounding candidate like Bloomberg or a gay candidate like Buttigieg can give Trump a fight.

With the Democrats and media continuing to investigate and portray every little thing as the “walls closing in,” and the “noose tightening” they can possibly keep the trial going on through November tying up the Senate and halting all Senate business.  No judges will be approved because the Senators must attend the trial, an advantage in itself, and doubly so considering the frailty of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Some say the only hope the Republicans have is to hear the House case and the President’s defense and then immediately vote to dismiss.  But it really doesn’t matter what the Republicans do.  If they dismiss immediately or allow witnesses, the Democrats and their propaganda arm, the media, will continue their impeachment of Donald Trump in the press.

Pelosi’s gambit is doomed to failure, but it’s all she has.

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