Rush Limbaugh hit the nail on the head yesterday when he said, "We are clearly not living in a real world, folks.  We're living in a Democrat, media-generated illusion, a fantasyland."

A fair trial is a constitutional right, guaranteed any and every defendant in America, except seemingly the president.  The House impeachment process was clearly unfair to the president, as he, his attorneys, and his party were not permitted the opportunity to challenge any fact, or call any witness in his defense.  In the president's words, a sham.

With Republicans holding the majority in the Senate, there appeared to be some chance that fairness could be brought to the process.  See Rush's comment above.  The Senate process has become a joke, a sham, a Democrat, media-generated illusion.  

After three days of repetitive half-truths being advanced from Shifty Schiff, his co-managers, and their media sycophants, the president's legal team took two hours to destroy their (non-)case.

Lo and behold, at the eleventh hour, a bombshell (unsubstantiated) got dropped into the proceedings: John Bolton allegedly has written (although nobody has seen it) that the president insisted that the Ukrainians open an investigation into the Bidens before their military aid money would be released.

Two things.  1. This type of eleventh-hour, unsubstantiated claim was made against Justice Kavanaugh, to no avail.  2. If said claim has any validity, and if Bolton's testimony becomes necessary (according to Mitt Romney) to help convict the president, then the president and his attorneys should be given every opportunity to prove that the president's demand, to open an investigation into the Bidens, had merit.  To this end, they should be able to call any witness that they deem necessary to help clear the air, with regards to Joe and Hunter Biden's dealings in Burisma.  Why would a witness for the prosecution be granted an opportunity to speak and the defense not have an opportunity to thoroughly rebut (except to advance the Left's silent coup against our president)?

To this end, Republicans should (forcefully) move away from the Democrat-created concept of witness bartering.  The Senate is in charge of this process. The head of the Republican Party is being railroaded for non-criminal acts, perpetrated by every president since our Founding.   

If Democrats want a vote for witnesses, give them John Bolton, throw in Mick Mulvaney for good measure, and we'll call Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, the whistleblower, Shifty Schiff, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama.

Mister Schiff: What interaction did you have with the whistleblower prior to his making his complaint to congress?

Mister Romney: What is/was the extent of your involvement in Burisma?

Mister Obama: Joe invoked your name when he threatened to have the Ukrainian prosecutor fired.  Was the firing his idea or yours?  What did you know about Hunter Biden's involvement in Burisma, and when did you know it?  

Take an up-or-down vote.  You want witnesses?  These are your options.  Take it or leave it.  Methinks that an immediate closure of the impeachment process would promptly ensue.  Rather than watch four or five quisling Republicans extend this sham beyond its rightful death, let the Democrats go on record as having quashed the witnesses.  Take away their "unfair trial" talking point.

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