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By John Wojcik
WASHINGTON — It was lucky for GOP senators at the impeachment trial yesterday that press cameras had been banned from the chamber and that only the stationary Senate cameras were running. Otherwise, images of them fidgeting, squirming and looking down in embarrassment as House prosecutors spoke would have been beamed into the homes of American TV viewers.
Also fidgeting was President Trump who managed to find the time, after attending the international big-time capitalist gathering in Davos, Switzerland, to send some 125 tweets commenting on the proceedings.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chief House manager and the one in charge of the prosecution, skillfully held attention for almost two hours as he condensed into a neat package the information gleaned from weeks of House hearings last year.
Just about the only conclusion even the most diehard Trump backer in the GOP could reasonably make when Schiff was done was that Trump had indeed masterminded and carried out a corrupt scheme in which he had abused his power and that he had indeed obstructed Congress but that both these things, for whatever reason they want to concoct, are not impeachable.
Some GOP senators criticized the prosecution case by cynically saying they had heard “nothing new.” It begs the questions: What else did you WANT to hear? If you heard more, then would you be satisfied?...
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