Watching, listening and reading about the political chaos Trump’s impeachment trial is causing in America on the political front is pathetic. A pathetic political impeachment game that comedians and late night talk show hosts are milking to the max — at the public’s expense.
White House lawyers and House Managers arguing even before Supreme Court Justice John Roberts gaveled the proceedings into session, over rules on the first day of the impeachment trial in the Senate, arguing whether the Senate should subpoena witnesses and documents, or whether the case against Trump is “ridiculous” and “outrageous” threat to the Republic, how long opening debates and arguments should be, whether 24 hours of debate over two-12-hour sessions which Democrats attacked as “rigged” or three days, was a depressing waste of time and money.
Visiting America during the impeachment trial is a wake up call as to how broken America’s democratic political process has become. With the impeachment trial officially underway, the four Democratic Senators, Michael Bennet, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, running for president, are now impeachment jurors and have to rely on surrogates to keep their campaigns moving, not only in Iowa, but the key early states of New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
Depriving Americans of the opportunity to see candidates running for the highest office in the land because of an impeachment trial that everyone agrees is a sham, a foregone conclusion that Trump will win because the Democrats won’t be able to get the necessary number of Republican Senators needed for Trump to be impeached.
Yet the political game and questions continue.
Did Speaker Pelosi delay submitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate to give Democratic Party insider and establishment candidate, former Vice President Joe Bidden, a clear shot at winning in the early Iowa caucus and primaries by tying up the front runners Sanders and Warren in Washington?
Is the impeachment trial an attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election and double down to prevent the president’s 2020 re-election?
Should new evidence and witnesses be admitted being the most contentious issue in the rules debate. As senators argue over how to conduct the impeachment trial, a Monmouth University poll taken before the trial got underway, 57% of respondents say House Managers should be able to present new evidence.
But since when do career politicians listen to the people that elected them? They prefer to play partisan politics and the country and democracy be damned.
What a sad state of political affairs!