'End this': Republicans poised to call no witnesses during Trump impeachment trial in Senate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Republicans do not expect to call witnesses President Trump might want to hear from most in an impeachment trial, conceding there are not the votes to summon key figures such as Hunter Biden and the unidentified government whistleblower whose complaint sparked the process.

Senate impeachment rules require a majority vote to call witnesses, and with just two out of 53 votes to spare, there is no “appetite” among Republicans to pursue testimony from people that Democrats blocked Republicans from subpoenaing during the House investigation. Indeed, Republicans might forgo calling witnesses altogether, saying minds are made up on Trump’s guilt or innocence and that testimony at trial on the Senate floor would draw out the proceedings unnecessarily.

“Here’s what I want to avoid: This thing going on longer than it needs to,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told the Washington Examiner. “I want to end this.”

Top Republicans are leaning toward calling for a vote to acquit Trump immediately after House Democrats and the White House have delivered their arguments to head off partisan disagreements that might lengthen the trial.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/end-this-republicans-poised-to-call-no-witnesses-during-trump-impeachment-trial-in-senate/ar-BBY2yYO?li=BBnb7Kz

[Moostache]

1. So their bleating about "due process" was as expected - total bullshit.

I really loathe those bastards already. So many old white men, so few widow maker cardiac events...the universal karma needs to start balancing that equation...

[gulliver]

2. Not calling witnesses is to help Trump, of course.

They're just trying to lay the "Let's not waste precious time" groundwork in advance. They certainly won't ask Trump for the witnesses Trump is blocking. He'd just block them, and how would that look? It would look like Trump was obstructing the Senate and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Republicans have been accusing Dems of rushing things and pointing out that Turley said things should slow down. But now that that the process is in Republican hands, the Republicans will try to rush it through as fast as they can.

They won't ask for Joe or Hunter Biden. They know it would backfire. They want to keep the innuendo about Joe and Hunter easy to distort and easy to use for calumny. That's hard to do if Joe and Hunter answer all of their questions.

[Lock him up.]

3. Rushablicans don't care about their oath of office.

Rushablicans don't care about polls too.