Breaking: New - Trump trial could go into next week, maybe even mid-week (UPDATED)

[Dennis Donovan]

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John Bresnahan ✔ @BresPolitico

New - Trump trial could go into next week, maybe even mid-week. Senators and WH want more time for closing arguments, Iowa caucus on Monday and State of the Union complicating timing. All very fluid right now

11:45 AM - Jan 31, 2020

There goes Trump's SOTU exoneration!

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Manu Raju ✔ @mkraju

Big reason why final acquittal vote may not happen til next week: Each senator is entitled to 15 minutes. Collins and Murkowksi want timeframe similar to Clinton trial, which was three days of deliberations, source says. Dems are warning of amendments if that timeframe not given


Also, the Senate floor will be shut down Tuesday afternoon for a security sweep before the State of the Union.

The White House wants it done by the SOTU, but given the demands of senators to speak, it's unclear whether McConnell can make th

3:16 PM - Jan 31, 2020

[TruckFump]

1. I want that orange POS still in trial on the SOU

I am hoping that he will act out and make a total fool of himself before Congress and the American public.

[Blaukraut]

6. Me too. While 'no witnesses' benefits us, imo, I want to deny him a victory lap

Let him sulk his way through the SB interview and drown in flop sweat while giving a generic SOTU address that will no doubt be written over the weekend as the plan b speech.

[leftieNanner]

2. Nope

I doubt this very seriously. No way The Orange One and Moscow Mitch allow this thing to go beyond today.

I will be happy to eat my words, but I don't think this will happen.

[jimfields33]

3. Tomorrow latest

Breaking news Bolton says trump told him about his Ukraine drug deal way earlier then has been reported. This will go on forever....news about this I mean.

[leftieNanner]

7. Oh, you are right, this will go on forever

The NYT is reporting today that Trump directed Bolton to get involved in Rudy's campaign to pressure Ukraine to dig up dirt.

We need SCOTUS to force the release of his tax returns too.

[jimfields33]

11. Yep. Trump has so many skeletons that I can't see how there are any left at

Medical schools.

[leftieNanner]

12. LOL

Thanks for the chuckle.

Some of those bones are gonna start falling out of the closet.

[Hortensis]

22. :) Nicolle Wallace thinks the May date of the new Bolton disclosure

is huge and a disaster for all the senators who want to vote to block witnesses. I'm feeling dumb because I don't "feel" that last that's obvious to her.

But the NYT published this new bit while the Repubs were in meeting, and word is the fake trial is going to continue probably at least to next Wednesday, after Iowa.

[Me.]

25. A Small Victory If True

at least he won't have the opportunity to crow at the Super Bowl or walk like a conquering hero into the well of Congress on Tues. Further, it flushes his 10 mil SB ad where he's all set to proclaim, I Won. It doesn't change, so far, the fact that he will be acquitted but it keeps the story in the headlines. So I consider it a win on so many levels. I am also astounded at the weaves and curves this, the fix is in, trial, has taken.

[Hortensis]

31. Lol, good points. No "victory lap" interview with Hannity

tonight anyway.

Love that about the Super Bowl ad. I read that Trump and Bloomberg have been dueling over Super Bowl ad buys. Turns out Bloomberg also spent millions buying up google searches for Trump ads so they'll take people to Bloomberg ads.

We're astonished at the blatant fixes and other corruption, all right, and how about John Roberts, who's spent days forced to listen to "arguments" aimed at the most determinedly stupid trumpsters? I keep wondering about any and what effect on him.

[CrispyQ]

17. I agree.

He wants to use Super Bowl Sunday to chortle and then crow some more at the SOTU.

[leftieNanner]

18. Correct

And I understand that he made a $10 million ad buy for the Super Bowl.

[CrispyQ]

20. I hope it's the least watched SB ever. -nt

[in2herbs]

28. I support your position and don't intend to watch the SB. Dodging cars on the freeway

will be better for my health.

[CrispyQ]

32. I'll look out for you when I drive to the mall to enjoy the vacant stores.

[in2herbs]

38. LOL! just aim for the right hip. It's a replacement and the dr assured me it wouldn't break! nt

[Cosmocat]

23. Yeah

I thought I heard they have a massive SB ad buy with him celebrating this exoneration lined up ...

[pandr32]

4. "All very fluid right now" means senators pissing their pants.

Good! May they all have worries about lining up against our U.S. Constitution so obviously.

[Moostache]

9. Good...I hope several of them take large steaming dumps in their drawers...

Cowardly pieces of shit. The entire GOP is nothing more than low level mafia enforcers for their 0.01% benefactors and Trump, the biggest piece of shit among them.

I wish them all painful, drawn out deaths,,,the kind that drain resources and make loved ones begin the loathe the trips to the ER and long nights of no sleep and eventually just wishing it would end and be over, but then I hope they linger on further in comatose states with other piece of shit GOPers suing to prevent them from being taken off life support. That is my fantasy...rows of brain dead GOP hacks, kept alive against the wishes of their families as a ghoulish monument to this moment in the destruction of the USA.

[Boomerproud]

14. K&R!

Can't agree more

[pandr32]

21. How do you really feel!

I love the rant and have to admit I have similar thoughts.

[G_j]

10. bingo

[Iliyah]

5. WH wants more time?

LOL

[5X]

8. can't be finished yet,

Impeach has two weeks to go.

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[WhiteTara]

13. and his super bowl exoneration ad!

[jeffreyi]

15. Yay!

Foregone conclusion, but don't make it too easy for the bastards.

[Mike 03]

16. This!

[empedocles]

24. superbowl exoneration is a big one. Hope Bloom changes his sb ad to hit trump.

[Sunsky]

19. WH does not want more time

For anything that has to do with this trial. I don't believe that one.

[denem]

26. As per MSNBC

Pushback from GOP Senators. Will not commit to acquit if proceedings wind up before SOTU.

[Sunsky]

30. Exactly

WH wanted this over, so he can take his victory lap to the SOTU.

[eclecticdyslexic]

27. I think the quislings will vote to acquit by dinnertime, but I hope I'm wrong.

Keeping this alive until next week would similarly keep hope alive.

[getagrip_already]

29. maybe it's just an fu from the senate to trump....

They will still acquit him, but if they are pissed for being put through this, well, they aren't above sending a message.

[kentuck]

33. I have my doubts...

...if they have the numbers?

Could be some sort of political mischief?

[Dennis Donovan]

34. Maybe Murkowski's a yes?

That throws it to a tie, which McConnell can simply ignore. But doing so puts Roberts into an awkward situation, as he's the presiding officer over what is clear to 80% of Americans as a cover-up.

[2naSalit]

35. This is going better than we thought...

and I am sure that the Speaker is on top of next actions all they way into January next year.

[budkin]

36. Please let this be the case

If we can just get past the SOTU I'll be content.

[Dennis Donovan]

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