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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He has to be called as a witness. The Senate's verdict loses all credibility otherwise.[/quote]

So why didn't Shiff call him?

What changed?  He wasn't needed in the house.[/quote]
The House requested that Bolton testify, but he said he would not -- on the instructions of the WH -- without a court-ruled-on subpoena. [/quote]

And, Pelosi, et al, did not issue a subpoena to Bolton AND they withdrew their subpoena for Kupperman.  
It is not the Senate's role to tidy up the mess the House left.  If the Dems thought that Bolton's testimony was so important, they should have subpoenaed him and had the courts enforce it, if necessary.  
And, don't say it would have taken "years."  It would not have..... the Dems simply had the self-imposed deadline of "finishing it before Christmas" so they rushed it along.

Nancy Pelosi is looking less and less like the strategic genius that the Dems claim she is.  [/quote]

The House had enough evidence to prosecute a grand jury indictment, which is its role. The Senate has an obligation to run a trial. It isn't "cleaning up the House's mess" - that is simply fake news and a really bad take on Constotutional duties.[/quote]

Exactly. The House produces the rough equivalent of an indictment, which simply means they rendered a judgment saying they think charges should be brought (aka whether a trial should happen).

A trial includes discovery--collecting materials of potential relevance to the case--and deposing/cross-examining witnesses. The House did its job by producing a judgment. It's now up to the Senate to conduct a trial. [/quote]
+2 This is the most simple fact that Trump proponents are either too uninformed or deliberately obtuse to acknowledge.

Not to mention that every single impeachment trial in our history has had additional witnesses testify in the Senate trial that the House investigation did not have testify.[/quote]

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