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I watched every minute of the pubic impeachment inquiries. Schiff and Nadler were rude to the minority members of the Republican party. Moreover, Schiff and Nadler violated the parliamentary rules to quash the Republican members’ motions in their House of Representatives committees. I watched with glee as Schiff and Nadler clutched their metaphoric pearls and cried how unfair they were being treated in the Republican-majority Senate.

Schiff and Senator Chuck Schumer rushed to the media cameras at every opportunity to cry how unfair Mitch McConnell was treating the House managers in this Senate trial of President Trump. During the opening arguments, Schiff and Nadler said they had overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence that will render convictions on both articles of impeachment. 

The problem with the first article of impeachment is there isn’t a criminal statute[Abuse of Power]. As for the second article of impeachment, Contempt of Congress, the Department of Justice’s career attorneys informed the White House that the House of Representatives had not issued the subpoenas for testimonies and documents lawfully under the rules as put forth in the constitution. The White House’s counsel informed Schiff and Nadler, but neither made the effort to correct the discrepancy. Additionally, the White House had the right to challenge the subpoenas in the courts. 

When a member of the Trump administration did go to a court upon receipt of a subpoena for his testimony, Schiff withdrew the subpoena. 

Seeing that they were losing their case for the article of Abuse of Power, the House managers tried to sneak the additional charge of bribery into the trial. The counsel for the President rightly asserted that action by the House managers would have caused a mistrial in a court of law. 

Even though the House managers all declared their case was overwhelming and incontrovertible against President Trump; they demand more witnesses. They wrongly declared this wasn’t a trial because no witnesses had testified. In fact, the House managers had shown the testimonials of 17 witnesses under oath for their 24 hours that had been allotted to them. To my astonishment, Nadler said if the Republican Senators didn’t vote for additional witnesses, then their no vote was a vote of treachery.

I will remind you, my most esteemed reader, Donald Trump is the defendant and the burden of proof is on the House managers. Schiff tried to deny the President’s counsel the right to cross-examine the 17 witnesses if the Senate did vote to have additional witnesses. The Senate rejected the motion for additional witnesses.  

To my glee, the President’s counsel pounded the House managers on these two claims; 1. Donald Trump is a threat to our national security. 2. We have overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence to remove Donald J. Trump from the presidency.

The President’s counsel played videos of Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff, and a parade of other Democrats saying Trump is a threat to our national security and he must be removed immediately. The problem with that claim is the House went on a vacation after the members voted and passed the article of impeachment and Pelosi held the articles of impeachment for a month before walking them over to the Senate. Of course, this goes toward the lack of credibility of the Democrats to bring these charges.

As for the claim to have overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence, Nadler and Schiff asked the Senators to become investigators. The Senators serve as the jurist. I have been to a few trials as a spectator and a jurist. I wasn’t asked as a jurist to search for more evidence or more witnesses. As a spectator, I did not see the prosecution charge the jury either on both tasks.

Then the House managers began to demonstrate their ability to both time-travel while mindreading. It was a grand spectacle to behold. The House managers would say, President Trump thought this at this moment when he learned this fact. Hakeem Jerry, one of the House managers, was not to be outdone in his ability to mindread. He said of Putin, “Putin does not care about the Russian people. He goes to bed every night with just one thought in his head, how can I destroy America.” Not only was that time-traveling, mindreading, Hakeem Jerry, also demonstrated that he could do both mindreading and time-traveling over vast distances.

The President’s counsel introduced the statements of President Zelennskyy and other Ukrainian officials that said Ukraine wasn’t pressured to do anything as a condition to receive the aid from the United States. To my astonishment, Schiff all but call President Zelenskyy and the other Ukrainian officials liars. For that insult to Ukraine, if I were President Zelenskyy, I would send covert operatives to visit Adam Schiff.

All of this flurry of activity was generated by one phone call by President Trump that lasted 7 minutes. Despite what you have heard from the Democrats and the media, President Trump did not make any demands to President Zelenskyy during the phone call. There was no request for an investigation. President Trump did request that President Zelenskyy to look into the event of the firing of the prosecutor that was looking into the corruption at the company named, Burisma Holdings. Hunter Biden had a board position at Burisma that paid him $83K per month. Hunter only attended a few board meetings. Joe Biden conditioned a billion dollars of aid upon the firing of this prosecutor.