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LordoftheMorons posted...

People like Gardner apparently think it's in their political interest not to call witnesses, in any case.

I think he's made the calculation that his only chance is to go full MAGA. But like... "good luck."

MalcolmMasher posted...

Figure that the preferred Republican talking point is "impeachment was a farce orchestrated by the opposition-controlled House". It seems that the Senate refusing to hear witnesses would support that angle. On the other hand, if e.g. John Bolton testifies under oath that Trump was using U.S. foreign policy for his own personal and political benefit, then the right-wing spin doctors may have to fall back to "Trump's actions are reprehensible, but no actual punishment is appropriate". And, hopefully, that gets some of the moral conservatives and undecideds to conclude that maybe someone who is acknowledged as corrupt by their own party doesn't deserve to remain in office.

Dobbs unirionically ran with a Bolton picture subtitled "Tool of the Left?" so like I don't think Bolton testifying against Trump would be some moral light in the darkness to a few wayward Republicans. Trump's strategy, and by extension the GOP's, is just "He's a liar! Disgruntled because he was a loser who got fired!" stuff and the base will fall into lockstep behind it.

And it's not like not calling Bolton means the Senate also cancelled his book, this stuff is going to come up out in a few months either way. They'll obviously call it all lies then too but they can have fun answering why they didn't take their opportunity to get him under oath.

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