{"id":120887,"date":"2021-02-08T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120887"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:58:13","slug":"dems-do-not-plan-to-call-impeachment-witnesses-in-trump-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-do-not-plan-to-call-impeachment-witnesses-in-trump-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Do Not Plan To Call Impeachment Witnesses In Trump Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-do-not-plan-to-call-impeachment-witnesses-in-trump-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120887&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/djt-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrats say they are not planning to call witnesses at former President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial this week, creating a stark contrast to Trump\u2019s first impeachment trial, where Republicans and Democrats jostled over issuing witness subpoenas for days ahead of proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/07\/democrats-trump-second-impeachment-466152\">Politico reports<\/a>, Democrats say they\u2019re going to rely on the \u201clived experience\u201d of individuals in Congress who were at the United States Capitol building the day rioters breached the doorways and threatened lawmakers voting on whether to certify the results of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Democrats are making it clear they\u2019re taking a different approach than they did for Trump\u2019s infamous Ukraine call. Now, they say their experience as witnesses to the Jan. 6 insurrection is enough,\u201d the outlet reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is based on a public crime,\u201d Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told Politico. \u201cHis intent was unhidden and so I think there\u2019s a danger as there always is for a trial lawyer and prosecutor to over-try, to add more witnesses that prove the obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats seemed to believe the issue is enough of an open-and-shut case that witnesses were not necessary to prove Trump\u2019s intent, even though it\u2019s not entirely clear Trump demanded his supporters march to the Capitol and disrupt legislative proceedings, particularly given that the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/doj-may-charge-some-capitol-rioters-under-rico-racketeering-law\">seems to be operating on the theory that the attack on the Capitol was planned<\/a> in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The only witness Democrats have reportedly discussed bringing to the floor is Trump himself. The House impeachment managers submitted a letter to the former president\u2019s legal team last week demanding he appear at his impeachment trial and threatening to cast his refusal to testify as evidence of his guilt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021,\u201d the group said in a letter.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s attorneys responded by indicating that Trump would not testify because the proceedings are \u201cunconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As last time, the question of whether to call witnesses is double-edged. If the plaintiffs are allowed to call witnesses, the door opens to witnesses for the defense, and with Democrats demanding a swift trial so that they can return to the business of passing President Joe Biden\u2019s agenda, it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019ll agree to a prolonged proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also likely that Democrats lack the votes to bring witnesses, just like last time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe witness debate last year consumed Trump\u2019s first impeachment trial, which lasted nearly three weeks. Senate Republicans chose to punt the question of whether to bring in witnesses to the end of the trial. In the end, only two Republicans \u2014 Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine \u2014 joined Democrats in voting to allow officials like John Bolton to testify, leaving Democrats short of the 51 votes needed,\u201d Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s trial begins this week, once both Republicans and Democrats have settled on how the Senate will conduct business.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats say they are not planning to call witnesses at former President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial this week, creating a stark contrast to Trump\u2019s first impeachment trial, where Republicans and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892885,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3676,3933,3636,4025,3634,4209],"class_list":["post-120887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-call","tag-dems","tag-impeachment","tag-plan","tag-trump","tag-witnesses"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}