The Dems are going to AMBUSH Trump in a Senate impeachment trial with the help of 'last minute' double-crossing anti-Trump RINO senators who will refuse to vote on the 'rules' unless its agreed that the final vote, whether or not to impeach, will be conducted via a SECRET BALLOT.
The secret ballot will allow ALL Senators to hide their vote from the American people. Dems are hoping that without the scrutiny and backlash of a transparent vote, enough Republican senators will be able to secretly appease their 'blackmailers' and Deep State donors by voting to impeach Trump.
Here's how I think its going to play out:
The ONLY rules 'set in stone' for an impeachment trial are that the "Chief Justice shall preside" and that the vote needs "two thirds of the members present". The rest is open slather which will be thrashed out in advance between Mitch McConnell and Schumer. However the proposed 'rules' then have to be voted on with a SIMPLE majority (i.e 51 votes); not two-thirds. And here's where things get sticky. Some of the rules Mitch wants will be challenged by the Dems--AND some RINO Republicans.
There's about 8 known anti-Trump RINO senators. Yet only 3 are needed to thwart Mitch, side with the Dems, and destroy the Republicans Senate majority. So The Dems will want to stifle the witnesses the Republicans want to call...AND they'll demand a SECRET BALLOT. And with only 3 rebel RINOs siding with the Dems, there's nothing that McConnell can do about it. He either sits pat, and the trial is permanently stalled...OR he wilts under pressue, and the MSM's outcry to end the chaos...and agrees to a secret ballot, which the rebel RINOs (along with ALL the Dems) agree to vote for.
A secret ballot in a Senate impeachment trial would be unprecedented...BUT its not illegal. And its here, imo the COUP will be 'legally' completed. This is the checkmate move Dems and the Deep State are now banking on, and barrelling toward, to finally destroy Trump.
The writing is on the wall because Schiff's kangaroo court 'inquiry' should be dead-in-the water when it hits the Senate...BUT that needs a majority vote of almost all Republican senators. Yet last week Lindsay Graham indicated, after a White House meeting, that they didn't "have the votes" for this. That means, already some RINOs, are ready to double cross.
IMO the White House should avoid a trial AT ALL COSTS. They should get a Federal and/or Supreme Court order to stop the House taking a vote on this until the proper CONSTITUTIONAL process has been undertaken (not Schiff's star chamber). This Court action should stall things for MONTHS. And IF it does reach the Senate McConnell has to stand firm in the eye of a withering storm 24/7 for DAYS by the Dems and MSM and say..."Nup"..."either our rules or no trial"
It should NEVER have reached this stage. We are now so close to losing probably the greatest U.S President ever. Pedes better prepare for this and consider what actions, if any, are possible.
These are very, very important words: The vote needs "two thirds of the members PRESENT". Not 2/3 of the total Senators.
My personal opinion: There is not a chance in hell of a ‘secret vote’ initiative passing.
Schiff has already poisoned public opinion regarding ‘secret’ process.
An unprecedented secret vote on the public trial will inspire public outrage.
Dems will not be able to sell the public on any ’valid’ reason for a secret vote.
Any RINO supporting the process will be committing political suicide.
Yeah, if they do that, good luck governing ANYTHING from that day forward. The senators will have decided to make this country a lawless state. Their votes on something as important as removal of the President must be public. D.C. would become a battlefield.
1776 is just a number
No. If that happened then the time for playing nice is over. No trials, no due process. Patriots need to step up and remove them all. It would be proof that our system has failed and they have betrayed us. No need for trials, their actions alone would be proof. I believe you would see a military coup happen immediately however.
I agree with all of the comments made only because after 3 years of continuous treasonous coup attempts, I realize anything can happen. We are in a dark age and politicians are pushing us to even darker levels on purpose.
I'd like to provide an alternative perspective.
The swamp IS being drained, and they know it! These darker and darker levels are their last ditch efforts to squirm out of the drain, but it will fail, and we will have a new enlightenment. The future is looking bright.
Thank God for Trump.
I think you are right, the swamp is fighting so hard because they have been ripping off the system for a very long time. Trump put a stop to a lot of the pay for play garbage and that really hurt them in the pocket books.
Impeachment was their last gasp, they have two things left now, one is voter fraud and the other is to JFK Trump.
If they JFK trump, the armed populous will not be happy. Much harder to to so now adays because EVERYONE will have a high def camera at the moment, and you can be damn sure the smart of us will discern what happened. Perhaps it will be their final grasp if they can...
They are already voter frauding, but that can only move the needle so much. Trump won much more massively than the results show in 2016 (I believe). He will win even bigger this time. I don't think they can voter fraud enough to cover..
I agree that President Trump's real win must have been huge, simply because he beat their cheating.
It was probably the biggest landslide election victory in American history and I'm not exaggerating.
I wish he could get the credit for that in history books.
Thank God for the founding fathers and the electoral college
I desperate hope you are correct. I will stay positive as long as humanly possible,
I think 4 are needed to defect to get to the simple majority. There are 53 Republicans in the Senate.
I doubt it'll come to that. There's too much risk of a second civil war.
Yup. They know that, and they know which side would win (rather quickly too).
One side has guns, and the other side has trouble going to the correct bathroom.
Impeachment requires 2/3 vote in the Senate
There are cuckservative Republican senators like Mitt Romney who would love to impeach Trump
Who's Romney? I only heard of Pierre Delecto.
Yeah I've been considering something like this for a while. I don't trust "our" gop senators. It doesn't matter that everyone sees the winning that Trump brings. I suspect the Deep State and globalists own many gop senators, so getting into the Senate is no safe zone.
They should look to history for some hint of what may follow their treachery:
"Aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar
The result unforeseen by the assassins was that Caesar's death precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. The Roman middle and lower classes, with whom Caesar was immensely popular and had been since before Gaul, became enraged that a small group of aristocrats had killed their champion."
They would love a secret ballot for sure, the political realities are that even the Republican members pushing for it would be finished. Remember we are talking about a trial to remove the President.