The impeachment trial of President Trump began on January 21st.  As this is written, after the first 12 hours of proceedings, there is in the air what Tennessee Williams would call “a powerful and obnoxious odor.”  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  This picture neatly summarizes the substance of the Democrat arguments in the Senate.   Surprising no one, the most obnoxious offender was Adam Schiff (for brains).  When reviewing the words of Schiff, it is necessary to separate what he says from what actually happened.  Again one picture says it best –

That’s right, you need to tell the shit from Shinola.  Giving the delusional bastard his due, it must be noted that Schiff acts like he really believes the crap he says.  More’s the pity.  Schiff told the Senate the evidence against the president is overwhelming.  He then told them that, unless the Senate lets him go out and look for more evidence to prove his case, the trial is unfair.  Schiff also lied (again) about the so-called new evidence.  That great legal scholar Jerry Nadler actually warned that unless Democrats are permitted to seek out more evidence to win their “overwhelming and undisputed case” the Senators would be guilty of a coverup.  Put aside for a moment the fact that reopening the investigation during the trial is absolutely unconstitutional, and ask yourself this question.  In a sane world where logic prevails, why would a prosecutor with an overwhelming case need to look for any more evidence?  The case should have been dismissed right there, but this farce went on from 1 p.m. till after midnight, with needless procedural vote after needless procedural vote.  The Senate rules for the trial provided the Democrats 2 days to argue their case.  Mitch McConnell further accommodated the Dems by giving them an additional day to show the Senate what they’ve got.  Then, after the President’s counsel presents the defense, there will be a vote on whether to hear from witnesses.  In other words, the detestable Chuck Schumer didn’t have to waste 10 hours attempting to get permission to subpoena witnesses and documents that the House of Representatives neglected to pursue.  The rules were sensible.  Now, for my money, the House should be limited to arguing its case based solely on what is included in the four corners of the impeachment articles they brought.  In other words, their case should be limited to the evidence they relied on in voting the articles.  This is in accordance with due process of law.  You shouldn’t be dragged into court on one set of evidence, and then be required to defend against something else.  But McConnell gave Democrats more leeway.  To appease the shaky or downright mutinous Republican Senators (Romney, Collins, Murkowski, Gardner), he has allowed a vote on witnesses.  Schumer couldn’t wait, however, because what’s going on in the Senate is not really a trial.  It’s a show.  And given the performers involved, it’s a Schumer-Schiff show.  They know they can’t prove their case because they have no case, and it’s not really about proving anything, it’s about inflicting as much damage on the President as possible to weaken him in the upcoming election.  The monumental hypocrisy of Chuck Schumer is no better exposed than in reviewing his remarks at the 1999 Clinton impeachment trial.  Keep in mind that Bill Clinton was implicated in 11 criminal violations, and that the House has alleged no violation of any law by President Trump.  Here’s what Chucky said in 1999.  “We stand at the brink of removing a president – not because of a popular groundswell to remove him and not because of the the magnitude of the wrongs he’s committed – but because (of) … a small group of people who hate [him] and hate his policies.”  “If you had asked me one year ago if people like this with such obvious political motives could use our courts, play the media and tantalize the legislative branch to achieve their ends of bringing down the president, I would have said ‘not a chance – that doesn’t happen in America.'”  “It seems we have lost the ability to forcefully advocate for our position without trying to criminalize or at least dishonor our adversaries.”  “If the cycle of political recrimination and the scandalizing continues, the American people will become more alienated and cynical and shaken by the political process and they too, will lose faith in the great instrument the Founding Fathers have given us.”  “Let’s shake hands and say we are now going to forego bringing down people for political gain.”  Everything Chuck Schumer said and predicted in 1999 has come to pass.  If he had one ounce of integrity, or even the slightest degree of intellectual honesty, he wouldn’t be doing what he’s doing now.  He doesn’t.  The Democrats have no choice but to keep telling their lies.  Have you seen their 2020 presidential candidates?  It’s all they’ve got.  What they say doesn’t have to be true.  It doesn’t even have to make sense legally.  They want to call witnesses and demand documents subject to executive privilege.  Schiff argued that the President really didn’t raise executive privilege during the House investigation.  What really happened is that the House withdrew the subpoenas and decided not to contest privilege in the courts.  The Dems actually told the Senate, and the Chief Justice of the United States that the courts have no place in the process.  Bull Schiff!  If a House subpoena can be challenged on grounds of privilege, a Senate subpoena can be challenged on the same ground.  In other words, the Senate cannot compel John Bolton or the President’s chief of staff to testify anymore than the House could.  The Dems know it.  They just what to make it appear that the President is hiding something.  It’s a sham, and the Senate shouldn’t stand for it.  My advice is, the Senate should politely hear everything the Democrats have to say, and then ask Schiff what a Superior Court Judge once asked one of my adversaries, “Yeah, but that’s bullshit, right?”  Case dismissed!