Thank you Minority Leader Schumer. The trial should be a complete accounting of the facts.

McConnell will be acting against his oath of office if he simply discharges the trial as a joke. McConnell thinks the Democrats are going to lie down and die at his insistence. From the statement by Minority Leader Schumer, the trial will proceed with a full complement of witnesses.

That may mean all the current proceedings in the courts regarding these people might have to reach a conclusion, unless, Chief Justice Roberts orders them to testify at the trial.

The American people deserve to have their country safe from those that abuse the offices they hold. The Impeachment Trial in the US Senate needs to be complete and not full of half-truths.

December 15, 2019
By Lauren Fox

To the right John Bolton (click here).
Senate Minority Leader Chuck 

Schumer (click here) made it clear in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Sunday night that he prefers a Senate impeachment trial with witness testimony and new documents, a direct rebuttal to top Republicans who have argued in recent days that a shorter trial without witnesses would spare the Senate from becoming a partisan circus.

To the right Robert Blair (click here).

In the letter obtained by CNN, Schumer, a New York Democrat, called for at least four witnesses to testify, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, former national security adviser John Bolton, senior adviser to the acting White House chief of staff Robert Blair and Office of Management and Budget official Michael Duffey.

"We believe all of this should be considered in one resolution. The issue of witnesses and documents, which are the most important issues facing us, should be decided before we move forward with any part of the trial," Schumer wrote in the letter, adding that he would be "open to hearing the testimony of additional witnesses."

The letter comes just days ahead of the House's expected vote to impeach President Donald Trump, which would set up a trial in the Senate....'


November 19, 2019
By Brian Bennett

It was mid-May, (click here) days before the inauguration of Ukraine’s newly elected president, and President Donald Trump’s Acting Chief of Staff seemed unusually interested in the guest list. As the White House finalized which U.S. officials would attend the event, National Security Advisor John Bolton kept taking E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland off its list, and Mick Mulvaney’s office kept adding him back on.

Mulvaney’s insistence on Sondland’s attendance at the inauguration surprised Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s director for Russia and Europe, whose office was across an alley from Mulvaney’s on the White House grounds. Ukraine is not part of the European Union and Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, had no official role at that point in the country....


October 10, 2019
By Sarah K. Burris

Michael Duffey, (cilck here) a politically appointed Office of Management and Budget official and former director of the Wisconsin Republican Party, is tangled in the new probe against President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal.

As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted, the Wall Street Journal found that Duffy was given authority by the White House to hold up the Ukraine aid that President Donald Trump was allegedly holding until Ukraine agreed to help find dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden....