If you watched and binged on all the drama from both The House managers and the Trump Attorney Team, just one vote separated an even 50-50 draw to allow witnesses.
Muzzled with the imposition of imprisonment if they didn't stay silent, during breaks to the Cloak Room or caught in the hallways and basement, they kept the media machine fed.
Only 2 Republicans broke rank. That wasn't enough
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He could only maintain order and read out-loud mostly loaded questions submitted by either side.
In the course of the trial days John Roberts admonished both sides just once, and one time refused to read a submitted question that would have exposed the name of a protected witness.
Outside of the Senate, the defendant in the impeachment trial, Donald Trump, took to Twitter to add his own invective off-the-official-record that was streaming in the 24-hour news cycle.
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SNL cold open imagines Trump impeachment hearings as a Judge Mathis-style reality courtroom drama
Cecily Strong portrays John Bolton.
It should come as no surprise that the impeachment proceedings have been something of a boon for “Saturday Night Live.”
Instead, we got the impeachment cleverly reimagined as a soap opera and a short trip to literal hell (i.e. Satan’s joint) with attorney Alan Dershowitz, as portrayed by Jon Lovitz.
This week was no different. Given the news from Washington, D.C., is arguably petering out, the show imagined “The Trial You Wish Had Happened,” a spoof on daytime courtroom reality shows. In fact, Judge Mathis (Kenan Thompson) presided over this satirical trial in which witnesses actually testified. . .
The funniest moment came courtesy of a besuited Pete Davidson, who rode in on a hoverboard, vape in hand, as Hunter Biden.
> He admitted he’s now “on the board of a Brazilian money-laundering company called Nepotismo.”
> When asked he if only got the job because of his father, former vice president Joe Biden, Davidson’s character responded, “That’s right. I’ve been selling Biden steaks from my office at the top of Biden Tower and letting foreign leaders stay at Biden-A-Lago.
Oh, no, wait. That’s the president’s sons! Ya burnt!”
. . . the sketch was a long windup to Alec Baldwin’s Trump appearing — coming into the courtroom with a walker, a reference to Harvey Weinstein showing up at his own trial with one — to say that “I’m guilty, but it ain’t no thang!”
“Ladies and Gentlemen of this government place, what I’ve learned from this trial is that clearly nothing I do or say has any consequence, so I’d like to come clean about everything.
- The call with the Ukraine wasn’t perfect; it was illegal. And, frankly, it was a butt dial.
- Also I watch CNN all the time, and it’s awesome,” he said before adding that he hates Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and West Virginia (“Sorry, West Carolina.”)
- He admitted to cheating at “golf, taxes, wives, elections, bathroom scales.”
- He added that he’s 475 pounds in reality and doesn’t need the walker but likes that it makes it easy to be lazy.
- Finally, he’s thrilled to now be best friends with McConnell.
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