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To: koan who wrote (1178961)	11/17/2019 11:46:06 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573645

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuted Republicans' claims that President Trump has not had the opportunity for due process in the impeachment inquiry, saying that the president has "every opportunity to present his case." "The president could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants," Pelosi said in an exclusive interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan that aired Sunday. "He has every opportunity to present his case." Pelosi also said that she believed the president's actions were worse than those of former President Richard Nixon. Transcript: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on "Face the Nation""But it's really a sad thing. I mean, what the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did, that at some point Richard Nixon cared about the country enough to recognize that this could not continue," Pelosi said. Mr. Nixon resigned before the House could vote on impeachment.

To: koan who wrote (1178961)	11/18/2019 12:00:25 AM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 1573645

The Bananas Impeachment Plan November 17, 2019 Posted by George Parry Commentary So far the Democrats’ impeachment proceedings have been so one-sided and devoid of fundamental fairness that they give kangaroo courts a bad name. The preliminary witness interrogations have been conducted in a secret subterranean bunker, the Republican minority has been denied subpoena power, its ability to question witnesses has been severely curtailed, the President’s lawyers have been excluded, and so on. And those procedural restrictions and more have prevailed in the public hearings conducted by Rep. Adam Schiff (D. USSR). These proceedings have been so one-sided that it is hard not to laugh at the farcical level of unfairness to which they have sunk. So, is there any historical precedent to which the impeachment hearings can aptly be compared? There is, and it comes to us courtesy of Woody Allen’s 1971 comic masterpiece Bananas. Here’s a link to a trailer for the movie which will give you a bit of the plot. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a hapless soul, who winds up being tried for treason. At one point during the trial, after being tied to a chair and gagged, he cross examines one of the prosecution witnesses. Here’s the link to that scene. Take a look and ask yourselves how much longer it will be before Schiff has the Republican committee members tied to their chairs and gagged.