Here’s my take on what went down today in the senate. First, as you will recall, I said previously that the Dems did a snap impeachment without any investigation or hearings because they wanted to do it before he left office. However they then waited two weeks to send it to the senate. Again as I said previously, they took that time to actually do what should have been before the vote and prepare a case, but they couldn’t start deposing witnesses after the vote without looking stupid. Another potential reason for holding the article for two weeks was because McConnell and the republicans were still the majority in the senate during that time and could have voted it unconstitutional to impeach a former president.

So now with no actual evidence, they strung together a bunch of doctored videos and false propositions and tried to get us to buy their crap by making the riots seem horrific and then expecting our emotions to convict Trump without any evidence that he was responsible.

Yesterday, Trump’s lawyers eviscerated the house managers and their case and it was broadly reported as such. So today in order to try to save face the house managers wanted to start calling and deposing witnesses. Actually just two — a RINO congresswoman from Washington state ( nuff said) and house minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Supposedly McCarthy told the congresswoman that Trump said in a phone call with him something favorable about the rioting. McCarthy has apparently denied it but that’s all they got so they wanted to do it. Of course they had the votes since they only needed one RINO and so they got that vote.

But wisely, Trump’s lawyers said if there are going to be witnesses then we have a hundred or so that we want including the likes of Pelosi, and believe me I would love to see that. As I have said previously, serious questions remain about why the Capitol was left virtually unprotected and why the rioters were waved in some doors. It appears that they wanted something to happen so they could go after Trump again.

Now faced with the possibility that the whole scam would get exposed and the Dems would look bad, the house managers agreed to a compromise. Let us put in her write up and then there will be no witnesses and we can end the charade. So that’s what happened and Trump was acquitted which was a forgone conclusion.

Now a couple more points. The Washington post published something very recently suggesting that the Dems had the votes to deny Trump to call any witnesses and shouldn’t have caved to the compromise. That’s as stupid as most things they write. Already under a withering attack yesterday about the total lack of due process in the house, the public relations disaster of letting the house managers call witnesses but not Trump would be a serious problem for the left.

The Trump team outplayed them. House managers got to put in unsupported hearsay document and go back to what I said about Comey’s bogus notes if you need a refresher. And Trump got it ended today.

The other thing that I will mention is why Lindsey Graham switched his vote to vote for allowing witnesses. If you remember, from the beginning Graham has said if they were going to call witnesses then he wanted to call the FBI and Capitol police and others on what they knew in advance and why they didn’t act on it.