Major Fail: Nadler Doesn’t Swear in Witnesses at Judiciary Impeachment Hearings
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Two counsels for both the Democrats and Republicans had opening statements in Monday’s impeachment inquiry hearing, but there was one major problem–House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler failed to swear them in.
Though it no unusual for staff members to not be sworn in, witnesses must be sworn in so that when they deliver their testimony it is under oath.
When Democrat counsel Barry Berke and Republican Counsel Stephen Castor both delivered their opening statements, neither were technically under oath. The Democrats’ witness in particular made a number of problematic assertions, falling somewhere between dubious at best and outright false at worst.
Berke claimed that State Department staffer David Holmes had ‘heard it from the president himself’ when he testified that President Donald Trump was interested in Ukraine conducting investigations.”
“In fact, Holmes had not heard anything directly from the president. Rather, he claimed to have overheard part of a conversation on a mobile phone between U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and the president”
“Sondland was at an outdoor table at a restaurant at the time, and Holmes had been drinking wine with him and two other staffers.”
“Despite a habit of taking notes, and despite the fact that he later emailed the U.S. embassy in Sweden about a part of the conversation dealing with then-jailed U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky, Holmes never wrote down what he later claimed he heard the president telling Sondland. Berke suggested, however, that he heard the president first-hand.”
In other words, how can anyone believe anything this guy says?
Did Jerry Nadler perhaps just unintentionally do this man a favor by rescuing him from perjury charges by not swearing him in?
How could anyone on the House Judiciary Committee miss something so crucial to the inquiry? Especially its Chairman?
This kind of ineptness has run rampant throughout this charade, and Nadler’s gross incompetence is simply the icing on the cake.
Polls show Americans are souring on impeachment more than ever. Are Jerry Nadler and his party doing Donald Trump a big 2020 favor without even knowing it?
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he later emailed the U.S. embassy in Sweden about a part of the conversation dealing with then-jailed U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky, Holmes never wrote down what he later claimed he heard the president telling Sondland.
Wait a minute - Rocky A$AP was jailed in August. The supposed conversation that Holmes is referencing took place on September 9 - 30 days after Rocky had been released.
Hmmmmm.
The impeachment cult is running out of control.
Don't these progressives realize how bad this abuse of House practices looks? We are watching a shift in the polls as this farce limps to its end.
We should all remember how they abused their power when they held the gavels.
One must wonder what affect THIS "report" will have on the "race"?
It shows a couple of things. One is that Biden is not up to the task. He is senile and is only running to win a general election where moderate democrats will have a tolerable choice. Since defeating Trump is the one thing that binds all democrats, a senile Biden claiming he would only serve one term makes him all the more acceptable to the concerns of some democrats or independents.
Seems like everything witnesses said should be disregarded and stricken from the record.