Also the Senate under the constitution could dismiss this impeachment report with out a hearing in the senate if they think it is based on little substance and is not a high crime threat. And the Senate wants to do this, because they now have to set up a multimillion dollar trial, preparing evidence, researching, calling witnesses. It’s a big job taking up weeks maybe months of the senates time preparing it all. While you have all these people involved in this process, the job of governing is slowed and disrupted.

The senate realises this impeachment is based on a flimsy concept lacking real evidence, so why should they go through a trial process they could just vote to dismiss.
That is common sense.

Unfortunately the a Democrats backed up by their media allies have turned this into more serious than it is and so now Trump is for holding a trial to clear his name even though the senate could just vote to end the whole thing now and rightly so.

Considering in 2016 during the election run up the FBI was wire tapping Trumps staff and colleagues under the guise of investigating Russian Interference, when it was found Russia had put some fake Facebook post up favouring Trump.

They were doing what they are accusing him of doing, spying on his election campaign.
By the way, they never found any phone link between Trump and Russia.

Alan B,
The president of the country has a right to ask the new leader of a country Ukraine, about corruption which usually always involves money,
The corruption in Ukraine was so bad that the people elected the new Ukrainian President to clean it up. Guess who had been given control of Ukraine under the Obama administration, under which all this Ukrainian corruption prospered, Joe Biden.

President Trump in his phone call to the new Ukrainian President congratulated him on his win, and asked how the corruption clean-up was going. He was checking things out before he handed so much American money and weapons over to Ukraine.
If Joe Biden was part of the corruption in Ukraine that was his fault and the Democrats fault, it wasn’t the President of America’s fault that corruption had thrived under Joe Biden’s control in Ukraine. You can’t blame President Trump for Joe Biden’s guilt.

And talking about finding dirt on opponents the FBI were doing wire tapping in the lead up to the 2016. Tapping Trumps staff and connections to find any connection to Russia, which they never found, but blamed an innocent man for being Trumps connection to Russia in The fake Steele Dossier,paid for by Hilary Clinton to the Fisa Court.
That man was Carter Page whom the FBI had tapped in two calls to Russia, but never any connection to Trump.

The FBI contacted the CIA to ask if they had any information on Carter Page. The CIA said, “ he works for us, he is one of the good guys working for America.”
The FBI again asked them, and they received the same answer..
Now Desperate to find a connection between Trump and Russia, they put Carter Pages name on the FISA application. Carter said they ruined his life and reputation in the fake media. He’s thinking of suing them.

17 irregularities in that Fake Steele Dossier, to the Fisa court. 17 errors? by the top intelligence? Agency in the world. It was fraud and a few people should be up on criminal charges over that.

The article is about the Steele Dossier which has precisely nothing, nowt, nil to do with the current 'impeachment' farce.

As usual, Alan B, talking with feigned great authority about things of which he is utterly clueless, has high-jacked a discussion.

So back to the so-called dossier. It was used by the DNC as a weapon against the Trump campaign, was then passed to the media to be used as a weapon against the Trump campaign and then used by the FBI to fool the FISA court to allow the deep state to spy on the Trump campaign and the Trump administration. All the while, not a single substantive fact in the dossier was verified.

And through the two years where the deep state/DNC/media tried to use it to derail the Trump presidency, Trump soldiered on, making America great again.

The Mueller investigation did cursory checks on the dossier but backed-off when it was clear it was bunkum, while still pretending it was of value.

But the IG report burst the bubble which is why the deep state/DNC/media have pivoted to the Ukraine rubbish.

Yet the fun isn't over. There is still another report to drop following the investigation led by Durham which will be an even more thorough revelation of how corrupt the dossier and those who used it for political purposes really were.

The entire episode is a stain on the entire US establishment. That Trump was as successful as he's been in the face of this villainy is remarkable.

Early last century an entirely false document called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion which claimed to show Jewish plans to conquer the world was widely accepted as true. Historians look back and wonder how otherwise intelligent beings could fall for these obvious lies.

Similarly people will look back at the dossier and wonder how it was that so many thought it true. But the reason is simple. They believed it because they WANTED it to be true

Mhaze
I totally agree with all you say.. I thought Alan was off topic but I was triggered to dispute what he said, Sorry. I did come back to the Dozzier in the second half of my last post.

It’s long past time these FBI people and others who committed knowing fraud to hold an illegal investigation were charged.

They have apparently issued a “we are very sorry” statement.

Very sorry doesn’t absolve them from committing fraud.

one rule and standard for conservatives and a complete lack of standards for liberals. Has been for a long time.

YeeeeUPP! Cherful and runner have got it spot on