and truth matters.
On Thursday, January 23, 2020, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) offered closing remarks after day two of the House Managers' case for the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Drumpf before the United States Senate.
...Mr. Schiff is ordinarily serious, composed and in control. But as he moved toward his closing comments, he grew visibly emotional as he recalled the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the White House national security aide and Ukrainian immigrant who testified in impeachment hearings before Congress and helped Democrats build their case.
Colonel Vindman, who fled the former Soviet Union with his family when he was 3, testified that he felt deeply uncomfortable with a telephone call Mr. Trump had on July 25 with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, when Mr. Trump asked the Ukrainian leader to “do us a favor” and investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Mr. Schiff recalled how Colonel Vindman told lawmakers that unlike in the former Soviet Union, “right matters” in the United States.
“Well, let me tell you something,” Mr. Schiff went on, his forefinger jabbing the air for emphasis. “If right doesn’t matter, if right doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter how good the Constitution is. It doesn’t matter how brilliant the framers were. Doesn’t matter how good or bad our advocacy in this trial is.” If “right doesn’t matter,” he concluded, “we’re lost.” nyt
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I hate politics. I realize how debate between parties is necessary to figure out how to represent the citizens of this country, but it seems as if there is no debate anymore. Everyone picks a side and sticks to it, just like how Trump is assumed to eventually be acquitted because everyone in the senate will vote along party lines. I hate politics because they're so frustrating to me, it is frustrating having to figure out which news I should believe because there is so much bias, it's exhausting to discover the simple truth, especially online. Politics are so polarized as well that finding a happy middle ground seems trivial. There is no Happy-Middle-Ground Party actually paying attention to the impeachment trial, everyone is hearing what they want to hear. Does anyone else agree? I don't want recommendations of news sources, Im just curious if anyone else would rather just sit out of the political game entirely rather than try to pick a side?
ReplyDeleteHayden Goodridge - Section 6
ReplyDeleteI believe Rep. Adam Schiff's impassioned assertion that "Right matters" in the closing statements of his prosecution ties directly into the lessons we are learning as we read through Fantasyland. We currently have a presidential administration and complicit Senate that believe they can spout off intended lies with a blatant disregard for the truth, and the further proceedings of this impeachment procedure—especially if the senate decides not to remove Donald Trump—will echo as a period of immense political strife in the decades to come.
Just to share a link. Here is a super cut of Senator Lindsey Graham's unabashed flip-flopping on his opinions of Donald Trump. It's as laughable as it is terrifying to see how brazenly he walks back on his assertions. https://youtu.be/knMIXTTVKx4
I feel like this is very timely. As Americans, we need to draw a hard line in the sand and stand up for what is right and true. #6
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