The trial of the century?

According to the “failing New York Times” as President Trump calls them, the Senate gets down to business this week. “Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, released draft rules on Monday. They would limit each side’s arguments to 24 hours over two days and permit the Senate to decline to hear new evidence. McConnell has said the rules are based on those used during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999, but the Times says there are meaningful differences such as each team getting 24 hours to present their cases, from 1 P.M. to 1 A.M. over a two day period for each and requiring a Senate vote to admit records generated by the House Impeachment inquiry. Why are these things different? Well, because the House effort was illegitimate and their records should require a vote, that is why. Media outlets such as the Times like to point out the President and his legal team refused to participate in the House Judiciary hearing to mount a defense but they almost always conveniently leave out the fact that the President was denied due process and the opportunity to confront the witnesses that produced the impeachment report in Adam Schiff’s sham Intelligence Committee hearings. That is where the defense needed to occur, and this entire process is not the trial of the century but nothing more than a Kangaroo court. The Senate should treat this sham for what it is, the third attempt to overturn the 2016 election, and dismiss it out right.