By Roger C. Kostmayer

The US Constitution, the highest law in the land, requires the House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings.  It also requires the US Senate to hold a TRIAL and serve as jurors to determine if the defendant should be convicted and removed from office.

The question is “What’s a trial?”, and the answer is simple.  A trial is a formal adversarial legal process, involving a judge and jury, that uses evidence and witnesses to determine guilt or innocence.  Without these elements it is not a trial, as we witness in dictatorships where “show trials” are common. If the process doesn’t have witnesses, testimony, documents and evidence, what you have, as most TV watchers know well, is a sham, a farce, a pretense, a fake and a cover up.  On Friday, January 31, every Republican Senator, except two, voted to prevent relevant first hand witnesses from sharing the first person truth, under oath, about the alleged impeachable acts of the President. This also prevented the Senators and the American people to immediately hear first hand about the roles played by such senior individuals as: Pompeo, Pence, Mulvaney, Cipolino, Barr and Giuliani.

Inevitably, the truth will out.  Ambassador Bolton wrote a book (due out in weeks)  that describes in detail what the defendant President did, when he did or said it, and the role of the senior WH officials in the Ukraine affair and the cover up.  For the above reasons, history will forever have an asterisk on the Trump impeachment to indicate there was no legitimate acquittal because there was no legitimate trial. 

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