Are you a lawyer? Cause I’m not.
Every freaking rep from both sides got to go up and give their speech which was a colossal waste of time in itself so what’s one more witness? Bolton claimed to have first hand knowledge so why not hear him out? Just as the officer in my reference would obviously have firsthand knowledge of the crime I committed.
But yea there’s a lot about courtroom procedures I don’t know. In high school I was too busy having to learn useless shit like fractions and Shakespeare rather than how to do my own taxes, how to close sales on real estate and something so much more crucial to the American culture (its legal proceedings).
But I guess if they taught basic law in high school, then prosecutor’s conviction rates would go down and people wouldn’t need to hire attorneys for some of the more simple cases.
I'm going to prefect my post with this. I was not trying to imply you are stupid nor that I am some intellectual it's just that people tend to repeat what they are told by an authority and in this case the authority is lying. They are expecting the average man, who doesn't understand how the legal system works, to just trust them. I'm Not a lawyer, just taken enough business law classes and helped out with enough contracts to know how basic litigation goes. As to bolton, his first hand knowledge is hearsay he had no recordings, no evidence, just what he claims to have witnessed. Combine this with the "tell all" book and you realize Bolton would just geting on stage to advertise his new fantasy novel.
As for your statement "Every freaking rep from both sides got to go up and give their speech which was a colossal waste of time in itself so what’s one more witness?" There's a few things wrong with it.
First if bolton was important enough the dems would have included him initially they didn't they, left him out and only wanted him on when the other people they picked didn't get the wanted results.
Second what's one more whitness? don't act like it would have just been one they wanted to bring in three at the least and it's fucking easy to get someone who hasn't been within a mile of trump in their life to say they personally experienced what he did.The argument what's one more not only falls into the sunken cost fallacy but never runs out. There would always be one last witness.
Third these things cost money to run so extending it isn't a good way to spend taxpayers money.
Finally if Dr., I am consistently proven wrong and can't even get the year the assault happened right, ford should have proven anything it's that the democrats will bring out any witness on no matter how crazy or nonsensical their stories are. Combine that with the medias ability to turn any crazy statement into a "fact backed up by a reliable source" and it kind of makes sense for the republicans to stop the democrats from using the impeachment trial to spread more conspiracy theories.
This was a shit show from start to finish but the media acted like it wasn't the republicans understood how long the dems would draw it out and how the media would paint the event so they decided not to extend it. THEY DID NOT BLOCK ANY WITNESSES. They decided not to use their time to extend the democrats rantings and accusations. It's fake news that lives because it sounds horrible and is on a subject very few people understand.
As for the metaphor it's an imperfect one because the officer would have a dash cam and records of what you did to back up his statement, bolton didn't have either and would have just claimed he saw something. Honestly the better metaphor would be somebody suing you for hitting their car and demanding you to bring up a rando during your court time to incriminate yourself. Also the rando was no where near you when the incident happened, they actively hates you, is trying to sell a book where they tell about all the times you've broken the law even times where it is impossible for you to have done claimed action, their time was spent brining up people who coudln't prove anything and were no where near the scene of the incident, and to top it off you scratched their bumper and their claiming you totaled it.
