Erick Erickson still tries to promote moral equivalency:
All your bile and rage at them should be, in part, directed at the Democrats who decided to engage in emotional theater instead of having a real trial.
Are they subpoenaing Mike Pence as a witness? Nope.
The bison helmeted jackass? Nope.
The police officers? Nope.
They’re not having a trial and a year ago Chuck Schumer said not calling witnesses made it a sham.
This is Chuck Schumer’s sham.
Mitt Romney nearing the insurrectionists, saved by Officer Goodman.
Funny, but I saw witness testimony yesterday.
It showed insurrectionists breaking down fences.
It showed Vice President Pence making for shelter scant moments before the insurrectionists almost caught him.
It showed Senator Romney (R-UT) almost blundering into a group of insurrectionists, before Officer Goodman found and redirected him just moments before disaster would have struck.
Yes, security cameras are witnesses. Erickson may call out legal technicalities and insist a witness be human, or at least biological, but that is a distinction with meaning that he won’t like.
Why? Because the cameras are objective; humans are subjective and not necessarily honest, even under oath. If they were, what need would there be for cross-examination and penalties for perjury?
Indeed, are there penalties for perjury if, say, Senator Hawley was called to testify?
Cameras do have their problems, from deepfake tampering to low-fidelity recordings, as we often see on the local news. But, absent tampering, they do not skew their opinions: you see what they see.
So when Erickson attempts to turn purple with outrage: This is Chuck Schumer’s sham, I just have to laugh. Yes, the first impeachment lacked anything resembling witnesses, as even the transcript was an incomplete transcript, which left observers wanting to know what was omitted: perhaps a threat of a bombing run by US forces if the Ukrainian President didn’t deliver what Trump wanted? I merely speculate to show just what was obscured by that transcript.
The cameras, limited as they are, do not obscure.
Erickson is positively frantic to paint the Democrats as being morally equivalent to the Republicans, but, so far, it just doesn’t wash. The Senate is awash in the best of witness statements, and the Republicans’ failure to act on this mute, yet so eloquent, testimony will condemn them in the eyes of future Americans for their lack of devotion to the truth.
