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Now that she’s delivered impeachment articles to the U.S. Senate, 79-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demands that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reopen the House impeachment inquiry by allowing new witnesses and documents to come into the Senate trial. McConnell called the House impeachment inquiry “slpapdash,” referring to the hasty manner in which House Democrats interviewed witnesses, reviewed documents and fashioned two articles of impeachment, one on abuse of power and the other on obstruction of Congress. Neither of two articles pass the Constitutional test of high-crimes-and-misdemeanors. Pelosi, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) have said publicly that they have an ironclad impeachment case against 73-year-old President Donald Trump.

Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have been pressuring McConnell to reopen the impeachment inquiry, allowing new witnesses and documents to be introduced in the impeachment trial, scheduled to begin next Tuesday, Jan. 21. Pelosi and Schumer can’t accept that regardless of any new witnesses or documents supporting their case, Republicans do not believe that Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, asking him, in the worst case scenario, for dirt on the Bidens in exchange for $391 million in military aid, it’s impeachable. Trump denies that he withheld funds for political reasons, only concerned about Ukrainian corruption. Democrats tout a new bombshell witness named Lev Parnas who worked closely with Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani. Parnas’ emails said Trump was interested in investigating Joe and Hunter Biden.

Well guess what, 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden and his 50-year-old son Hunter were in the middle of corruption at Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. Pamas actually said Trump wasn’t concerned about “corruption,” he was interested in Joe and Hunter Biden. Guess what? They were at the heart of any corruption inquiry in Ukraine. Yet if you listen to the media’s read on Pamas, he says Trump wasn’t interested in corruption, only the Bidens. So, whatever witnesses House and Senate Democrats want to put on the stand, McConnell correctly says they’ve finished their impeachment inquiry, by their own doing. No one stopped Pelosi, Schiff or Nadler from taking the time to subpoena new witnesses or get new documents. “The House’s hour is over,” McConnell said. “The Senate’s time is at hand,” reminding Pelosi that the Senate has other priorities.

House managers led by Schiff swore an oath to abide by the Constitution in prosecuting their impeachment case against Trump. Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler have accused Senate Republicans of breaching impartiality, when it was House Democrats who built a partisan, one-sided impeachment case against Trump. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has his hand full dealing with rabid partisanship on both sides of the aisle. Democrats are still steaming over McConnell’s decision to not consider former President Barack Obama’s last Supreme Court pick, D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland. Trump eventually got conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch approved April 19, 2017, fueling more ire in Democrats. Democrats, led by ranking Judiciary Committee member Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), opposed the Oct. 6, 2018 approval of Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Going into next Tuesday’s impeachment trial, Democrats and their friends in the media are dropping one bombshell after another to pressure McConnell into admitting new witnesses and documents. So far, McConnell hasn’t budged, telling Pelosi that he will not allow the Senate to be used to continue Democrats “shoddy” impeachment case. Whether it’s hearing from former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Trump’s Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney or disgruntled fired Ukraine Amb.Marie Yovanovitch , there’s nothing new, other than more statements speculating about Trump’s intentions in asking Zelensky for information on the Bidens. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee do not believe, in the worst-case scenario, Trump committed high-crime-and-misdemeanors as defined by the U.S. Constitution. House Democrats made up abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

More bombshells will no doubt drop between now and when the impeachment trial begins Tuesday, Jan. 21. But whatever happens in the press, McConnell has no plans to waiver on his belief that Democrats finished their impeachment inquiry, including all witnesses, before fashioning two articles of impeachment Dec. 13, finally turning them over to the Senate Jan. 14. “Previous impeachment came after months, if not years, of investigations and hearings,” McConnell said. “The House cut short their own inquiry, declined to pursue their own subpoenas and denied the president due process. But now they [Democrats] want the Senate to redo their homework and rerun the investigation,” McConnell said. Judging by McConnell’s statement, he’s not going to allow new witnesses and documents to come into the Senate trial, letting Democrats live-and-die by their impeachment case.