Hypocrisy

    Hypocrisy is one of the things I detest most in politicians. This impeachment trial has broadcast our government's hypocrisy throughout the world. The hypocrisy in this process is multi layered, and exhibits what is worst in government.
       The overriding hypocrisy of this process is that in each part of the process, the process of impeachment was abused by each of the parties involved. The house abused the process to pass the impeach articles, and the senate, abused the normal process of the trial to shut out future witnesses in this process. Both parties try to justify their actions, and I will admit I agree with many of the justifications. The truth of the matter was the democrats were going to impeach Trump regardless of facts. If the democrats were not set on impeach, why rig the process. Let republicans in the house call witnesses, and cross examine witnesses without Schiff controlling the cross examination.  For the intelligence committee  to act as special prosecutor was just ignorant. The hypocrisy of Schiff to run the investigation when he knew he had contact with and ties to the "whistleblower" was just stupid and arrogant. Out of all the actors in this drama, Schiff is the scariest, because he has no conscience and will lie and twist facts and words from one sentence to the next. He seems almost arrogant enough to believe that no one sees his hypocrisy and lies.
       The hypocrisy of the senate lies in their handling of the trial. If they truly believed Trump innocent and the trial in the house rigged, they should have dismissed it as soon as they got it. Just stated, this is a mistrial, because the investigation and vote which brought about the trial was rigged.
       I appreciated the President's team of lawyers, because they actually stood behind their actions, in regard to justifying their acts. Whether their reasoning was a pile of shit or not, they stood by their arguments. That was probably the most honest thing in the trial.
          Schiff, and the house managers on the other hand, would justify their actions by saying, we did this, because we knew the President was corrupt, and the AG and DOJ was corrupt . . .they didn't prove the President, AG, DOJ, and anyone on the phone call, were corrupt, they said the corruption was proven by the actions of the President, AG etc . . ., if anyone disagreed with their view of the case.
         Besides the hypocrisy of this case, the other thing that bothered me about this was, just how dumb many of the house managers seemed, and how dumb many of the senators seemed. I felt like 4th and 5th graders could have asked better questions about this case.
         In an ironic twist, I think the lack of hypocrisy, is one of the things that people who support him, like in President Trump. You usually don't have to read between the lines to hear what he is really thinking. And contrary to the media, I think the nation enjoys knowing what the President truly thinks, even if it is a bit crude to some people's ears/.
        But maybe I am just a hypocrite.