Ultimate in hypocrisy

Democrats are all over the mass media these days demanding “fairness” for the impeachment trial in the Senate.

Fairness is subjective, but I wonder if it was fair for the Dems to use the powerful Foreign Intelligence

Surveillance Act for political purposes to spy on private citizens and a Presidential campaign?

For newly elected Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to say “We’re going to impeach the motherf**ker” well before the inauguration? For the Dems to start the Muller investigation with no evidence of a crime as required by the Special Counsel legislation? That the whole Muller team was partisan Democrats? That Democratic House Intelligence Committee members like Chairman Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell lied about having solid evidence of President

Trump’s guilt when there was none?

That Adam Schiff lied about the contents of the Ukraine phone call? That only unfavorable information was leaked about the President from secret inquiry hearings in the basement of the Capitol building? To prohibit Republicans from calling witnesses during this inquiry? To prohibit witnesses from answering Republicans questions? To call a person with third-hand knowledge of the Ukraine phone call a “whistle blower” and shield his identity when he wasn’t really a whistle blower?

To prevent the President from having legal counsel present during the inquiry?

Finally, our judicial system requires fairness for the accused, not the prosecutors. Dems have conveniently forgotten this, no surprise because they have already trashed the presumption of innocence, another bedrock legal principle, during the Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and now in the President Trump impeachment circus. Fairness, indeed, is in the eye of the beholder, and for the Dems to now demand fairness in the Senate when they had none in the House is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

Wilbur W. Wells

Tehachapi