You Know You Can't Count On Him-- And Do Not Doubt That Every Senator Does Know That

Adam Schiff gave a really historic speech Thursday night. And he spoke without notes. He spoke with logic, passion and a compelling sense of urgency and honesty. Over on the Putin/Trump-First right, anti-American traitors like Gym Jordan, Trish Regan and Tucker Carlson did their pathetic best to denigrate Schiff's powerful and very damaging words. On the other hand, this was how Lawrence O'Donnell and his MSNBC panel-- sorry for the McCaskill interrupts... just fast forward through her bullshit-- reported it:Just as Schiff was about to begin speaking, Arkansas far right closet case Tom Cotton started giggling and walked over to Ben Sasse (R-NE) and spoke to Sasse for the entire time Schiff spoke. Right-wing extremists Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) also ignored Schiff's speech, gossiping and giggling for the entire time he spoke. Keep in mind, a new Ipsos poll shows that 73% of Republican voters said senators should "act as impartial jurors" during the trial.Believe it or not, Cotton, Sasse, Cramer and Johnson were outliers in the chamber. Even though it was past their bedtimes, most of the senators-- including the Republicans-- were paying close attention. Rubio was actually busily scribbling notes! I wonder if he wrote to himself: "follow the president's own words, and read the transcript."Schiff went beyond the innocence or guilt to the removal part of the trial. "This is why he needs to be removed. Donald Trump chose Rudy Giuliani over his own intelligence agencies… when all of them were telling him this Ukraine 2016 stuff is cooky, crazy Russia propaganda, he chose not to believe them, he chose to believe Rudy Giuliani. That makes him dangerous to us, to our country." Nailed it-- and everyone in the room knew so.The Trump regime had a little reminder for the senators Trump actually thinks he owns. Remember, he has no understanding of the American experiment and absolutely believes he is the state and disloyalty to him personally is disloyalty to America.