{"id":1223,"date":"2020-02-03T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:21:04","slug":"dems-who-ran-sham-impeachment-hearings-shocked-as-republicans-run-sham-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dems Who Ran Sham Impeachment Hearings Shocked As Republicans Run Sham Impeachment Trial&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/dems-who-ran-sham-impeachment-hearings-shocked-as-republicans-run-sham-impeachment-trial\">Democratic leaders in the House called on their Republican colleagues in the Senate to run a fair and thorough impeachment trial instead of a farce as they did when they held impeachment hearings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4b9bc40200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pelosi sham impeachment\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4b9bc40200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4b9bc40200c-250wi\" style=\"width: 240px;\" title=\"Pelosi sham impeachment\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&quot;We demand Republicans take this seriously and not make this into a circus as we did,&quot; Pelosi said sternly. &quot;I would hope the Senate would carry out their solemn duty and not make this a big charade, you know, as we did in the House.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">********************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">She then handed out big, commemorative foam fingers reading &quot;IMPEACH 45.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Other Democrats echoed Pelosi&#39;s sentiments, with Adam Schiff saying, &quot;Any impeachment trial that does not immediately railroad the president out of office despite the lack of any impeachable crimes is clearly a sham.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&quot;How did I do?&quot; he asked, concerned his performance wasn&#39;t up to snuff. &quot;Can we do another take? I didn&#39;t really feel it that time. Let&#39;s try it again and I&#39;ll really sell it this time.&quot; He tried another take, but in a minor wardrobe malfunction, his eye popped out of its socket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ocasio-Cortez could not be reached for comment as she had somehow tied herself up with her own shoelaces (because she is dumb).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders in the House called on their Republican colleagues in the Senate to run a fair and thorough impeachment trial instead of a farce as they did when they held impeachment hearings. &quot;We demand Republicans take this seriously and not make this into a circus as we did,&quot; Pelosi said sternly. &quot;I would hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}