George Conway responds to Lindsey Grahams claim that evidence against Trump is hearsay...........

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George Conway
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... under Rule 804(b)(3)‘ s exception to the hearsay rule for statements against penal or other interest;

* To the extent Trump was involved in a criminal conspiracy with... @RudyGiuliani
, Giuliani’s statements are also admissible against Trump and ...
George Conway
@gtconway3d
... are not hearsay under Rule 801(d)(2)(E);

* The memorandum of Trump’s call with Zelensky is admissible under as many as four separate exceptions to the hearsay rule—namely, Rules 803(1) (present sense impression), 803(5) (recorded recollection), 803(6) (record of a ...
12:18 PM · Sep 28, 2019 from Princeton Junction, NJ·Twitter for iPad






George Conway @gtconway3d
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... regularly conducted activity), and 803(8) (record of a public office).

* In any event, you can be indicted in this country on the basis of hearsay. It happens all the time. And an impeachment is the consitutional equivalent of an indictment. So it follows that the ...
George Conway
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... House can consider hearsay in deciding whether to begin an impeachment inquiry, just as prosecutors can consider hearsay in deciding whether to convene a grand jury.
George Conway
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So your argument, Senator, is pure garbage, even assuming that the rules of evidence apply in the impeachment process.
George Conway
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But that assumption is trash, too. The hearsay rule needn’t apply even in a Senate trial:
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SavageHat
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Dear Senator Graham:
Senate rules call for the use of hearsay in impeachment, in that committees hear the testimony and report back to the full Senate. It even went to the Supreme Court!

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/506/224/
George Conway
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In the President Clinton’s trial in 1998, testimony wasn’t even taken before a committee, in contrast to the Walter Nixon trial that @popehat
mentions; it was taken in lawyers’ offices (as Senator Graham should recall, since he was a House manager in that trial).

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[Pachamama]

1. I am waiting for the news of his filing of dissolution of marriage to Kellyanne....

That will be a day that we all know that George Conway is a free soul from the evil that binds him....and free to speak even more freely...

[CanonRay]

2. "Hearsay" is the Republican talking point of the day

[ET Awful]

3. Well. . . Trump didn't consider hearsay or circumstantial evidence to be a problem when he called

for the execution of the Central Park Five now did he?

[rickyhall]

4. So Graham is Trump dog?

What a bitch...