# The Trump Impeachment Inquiry

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771 "2019-09-24T20:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4415 "2019-11-14T07:18:17Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> … Well your post is my cite, so argue with it not me. Hal’s goat, I would suspect, did not tiptoe into your room and write a Hail Mary pass to the 6th Amendment, while you were not looking.
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> No one else mentioned it. Here is a link to the entire page and the entire previous page:
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> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882607&page=87](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882607&page=87)  
> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882607&page=86](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882607&page=86)
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> If you search for “6th”, I do believe that you will find that Hal’s goat or you were the first entity to broach the subject.

Yes, I did “broach the subject” (and this seems to be the key detail that several of you are ignoring / missing, no matter how many times I repeat it) **in response to JohnT’s “traffic court” post**. I did not claim that President Trump has a 6th Amendment right to confront Ciaramella.

Read [what I wrote](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21971293&postcount=4313) again. The quoting of JohnT’s post at the outset was to indicate to him and the rest of you that that post was in reply to the quoted post. The use of the phrase “criminal justice system” was intended to denote the distinction between that and the political process that is impeachment. It’s clear as day that I was talking about the 6th Amendment only in relation to JohnT’s (badly mis-informed) traffic court analogy.

ETA: BTW, a sincere thanks for the acknowledgement in the first half of your post. I didn’t requote it here because my response is to the latter portion, but I did see and greatly appreciated it.

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