One real fact witness, and only one, testified in the Senate. Republican fact witness Pat Cipollone. He was placed in meetings with Bolton and the President discussing the extortion scheme.
Cipollone was the only fact witness who was permitted to testify in the trial and he testified for hours. Democrats should be allowed at least one witness as a legal remedy and judicial relief. If no Democratic witness is permitted then the entire trial will be beyond a mockery of a travesty of a sham of justice. If no Democratic witness is permitted, then this will be another reason that the verdict is completely tainted.
Cipollone knowingly lied during the trial to cover up his own involvement. Democrats should move that his testimony be stricken from the record and ignored by jurors.
Everyone should stop saying there were no witnesses in this trial. Stop saying that this is the first impeachment in U.S. history without witnesses. There was one and only one fact witness. Cipollone. A Republican witness, a co-conspirator who lied and permanently tainted the jury.