Alleging that there are "corroborating witnesses" when there are, without any question, no corroborating witnesses?
I agree with your assessment that the democrats got played... again. I also believe that taking it further, pledging impeachment if they take the house will possibly DESTROY the 75% chance of taking the house. They are gonna fuck it up and piss me off again. JUST STOP IT!
I find the phrase "corroborating witnesses" purposefully misleading. There is DEFINITLY a question as to whether or not there are any corroborating witnesses.
One definition: "Corroborating witness is a witness whose testimony supports or confirms testimony that is already given."
Under this definition,it is absolutely true that statements given by others after the fact(friends, spouses, therapists) could be "corroborating witnesses". If you never ask these people to testify, then they are not witnesses then, are they? That is a pretty shitty way to keep your claim true. I do not know, were those statements entered as evidence and accepted? If so, then they are indeed "corroborating witnesses", unless you believe either they made it all up, or it is not clear enough that the federal judge Ford was talking about was not this federal judge, but some other federal judge that grew up near her high school home as around the same time 35 years or so ago.
Are you meaning to say there were no witnesses to the event that can corroborate Dr. Ford's account, or are you using some other definition of what a corroborating witness is?
ETA:
You wrote this after I wrote my response:
And when I say "corroborating witnesses," I'm referring to witnesses contemporaneous with the event. That's the standard definition. What's being referenced above is perhaps character witnesses.
Who say's this is the "standard definition". It sounds like a completely different thing to me. There can be corroborating wittnesses, AND contemporaneous witnesses(and both.... which should be the best witnesses of all).
"perhaps a character witness": You have GOT to be joking, right. Am I on candid camera?
Thank you for the information regarding federal vs. state employee's. I am sure all of that is VERY important in an investigation (at least until you lie in a federal conformation hearing, and apparently are not of the same party as those running the hearing)