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Gregg Jarrett: Trump acquittal in impeachment trial is a humiliating defeat for partisan Democrats
Fox News ^ | February 5, 2020 | Gregg Jarrett

Posted on 02/05/2020 6:24:54 PM PST by jazusamo

The Democratic scheme to evict President Trump from office, which collapsed Wednesday when a majority of the Senate voted to acquit him of impeachment charges, was an extravagant waste of time. Sadly, amid today’s feverish electoral polemics, rage has replaced reason.

Impeachment was always a fatuous and frivolous exercise initiated by House Democrats. Their constitutionally cited grounds were incurably weak and driven by a visceral hostility toward Trump.

Democrats who supported Trump’s impeachment and conviction were motivated by an irrational but overwhelming desire to avenge their loss of the presidency in the 2016 election, obscuring their reason and judgment. The politics of hate now predominates in Washington. Vilifying Trump is a blood sport.

Not a single House Republican voted to impeach the president. Only one Senate Republican – Mitt Romney of Utah, who was a Trump antagonist during the impeachment proceedings – voted to convict the president on Article 1 (abuse of power), but acquit Trump on Article 2 (obstruction of Congress).

Romney has a complicated and contentious history with Trump. The senator’s vote was no surprise. Last October, before he had even seen much of the evidence, Romney said the president’s actions were “wrong and appalling.” Trump fired back by denouncing the senator and calling for Romney’s removal. The feud has not abated and will surely persist.

Except for Romney, impeachment turned out to be exactly what it seemed – a partisan smear driven by political animus and personal disgust of everything Trump. Americans recognized it for what it was. On the eve of Trump’s acquittal, a Gallup poll showed that he had earned the highest approval rating of his presidency.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acquittal; adamschiff; adumbschittsmonkey; corruption; impeachment; nancypelosi; partisanship; pelosi; presidenttrump; schiff; trump; ushouse
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Long, but good summary of the impeachment and acquittal focusing on Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff's corrupt handling of the fiasco in the House.
1 posted on 02/05/2020 6:24:54 PM PST by jazusamo
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0-DC7-A671-1131-477-A-80-B5-FB33-F1-C7-A567

They’re coming back for more, and it’s the same peeps.


2 posted on 02/05/2020 6:26:30 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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The absolute best part of this drama for me is that now Pelosi herself has committed a crime on Television punishable up to 3 years on prison.

Chair has ruled she tore up an official House Document.

No one is above the law, eh Pelosi?????????!!!!!!??????


3 posted on 02/05/2020 6:29:27 PM PST by RummyChick
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She needs to held for it lock her up


4 posted on 02/05/2020 6:36:00 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: jazusamo

“Partisan Democrat” is a redundancy, we know now there is no such thing as a non-partisan Democrat.


5 posted on 02/05/2020 6:36:32 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: jazusamo

Those of us who do internet research must focus on one Cofer Black. After being head of counterterrorism at CIA, he was a foreign policy advisor to Romney on his 2012 presidential campaign while he served on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, along with one Hunter Biden. I found it a bit interesting that Romney today, in addition to his public backstabbing, shrieked how Hunter Biden was in the clear and had done nothing wrong. Why would Romney say that without access to evidence? Did someone tell him to, or threaten him, or was Romney worried about his own connections to Ukraine? This low character is capable of anything.


6 posted on 02/05/2020 6:37:40 PM PST by laconic
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"Except for Romney, impeachment turned out to be exactly what it seemed – a partisan smear driven by political animus and personal disgust of everything Trump. Americans recognized it for what it was. "

Sounds like Romney has been outed as a partisan smear artist.

7 posted on 02/05/2020 6:37:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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Nancy Pelosi defends ripping up Trump’s speech, saying it was just a “clump of cells”.

-Babylon Bee


8 posted on 02/05/2020 6:38:04 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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Gregg Jarrett deserves a lot of credit for exposing the sham impeachment scheme.


9 posted on 02/05/2020 6:38:08 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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They should patch it back together and put it on display, like the Liberty Bell.


10 posted on 02/05/2020 6:39:12 PM PST by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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Tribe is claiming this was Pelosi’s personal copy..furthermore she is protected by First Amendment and Speech and Debate clause.

BUt I think this was before Chair ruled it an official doc


11 posted on 02/05/2020 6:43:19 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: jazusamo

Are you sure that Shif and the Nad can be humiliated?


12 posted on 02/05/2020 6:46:56 PM PST by lurk
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Democrats are incapable of feeling humiliated.


13 posted on 02/05/2020 6:48:41 PM PST by lodi90
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Wonder if the writer is any relation to the jazz pianist Keith Jarrett (?)


14 posted on 02/05/2020 6:49:33 PM PST by 4Runner
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Sending some razor blades to my dem reps tomorrow.


15 posted on 02/05/2020 6:49:54 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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Chair has ruled she tore up an official House Document.

Still waiting for someone to say who the "chair" is.

16 posted on 02/05/2020 6:50:07 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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I’d love to see her nailed for that, I doubt she will but hope I’m wrong.


17 posted on 02/05/2020 6:50:40 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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I can think of a few better ways to say what he is. :)


18 posted on 02/05/2020 6:53:45 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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I’m thoroughly sick of Rmoney.

Rmoney can go suck an egg.


19 posted on 02/05/2020 6:54:23 PM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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https://twitter.com/RepMikeJohnson/status/1225171680575795200


20 posted on 02/05/2020 6:54:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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