Posted on 01/18/2021 7:03:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump has been officially impeached for a second time, with the latest attempt striking me as no more legitimate than the last. As I’ve shared in other articles, factually, I don’t believe Trump ever incited violence on January 6th when a group of QAnon morons rushed the Capitol Building. He pointedly said to protest “peacefully” in his speech given prior to the action. While his previous comments on the election being stolen may have gotten people worked up, that’s hardly a viable standard for incitement — otherwise, many more politicians would be in jail right now.
Looking at all the aspects of this, I simply don’t believe there’s some deeply principled, justified reason to be impeaching Trump after he’s left office. Right now, the Senate trial isn’t even scheduled, and the President is gone on Wednesday.
Now, a Democrat House Impeachment manager is giving the game away. This has always really been about stopping Trump in 2024.
A House impeachment manager acknowledged on Sunday that one reason for charging President Donald Trump with incitement of insurrection was to prevent the outgoing commander in chief from trying to become president againhttps://t.co/H3ttnr6Nje
— POLITICO (@politico) January 18, 2021
A House impeachment manager acknowledged on Sunday that one reason for charging President Donald Trump with incitement of insurrection was to prevent the outgoing commander in chief from trying to become president again.
“One of the other purposes of impeachment in this case is to make sure that President Trump is not able to run for federal office again, that he’s not able to seek the presidency,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
There’s nothing quite as democratic as abusing the constitutional power of impeachment, moving forward on mere partisan supposition, in order to stop voters from having the opportunity to vote for who they want. Would I prefer an 80 year old Trump as the nominee in 2024 over some other options? No, I wouldn’t, but you’d better believe I think voters have the right to make that decision individually.
Democrats are terrified that carrying a failing Biden administration into 2024, with an awful standard-bearer like Kamala Harris at the forefront, is a recipe for a Trump resurgence. Of course, if they were smart, they’d let this impeachment nonsense go. Perhaps Trump gets bored and decides he’d rather play golf for the rest of his days? But if you poke the bear, don’t be surprised when he bites. This is only going to fire up Trump and his supporters more to make another go at it.
Regardless, impeachment shouldn’t be used this way. It was never meant to be a tool used under specious circumstances to stop a political opponent from being able to run for office again. No crime was committed here by Trump, nor is there any evidence of actual incitement on Trump’s part. Voters should get to make their own decision on the matter, not some partisans in Washington hoping to take advantage of short-term hysteria.
After you lot there will be nothing left to be President of
And McConnell will make sure this happens.
They are foolish because there’s always Don Jr. :-)
I think you are right, he will try. Dershowitz will have a field day with this.
And Mitch “The Bitch” McConnell is right there supporting them.
This is so dumb.
Donald Trump Jr. could run.
This Congress is like a Babylon Bee satire of itself.
With DJT as the White House Chief of Staff? Oh, how my mouth waters. :D
Don Jr. is not a natural born citizen. Only Tiffany and Barron were born here. They are going to follow the constitution.
Whatever—then Barron.
This is total insanity...
Wouldn't that be cool! :-)
Everybody is making the assumption that fair elections will return. Is not that an unsubstantiated assumption? People can not get a grasp of reality.
There are multiple motives behind Sham-peachment II, including the spite of Pelosi-witch, but this occurred to me today:
The Democrats want to wear the public out on impeachment, and make it look like any action against Biden is just payback. Biden is imminently impeachable for his criminal sale of office and self-enrichment as Veep. And that’s just the most obvious and easiest set of violations to prove. The moment anything is started against Biden, the
media chorus will screech that “Impeachment, impeachment, we’re had enough divisive talk about impeachment. You resentful white supremacists get over it and sing kumbayyah like you were told.”
Did the DemonKKKrats consult the Constitution? Any conviction process in the Senate, after Trump leaves office, should be unconstitutional. A Republican House and Senate in the 2022 midterms would rule that such a process is no longer possible. They may even retroactively take away Trump’s invalid impeachment, if the Supreme Court did not rule his impeachment unconstitutional first.
Any thing short of millions of Americans walking around with indigo fingers as an indelible sign that only their vote was cast and counted, fair elections are dead in the water.
“QAnon morons” as you say with preplanned groups of Antifa & BLM.
They did major Hatem to President Trump and Patriots.
A BIDEN WIN WILL BE AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19
Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.
Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.
Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide
Americans better WISE UP/
Key swamp demons were making fortunes when they allowed US companies in a number of industries including pharma, computer; and electrical as well metal fabrication components even bicycles relocate their factories in China . To the point where China was our sole supplier. The money the CCP has now comes from US .If we play our Chinese checkers right we can really turn things around for the better not only here but in China as well.Check out this recent posting in Free Republic.com which the MSM and social venues will spike; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3890312/posts. will be stopped by Biden and hailed by Walmart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3920123/posts
“Don Jr. is not a natural born citizen.”
The lunacy, it never dies. It’s repeated daily by a few.
The next two to four years are going to be brutal on incumbents if this is allowed to stand. If its not, slightly less brutal.
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