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Foolish Impeachment Strengthens Trump
Townhall.com ^ | January 27, 2021 | John and Andy Schlafly

Posted on 01/27/2021 6:48:43 AM PST by Kaslin

A dumber stunt by the Democrats than proceeding with impeachment is difficult to imagine. This will remind Americans that Trump remains the most powerful figure in America, while the ghost-like Joe Biden occupies the White House as a mere puppet for Leftists who direct him.

This will boost Trump’s standing within the Republican Party and among the general public. At least 45 Senate Republicans support Trump, as reflected by those who voted on January 26 to dismiss the impeachment entirely, and that is 11 votes more than he needs.

Trump’s inevitable victory at the end of this foolish impeachment will return him triumphantly to the center of the political world. Meanwhile, lame duck Joe Biden is diminished by this process, because the Senate Democrats would not be going after Trump unless they felt he still holds immense power.

There is no precedent for the Senate to attempt to remove a president after he leaves office, or attempt to prevent him from running for president again. The Chief Justice will not preside over this farce, thereby depriving the proceeding of the extra measure of dignity that ostensibly accrues to the impeachment of a sitting president.

Instead, the presiding officer will apparently be the partisan Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who is on record as having voted in favor of the prior failed attempt to remove Trump by impeachment. This would be as biased as if Hunter Biden himself made an official decision as to whether Hunter Biden broke any laws.

Some Democrats think they could vote to disqualify Trump from holding office again, but that notion is absurd. As a private citizen who meets the qualifications set by the Constitution, Trump remains free to run for president, be elected and serve a second term.

With so many legal and constitutional defects, the mystery is why Democrats would pursue the folly of impeachment at this late date. The inevitable result would be to unify and energize the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump – some say it was far more – and it is baffling that Democrats would want to antagonize that many voters.

Prosecuting the articles of impeachment will expose anti-Trump Republicans to scrutiny, which will be helpful to the Republican Party as it cleans house of the traitors from within. The 10 House Republicans who inexplicably joined the Democrats to vote for the article of impeachment on January 13 should be censured by their local county and state Republican organizations, as Liz Cheney already has been.

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) parachuted into Trump country to claim a House seat on the strength of her father’s role in the now-discredited Bush administration. She should soon be removed from her position as third-ranking Republican, and back in Wyoming she should be defeated by a conservative opponent in her own upcoming primary next year.

The Oregon Republican Party, through its statewide executive committee, adopted a resolution expressing its “condemnation of the profound betrayal by the ten House Republicans who supported impeaching President Trump without any investigation, hearing, shred of due process, and in contradiction to the known and emerging facts.”

“Of equally grave concern,” Oregon Republicans continued, “is how Democrats and their enablers are trying to falsely assign blame to the peaceful protesters present that day, and to the tens of millions of Trump supporters. Any attempt to cancel or target anyone with deep concerns about the conduct of the 2020 election should be condemned and opposed.

Trump will undoubtedly be campaigning for those congressmen and senators who stood with him, and against the political traitors who turned against him. This guarantees that Trump will remain the dominant force within the Republican Party.

Essentially, House Democrats impeached Trump for expressing the political opinion that “we won this election” — an opinion shared by a large majority of the 74 million Americans who voted for him. By treating such an opinion as if it were “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the Democrats have severely undermined the very democracy that they sanctimoniously claim to defend.

It’s no accident that Nancy Pelosi, as her first order of business in the new Congress, is moving a bill to require all states to remain vulnerable to future election fraud. Among its many bad provisions, H.R. 1 would prohibit states from requiring voter ID, requiring signature authentication for mail-in ballots, or restricting the process of ballot harvesting and the use of unattended drop boxes.

State legislatures should exercise their constitutional authority to enact laws now to prevent election fraud in the future. Presidential electors in future elections should be selected based nearly entirely on in-person voting.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andyschlafly; impeachment; johnschlafly; trump
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To: Kaslin
C/J Roberts is supposed to be the presiding impeachment officer, as the Constitution requires.

Instead hyper-partisan Sen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) will preside; he has vowed to remain (cough) "impartial."

(Cue hysterical laughter here)

REALITY CHECK Leahy is on record as having voted in favor of Trump Impeachment One.

Leahy being impartial is tantamount to asking Hunter Biden, himself, as to whether Hunter Biden's activities broke any laws.

21 posted on 01/27/2021 7:22:52 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Kaslin

Because, like Michael Corleone, the Democrats have to take out all their enemies, not simply best them.


22 posted on 01/27/2021 7:25:34 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kaslin

This reminds me of Zaphod Beeblebrox in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Their goal is to distract from what those in power are doing.


23 posted on 01/27/2021 7:26:02 AM PST by tbw2
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To: Kaslin

Aren’t Toomey and Murkowski up for reelection in 2022? If they are to be “primaried,” we need to get on it.


24 posted on 01/27/2021 7:28:35 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Kaslin

With zero media presence those who opposed the steal are being silenced.
I know the leftist media is pushing trump incited insurrection garbage 24/7.

They’re banning “stop the steal” posters right and left. Mewe and gab and alternatives simply aren’t effective platforms yet, if they ever will be.

The left is probably winning the information war.


25 posted on 01/27/2021 7:36:28 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: kjam22

This is turning as bad a production as the all-gyrl sequel to Ghost Busters. The imagination deficiency that Hollywood suffers from has spread to DC/Swamp.


26 posted on 01/27/2021 7:43:21 AM PST by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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To: EliRoom8

Why are you asking me? They’re not my senators? You can do a search as well as I.


27 posted on 01/27/2021 7:43:42 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin
Impeaching someone twice without a conviction reflects on Pelosi and the House leadership, not Trump.
28 posted on 01/27/2021 7:57:19 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Kaslin
"Among its many bad provisions, H.R. 1 would prohibit states from requiring voter ID, requiring signature authentication for mail-in ballots, or restricting the process of ballot harvesting and the use of unattended drop boxes."

The Congress DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to determine those things...only the state legislatures do. Past restrictions of this sort have been imposed by the courts in the name of racial integration. Outside of court-imposed rules, state legislatures ONLY have said authority under the Constitution. Blatantly un-Constitutional legislation.

29 posted on 01/27/2021 8:00:17 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: Kaslin

The Dems are pushing Trump out front on purpose. They NEED Trump actively in the limelight. Withot him as their Bogey Man they are nothing. They want the next 4 years to continue to be all about Orange Man bad, we can’t let him back, send us your money.
They don’t want their own people thinking about what they’re actually doing.


30 posted on 01/27/2021 8:05:22 AM PST by weston (As as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: Kaslin
Mirrored from Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSJV1B9PV10 You were intentionally left out of the loop.

So was America! This is not a BITCHUTET production. It's a PBS. The "networks" refused to air it.

Succinctly put into perrspective

31 posted on 01/27/2021 8:40:32 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: kjam22

I’m telling you, if this happens, we need to accept the fact we need to create mass fake ballots just like they do. And I’m not kidding. If we do not, we will live in a one party Dictatorship.

“It’s no accident that Nancy Pelosi, as her first order of business in the new Congress, is moving a bill to require all states to remain vulnerable to future election fraud. Among its many bad provisions, H.R. 1 would prohibit states from requiring voter ID, requiring signature authentication for mail-in ballots, or restricting the process of ballot harvesting and the use of unattended drop boxes.”


32 posted on 01/27/2021 8:44:49 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: knarf

removed for violating youtubes community standards


33 posted on 01/27/2021 9:11:01 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: Kaslin

My comment was not specifically directed at you. Sorry it seemed that way.


34 posted on 01/27/2021 12:14:51 PM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Kaslin
"Trump will undoubtedly be campaigning for those congressmen and senators who stood with him, and against the political traitors who turned against him. This guarantees that Trump will remain the dominant force within the Republican Party."

A good piece, short grafs that advance the argument, and a money shot right in the center.

35 posted on 01/27/2021 12:51:38 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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