Posted on 02/01/2021 9:24:42 AM PST by karpov
Even as a mere Florida man, former President Donald Trump sure looks as if he's trying to knife the Republican Party.
On Saturday morning, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the House's resident anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy theorist, boasted that she had shared a call with the supportive former president. By evening, news emerged that Trump's legal team had resigned barely 48 hours before his first response to the article of impeachment is due and a little more than a week before the Senate trial begins. The reason: Trump wants to present the one defense that would render it political suicide to acquit him.
Trump could argue that despite inviting his fans to Washington, D.C., during a pandemic and telling them he would lead them to the Capitol to "stop the steal," his aside that they ought to do so "peacefully and patriotically" shows he was not trying to incite violence. As a matter of process, he could also argue that the trial itself is illegitimate because he is now out of office — a position that 45 out of 50 Republican senators agree on. Either of these arguments might be weak, but both are at least something.
But no. Instead, to defend himself from the charge that he incited an insurrection at the Capitol, Trump reportedly wants to claim the election really was stolen from him. As one may notice, this is not a defense against incitement but rather a justification for it.
The Republican Party has carefully avoided defending Trump on the merits of his actions — even Trump's most loyal supporters. Sen. Rand Paul did him a big favor by forcing a vote on the constitutionality of a post-presidential impeachment trial. That has essentially locked 45 senators into acquittal on constitutional grounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“Not a single state found sufficient evidence to go to trial”
Wrong. Not a single state has
allowed the evidence to be
presented in a court of law.
Cases were dismissed as baseless,
and investigated reports of
election fraud were not done
in such a manner as to expose it.
II couldn’t take this serious past.....
“The party that spent five years lavishing him with undying loyalty...”
I replied to this ridiculous post early on yesterday {Number 7} and waited until this morning, to see your reply.
Over 140 people replied and I haven't seen a single response from you.
Your screen name, you claim was chosen because you play chess, I say it was chosen because you are member of the communist party of MA.
You throw out a bomb, and run for cover, it's what communists do.
Piss off, mate.
Check out his or her posting history. You are correct. He just drops steaming turds all over Jim's front porch and skiddadles.
I am loyal to the Republican party, not necessarily to Trump, who I did vote for in 2020. Trump is 74 years old. We’ll need a right wing party to restrain the Democrats long after Trump is gone. Sure, look at my posting history. I support conservative policies but do not think any politician is above criticism.
The fact remains that asserting the election is rigged is not the most effective way for Trump to avoid conviction in the Senate.
See post 145.
Is your real name Weaver, and did you co-found the Lincoln Project?
With a wife and a coupla kids, why are you chasing so many young men?
BTW, Responding a day later because a coupla FReepers called you out is weak, but for a founding member of the Lincoln Proyect, I guess it's the best you can do.
I’m not Weaver, and you should stop making stuff up about me.
The purpose of the GOPe has been to maintain the pretense (and JUST the pretense) of there being any opposition to the socialist/globalist agenda.
The job of the GOPe, as a subsidiary arm of the globalists, is to get globalist stooges elected in conservative areas (areas that would not want to elect a Democrat) who will make nice noises, and then go along with the Dems on anything really important to the globalist agenda.
The reason both sides opposed Trump, is because he would not go along.
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