Leahy has one of these next to his notes on the desk where he is presiding
Posted on 02/12/2021 6:13:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At least a dozen Republican Senators reportedly walked out of the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday, after lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tried to argue that years of Trump rallies were incitement to violence.
National Review reporter John McCormack reported several Republican Senators left the chamber during part of Raskin’s presentation, and missed the subsequent argument of Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), who argued that Trump was a future danger.
Inside the Senate chamber:
Trump’s 2016 rivals Rubio, Cruz, and Graham watched intently as video documented Trump’s 2015-2020 remarks making light of or justifying political violence.
Graham, Rubio, and Cruz then left and didn’t watch Lieu’s presentation from the floor.
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) February 11, 2021
At least a dozen Senate Republicans skipped at least part of Lieu’s presentation.
Lieu warned of history repeating itself:“I’m afraid [Trump is] going to run again and lose.”
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) February 11, 2021
Raskin tried to claim that Trump’s speech on January 6 incited the Capitol riot because he had spent years encouraging supporters to commit acts of violence, or condoning past acts of violence, often using specific coded language to do so.
Specifically, Raskin claimed Trump had incited violence against public officials in the past. He tried, for example, to link Trump to the plot uncovered (by the Trump administration) to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last fall, though one of the alleged plotters was a Black Lives Matter supporter, and another plotter had an anarchist flag and hated police.
Raskin also claimed, falsely, that Trump had praised neo-Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 — a familiar lie known as the “very fine people” hoax.
In fact, Trump said the neo-Nazis should be “condemned totally.”
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That is my contention.
PDoes not matter who we run for office or how many of us vote. As long as Democrats control the process and vote counting, the outcome is predetermined.
No, they won’t take a step backward. They are invincibly tone deaf and stupid. Republicans walking out on overheated BS instead of patiently enduring it is music to my eyes.
A bubble is the word. They live it.
Yup...they are Orwellian experts.
"Coded" - only people with the code can understand it.
Funny all these things are "dog whistles" and "coded," but only one side is able to "understand" them and point them out in their fake news generators. Maybe the lady doth protest too much?
Switched my party.
Mitch is a joke.
As are so many of them. . . on both sides now.
Just gutless.
I’m still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell me how this is fixed. . .
Amen to you.
They just have to make up their lies as they go.
How many bothered to come or stay for the whole show?
check out my tagline.......
Looking forward to it!
I’m with you. I think they are going to be working double overtime the next two years making sure that they have the cheating on election day fully in place for all future elections. I sadly do not see another Republican president. I would love to be wrong, but THIS election just stolen, proves we won’t. We won’t field another candidate that will pull the votes that Trump did. I don’t know of anyone around that can do that.
My wife has said basically the same thing. She said why the hell should I go vote if they are simply going to CHEAT (yup, she screamed it and she is not a screamer, but a soft spoken lass) and win that way. She is not a political person, but she really hates voting. Trump was the first person she voted for since Reagan that she actually wanted to vote for. I feel exactly the same way. In my entire voting lifetime, that goes back to 1968 when I first voted in an actual election, Reagan and Trump are the ONLY TWO that I voted for that I did not hold my nose and click or mark the ballot.
Only if an election is allowed to happen.
No guarantee
Yep, same Patriotic agenda
The Freedom Caucus in the House started because of the TPM influence, first called the Tea Party Caucus
They got so much flack for that they changed the name
the mass mail-ins should not be happening
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Yeah, but the dems will still push for it and get it
And online voting too
We all should vote for dems, give them complete control of the government
Then they will get so far left communist, that the people will rise up and take the country back.
He may want to put his energy and money into his children and other relatives. A Trump (Bush look-alike) dynasty. Barron Trump in 2045?
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