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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“If your debate opponents retreat to magical thinking about their abilities to detect secret movies and mental problems in strangers from a distance, you’ve won.” Scott Adams.
Why would Roberts do that? Talk about a guy with no shame.
Well, we can certainly hope and dream, can't we?
Meanwhile as I type this, Biden is allowing hundreds of thousands of illegals pour over our border. Guess who they will be voting for in 2024...
They can’t falsify evidence because there isn’t any.
I agree!
Omgosh.. That would be Delicious!! I had almost forgotten the Speaker doesn’t have to be a CongressCritter.
The crazy inmates are running the asylum and producing a 3 ring circus entitled bonfire of the insanities.
I have met Bruce Dammeier who is friends with Dick Muri, a very good friend of mine.
I don’t think most of them believe a word that they utter, though a few completely delusional ones might. They simply have no conscience, and will do or say absolutely anything necessary to get what they want. Slimy worms like Chuck Schumer definitely know that what they are saying is total B.S., but they don’t care. Most of them are also deeply twisted degenerates, which is why they subscribe to a brand of politics that is all about justifying their deviancy and silencing anyone who would dare call it what it is.
Wasn’t the date on one of the tweets wrong; Jan 3rd 2020 instead of Jan 3rd 2021 ?
“liberals” don’t “think”
It wasnt for the Senators which they know they have lost. It was for public consumption. The Dems and Leftist media will repeat it ad nauseam.
No, he should be a Congress critter. Take a seat.
Just which one?
That’s what we said after the last one... sand after Muller.
"documented?" Missing "allegedly" or "dishonestly claimed."
Actually, with the absence of the CJ Roberts this trial never started.
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And the reason Roberts isn't there...as mandated by the Constitution for the trial of an impeached sitting President...is because even he knows this "trial" is illegal as the Senate has zero authority to put a private citizen on trial.
Would actually be a remarkable plan save for one issue....removal of Xiden and the anchor baby could only occur via trial in the Senate.
The (R)'s would need to not only take control in 2022, but would also need to find several (D)'s to go along with a conviction.
Would be awesome though!
Your post shows that you’re one of the very few here who understand the situation. After the 2020 electoral carastrophe the now-defunct USA will never have a legitimate election ever again. The states that the Marxocrats own will statutorily permanentize electoral fraud. The USSC in the now-defunct USA will refuse to even consider any cases challenging the fraud from disenfranchised states that follow the Constitution. Posters on this site who bray on and on about voting for the next GOPee slate of quisling traitors are blind sleepwalkers who are too stupifyingly thickheaded to recognize that the GOPee itself voted to accept the fraudulent election results, thereby screwing every Trump voter in the process. We just witnessed the end of the United States of America. The only way forward from a catastrophe of this magnitude for those Americans who still value their freedom and liberty is state by state nullification, non-compliance, and secession. This will be made starkly clear as events unfold from this point forward.
Well I recall the Tea Party rallies.
They tried to use a broad brush then to paint them as ‘violent.’
No matter how many times nothing violent happened, parks were left cleaner than when we arrived, and everyone was safe, unharmed. In fact, I wasn’t afraid to go to any Tea Party rally.
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