Susan Collins Defends Vote to Convict Trump: It Was a ‘Culmination of Actions’ that Started ‘Even Before the Election’

Breitbart ^ | 02/16/2021 | Hannah Bleau

[ChicagoConservative27]

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) defended her decision to convict former President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection during an appearance Tuesday on WLOB radio with host Ray Richardson, explaining that she voted to convict Trump not just based on his January 6 speech alone but his “culmination of actions which started even before the election occurred.”

[redfreedom]

As with the impeachment trial, this joke was in essence a juror, and as such votes based on evidence presented at a trial, not based on personal prejudices obtained prior to the trail.

Yet that is exactly why all the those voting in favor of conviction did so. In a real court of law, with a real judge, a circus like this would not have prevailed. But this is congress, the greatest circus with the most clowns crammed into the big tent of the Capitol building imaginable.

Her IQ approaches that of a plankton.

[SDShack]

FEAR. Can you smell it? The Rinos are TRULY afraid of their voters. That’s why they are fine with calling the capitol protest an ‘insurrection’. It’s why they are fine with hiding behind barbed wire and thousands of troops now. They have now been exposed as the lying traitors they truly are and how they actually HATE their voters. Being exposed, they are NOW trying to do damage control but it will not work. Georgia proved that. Govt is now an enemy of the people. We are living the Hunger Games.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Again think Kavanaugh. Better yet think 2022-Murkowski. We can do something about it as Alaska isn’t Maine. I can’t make any of you use your head nut this is a waste of time. She’s only through if Maine turns red.

[M Kehoe]

Collins, you and Mittens would be more “comfortable” in the ‘rat party.

Do it now so everyone knows you are a traitor.

5.56mm

[vigilence]

So she bought into the vague notion of prior steps of incitement but rejected the President’s explicit directions to remain peaceful on the day of? What a moron.

[pepsi_junkie]

Let me say it again-give her a pass.

Sure. and let's give Mitt Romney a pass because he lived in Boston for decades. And all the other RINO's because ... reasons.

You get the worst party you are willing to tolerate. I'm ready to stop lowering expectations.

[petitfour]

So she voted the way she did because she doesn’t like him. She doesn’t care much for Americans either.

[xzins]

Sen Johnson says there was NO Insurrection at all. In fact, the only shots fired were by the government, and they killed a non-violent Trump supporter.

“Sen. Johnson: Capitol Breach Didn’t Seem Like an ‘Armed Insurrection’ to Me”

https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/sen-johnson-capitol-breach-didnt-seem-like-an-armed-insurrection-to-me_3698150.html

[butlerweave]

Double Talk

[BenLurkin]

It was about the 2016 election.

She is still sore about that result.

[kiryandil]

She’ll be retiring inadvertently at 74 in 2026 - pretty young for a senatrix.

[SuperLuminal]

Definitely in the top-20 list...

[JonPreston]

Collins gets to insult us because some CONservatives vote for her regardless of how she behaves.

[MrRelevant]

Shes right, months before...as soon as the states began illegally mailing ballots to anyone and everyone the story began....then the cheating was realized...then it was obvious Biden was handed a win...and then Trump began complaining about being shafted...then his voters got upset that they were marginalized and their votes nullifed.....culminating in a riot at the capitol.

[mrmeyer]

She voted for Obama care to leave committee for a floor vote knowing it would pass. F**k her.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

This BS of voting for these asshats because the lesser of two evils HAS TO STOP!!! These RINOS are Dems WHEN IN THE HELL are we going to realize that!! Let the Dem have the seat for ONE TERM it is the only way to rid ourselves of these RINOS!!

[JonPreston]

I’m with you.

[Vaduz]

Spot on and the three monkey stays mum.

[Tudorfly]

Susan Collins is an idiot. She is the lesser evil of her democrat opponent every six years, but her intelligence and her love of America and the American constitution are subpar.

[Boogieman]

So she voted to convict him of a different offense than the one he was charged with? She’s not competent to sit on a jury, much less in the Senate then.