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Lindsey Graham: A Senate impeachment trial will 'indefinitely' delay national healing
Washington Examiner ^ | JANUARY 17, 2021 | MICA SOELLNER

Posted on 01/17/2021 11:19:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Sen. Lindsey Graham said if the Senate doesn't dismiss the impeachment article against President Trump, national healing could be delayed "indefinitely."

The South Carolina Republican urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will soon become the majority leader, that a Senate trial for Trump's second impeachment would be an "unconstitutional act of political vengeance."

"In your first act as Majority Leader, rather than begin the national healing that the country so desperately yearns for, you seek vengeance and political retaliation instead," Graham wrote in a letter sent Sunday.

Graham added that the impeachment of a president no longer in office will potentially leave the country eternally divided.

"We will be delaying indefinitely, if not forever, the healing of this great nation," he said.

Other allies of Trump have echoed Graham's calls that the second impeachment is "unconstitutional."

Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that there's precedent to suggest a president shouldn't be impeached once they leave office.

The Harvard Law professor cited there was no effort to impeach President Richard Nixon once he left office and a failed effort to remove the secretary of war in 1876. He claimed there is no jurisdiction to put Trump as a private citizen on trial.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Graham is as usual out of touch with the base of the party. There can be no healing when the party “leaders” like Graham fail to stand up for its members. And, there is definitely not going to be national healing when we experienced the last four years of the Democrats trying to remove a duly elected president and then stole the election.


21 posted on 01/17/2021 11:36:51 AM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
There will be no healing, you freakin' moron.
22 posted on 01/17/2021 11:36:57 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: BenLurkin

My sentiments exactly. There is no healing until the usurper steps down and the rightful President is restored.


23 posted on 01/17/2021 11:39:58 AM PST by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: rlmorel

Not only would an impeachment trial held after January 20th, 2021, for the removal of Donald J. Trump as President be completely meaningless, it probably exceeds the language of the Constitution, in which there may be no “Bill of Attainder” (Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3) charged against then private citizen Donald J. Trump.

Ain’t a can of worms that should be opened, cowboys.


24 posted on 01/17/2021 11:40:39 AM PST by alloysteel (No night is so dark, that it cannot fall into an absolute blackness. But hope springs eternal.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why is it that it’s always the losing side is the one who sees the need for ‘healing’?


25 posted on 01/17/2021 11:41:19 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m there. I realize for most it will take awhile to see through the propaganda, if they ever do.


26 posted on 01/17/2021 11:41:57 AM PST by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; Califreak; ColdOne; ...
linda
Graham
ping!

Want on or off linda's fav ping list? Just FReepmail me.


27 posted on 01/17/2021 11:42:24 AM PST by upchuck (The deep state swamp: You gotta be a snake killer or a snake. ~ h/t .44 Special)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So will military tribunals but they are going to happen.


28 posted on 01/17/2021 11:42:40 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Grahamnesty’s amnesty will heal everything......./s


29 posted on 01/17/2021 11:42:53 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents{}Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Same.


30 posted on 01/17/2021 11:42:54 AM PST by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: PIF

To drive them nuttier!

Resist/Impeach!


31 posted on 01/17/2021 11:42:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: falcon99

Agreed and for the same reasons.


32 posted on 01/17/2021 11:43:30 AM PST by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: DoughtyOne; E. Pluribus Unum

HAS TO BE PROVEN IT WAS NOT STOLEN!!!!

Yes, caps and ‘they’ have to prove it was legitimate before ANY healing begins.

Boils have to be lanced and this is a boil on his lower anatomy parts! At least it is from this poster!

And until proven it was NOT stolen, sticking to it!


33 posted on 01/17/2021 11:44:05 AM PST by pilgrim
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Go to Hell, Lindsey.


34 posted on 01/17/2021 11:44:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There will be no national healing. At least, not without a serious brouhaha.


35 posted on 01/17/2021 11:45:07 AM PST by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: rlmorel
There will be no “national healing”

Roger that. Not until Marxists swing.

36 posted on 01/17/2021 11:45:58 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: jersey117
"Too bad China Mitch doesn’t see it that way. I wasn’t planning on healing with the rats anyway. I’ve disowned every liberal friend and family member I have so it won’t be a problem ignoring a fake administration and propaganda media for four years. I don’t miss the propaganda state run media or social media one bit."

A lot of we/Deploreables are where you are!

For me to consent to an election result, an election actually had to take place!

posted on 1/17/2021, 10:18:12 AM by freedomjusticeruleoflaw

37 posted on 01/17/2021 11:48:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: rlmorel

Not only would an impeachment trial held after January 20th, 2021, for the removal of Donald J. Trump as President be completely meaningless, it probably exceeds the language of the Constitution, in which there may be no “Bill of Attainder” (Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3) charged against then private citizen Donald J. Trump.

Ain’t a can of worms that should be opened, cowboys.


38 posted on 01/17/2021 11:49:19 AM PST by alloysteel (No night is so dark, that it cannot fall into an absolute blackness. But hope springs eternal.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Linda can go run off with Mayor Peter Peter pumpkin eater for all I care.

There will be no healing. The RATS stolen the presidency and God knows how many Senate and House seats. *uck ‘em!


39 posted on 01/17/2021 11:49:54 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump.....one of the BEST presidents in American history!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“Healing” with democrats would be like an abused wife going back to the man who beats her up.

NO WAY. Never.

We don’t ‘heal’ with white liberal ‘elite’ thugs.


40 posted on 01/17/2021 11:52:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Megan McCain and Liz Chaney starting new Party - "Born On Third - Sure we Hit a Triple".)
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