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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: rlmorel
There will be no “national healing” over this.

You took the words out of my mouth.

41 posted on 01/17/2021 11:52:59 AM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A Senate impeachment trial Biden inauguration will 'indefinitely' delay national healing

Fixed.

42 posted on 01/17/2021 11:55:38 AM PST by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: jersey117

I’m with you jersey117 as well as the other posters on this thread. They’ll get what they damn well deserve.


43 posted on 01/17/2021 11:55:52 AM PST by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun". "WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT")
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To: rlmorel

They don’t want healing they want to cancel


44 posted on 01/17/2021 11:58:18 AM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: GOPJ
abused wife

Sounds like you may have gotten a peak at the Quisling's blackmail files...

(I think the Senator is the wife... :-) )
45 posted on 01/17/2021 11:58:44 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As long as Biden and his cronies are in charge, there’s no “national healing 🙄”


46 posted on 01/17/2021 12:00:08 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Rats are trying to deny us the right to vote for whomever we want to.


47 posted on 01/17/2021 12:00:38 PM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: TheDon

Some folks sill be blinded by what they have been led to
believe to this point. You know the type, hard to breath
and blink at the same time.


48 posted on 01/17/2021 12:10:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne (We are all to be treated like the Randy Weaver family and Banch Dividian folks now.)
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To: pilgrim

Things have a way of working their way toward the surface.

The Communists will become too complacent. They’ll start
bragging about what they did.

If not that, something else will happen.

Watch them suddenly find laws that need to be enacted to
prevent the very things they did.

May be this is what had to happen, before the nation’s
populace could grasp how evil the Communists are.

Stay tuned...


49 posted on 01/17/2021 12:13:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (We are all to be treated like the Randy Weaver family and Banch Dividian folks now.)
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To: Cuttnhorse

For what little it’s worth I emailed Maria after that segment to tell her that her Sunday AM show is the last Fox program we watch, and that putting Graham on air was an insult to 80M MAGA voters.


50 posted on 01/17/2021 12:15:23 PM PST by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: alloysteel

Biden and thugs want to ‘heal’ by giving the finger to half the American people on the day of the Inauguration...

That’s almost as ‘gracious’ as Obama and his thugs in the FBI trying to take Trump down with lies about fake dossiers...

Democrats are low class shits...


51 posted on 01/17/2021 12:19:41 PM PST by GOPJ (Megan McCain and Liz Chaney starting new Party - "Born On Third - Sure we Hit a Triple".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Graham’s argument doesn’t make any sense.

The voters aren’t going to “change their split” based on whether or not the Senate conducts a trial.

Graham is trying to deny a hearing to Trump’s arguments.


52 posted on 01/17/2021 12:22:37 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Republicants are moving forward with message that the election was not stolen, and they can't wait for your donations and votes during the next cycle.

After all, "we are little less Chinese than the Rats, you gullible rubes."

53 posted on 01/17/2021 12:22:44 PM PST by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: The Accused
-- National obedience and/or submission is the plan. --

Right. That's synonymous with "national healing" under the meaning that Congress assigns. Also known as "reaching across the aisle," "doing the work we were sent here to do," and so on.

54 posted on 01/17/2021 12:24:41 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Grampa Dave

To drive them nuttier!

Resist/Impeach!

Driving them nuttier will cause them to murder millions.

Impeach is a lost cause for decades at best.

Resist yes - its all we can do.


55 posted on 01/17/2021 12:27:33 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

There will be no “healing” until every last Democrat and RINO is dead.


56 posted on 01/17/2021 12:34:54 PM PST by Noumenon (s long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. (KTF))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Since the communists list Lindsay think accepting communism is ‘healing’, I’d rather stay divided.


57 posted on 01/17/2021 12:35:48 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The left has gone full fascist. Stolen election, stacked courts, and blanket censorship or opposition.

Unless the right decides to just bow down and accept a boot on their neck there is no path to healing that doesn't end with one side or the other destroyed. And that will be an ugly process that plays out for years to come.

58 posted on 01/17/2021 12:40:07 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It will definitely make it worse but there is no healing.


59 posted on 01/17/2021 12:42:32 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: inchworm; BenLurkin; EinNYC; Sacajaweau; high info voter; Howie66; TLI; The Accused; Grampa Dave; ..
In Islam, they have what is called The House of Peace and The House of War.

The House of Peace is where everyone is either a muslim or muslim convert completely under the thumb of Islam in Islamic lands, and those who aren't, pay a tax for the privilege of being allowed to live among muslims as second class citizens.

The House of War is everyone and everywhere else.

Unsurprisingly, that describes Leftists exactly.

They describe their Leftist House of Peace (To them, an environment of "unity") as a place where everyone is completely on board or converted to the Leftist agenda and dogma, and who pays their taxes to live as second class citizens as long as they shut up and pay.

In this they are worse than Islam (who might not object if you mouth the belief in Islam but really don't believe it in your head) because like Winston in Orwell's '1984', even thinking differently is not allowed. You have to both appear to believe it and agree in your head with their religion, otherwise, your thought is classified as CrimeThink which is a horrible to them as saying it aloud.

Everyone who doesn't believe the dogma of Leftism both externally in their actions and embraces it inside their heads is in their Leftist House of War.

And right now, that is any Conservative.


As an aside, I saw a flag at half mast today, and asked my wife what it was for (since I don't watch the news) and she said it was for the policeman who died during the Capital Hill event.

I get pissed off when the flag is flown at half mast for every Tom, Dick, and Harry for two main reasons: First, if they aren't a President they are almost always a Leftist favorite or someone being used as a tool by the Left. Second, we have had thousands of far better men who have died who aren't extended that privilege...nor should they be.

This constant flying of the flag a half mast for everyone and everything mocks the meaning, dilutes the meaning, and keeps our country in a perpetual state of frightened victimhood.

60 posted on 01/17/2021 12:52:37 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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