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Trump Impeachment Is Unconstitutional and Reeks of Political Revenge
Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2021 | Congressman Bill Posey

Posted on 02/07/2021 1:06:46 PM PST by Kaslin

It’s no secret that from the day after the 2016 election, Democrats had their sights set on impeaching President Trump, even objecting on January 6, 2017 to the electoral votes starting with the State of Alabama, which President Trump won by 28 points, alleging “Russia Collusion.” When the Russian collusion conspiracy was proven to be make believe, they moved on to impeaching him over allegations made by an “anonymous whistleblower” who we later found out worked with Joe Biden when he was vice president. We may never know all the facts about those allegations because House Democrats denied President Trump his Sixth Amendment right to cross examine the witness against him.

Just like the Russian collusion narrative, it was all political theater, engineered before an election, and designed to railroad President Trump and energize the Democratic Party’s base of support at a time when the economy was thriving and our country was at peace. In the Senate there was little appetite for the show trial and the articles of impeachment were rightly dismissed. Trump Impeachment 2.0 is unconstitutional and should also be dismissed by the U.S. Senate.

Now that President Trump’s term has ended and he is a private citizen, the impeachment articles are irrelevant, and the case is moot. The U.S. Constitution limits impeachment jurisdiction to the current president, vice president and sitting federal civil office holders. Additionally, the Constitution prescribes a punishment that shall not go beyond removal from office with the possibility of being disqualified from holding office in the future. Since President Trump no longer holds office, the penalty if convicted is meaningless. It’s politics at its worst and will only serve to further divide our nation.

Furthermore, it is disingenuous to tie President Trump’s January 6th remarks with the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol. President Trump addressed the crowd by the White House grounds about two miles away from the Capitol, exercising his right under the First Amendment, and he asked attendees to protest peacefully. He did not use any language during his address that could be construed as incitement. He also rightly denounced the violence and instructed federal authorities to bring those responsible for breaking the law to justice.

There is good reason to believe that a group of individuals, unaffiliated with the rally, assembled, broke the law, and disobeyed police orders by breeching the doors of the U.S. Capitol even before President Trump made his remarks. We also now know that bombs were placed outside the Republican and Democratic Committee Headquarters in the early morning hours indicating violence was planned possibly weeks in advance.

House Democrats were so eager to get another shot at impeaching President Trump that they bypassed the regular process and denied President Trump, members of Congress and the American people the prerequisite fact-finding through committee hearings and official investigations into the events of January 6th. We still do not have a full accounting of what took place, and what organizations and individuals were involved in the violent acts that day, though I have requested this information from law enforcement authorities. We need a bipartisan commission to investigate those events.

Truth be told, President Trump’s real offense is that he beat Hillary Clinton four years ago in an upset election that liberal Democrats and the Washington establishment have never gotten over. This impeachment reeks of political revenge and is a waste of valuable time Congress could be dedicating to uniting the country and getting Americans safely back to work. Antics like this are an abuse of power, but sadly are in line with other abuses of power in the opening month of the new Congress: removing a member of Congress for statements made before she became a member of Congress and changing House rules to prohibit Republicans from offering an amendment at the end of House debate on legislation (a right that the minority party has had for more than 100 years).

These highly partisan actions make many Americans cynical about politics and distrustful of Washington and the motives of our leaders. At a time when Congress should be thinking about ways to unify the nation and improve the public’s trust, it has hit rock bottom and started digging deeper.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 02/07/2021 1:06:46 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Duh. Tell us something we don’t know.


2 posted on 02/07/2021 1:08:37 PM PST by albie
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To: Kaslin

Hey Kaz-this is what they do. What else is new?


3 posted on 02/07/2021 1:08:42 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Kaslin

The Commie-Crat party is overcome with insane HATE.


4 posted on 02/07/2021 1:10:23 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Kaslin

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5 posted on 02/07/2021 1:10:44 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: Kaslin
Trump Impeachment Is Unconstitutional and Reeks of Political Revenge

Ya Think!

6 posted on 02/07/2021 1:10:54 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: albie

Well..at least you saved me from posting that very thing.


7 posted on 02/07/2021 1:11:45 PM PST by crz
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To: CMailBag

The Commie-Crat party is overcome with insane HATE.


The irony is that the liberals preach to us how LOVE TRUMPS HATE. But they themselves are full of hate.


8 posted on 02/07/2021 1:12:13 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

And what are the Republicans going to do about it? Demand a Bigger Cut for the SELLING OUT OF AMERICA??


9 posted on 02/07/2021 1:12:41 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Kaslin

Watching Biden lie on tv right now that Trump lied about how much vaccine was available and “lost time”.

He keeps saying he “thinks” his administration can do various things. Total bs.

I can already tell this is highly edited to clean up his answers.

I think he even has trouble breathing.


10 posted on 02/07/2021 1:14:26 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Kaslin
What did this Congressman do during the 4 years when Trump was being persecuted by the fake Russian collusion and billions of other fabricated scandals?

Very few Republicans came out and defended Trump. Trump single-handedly gave the Stupid Party control over D.C. and they pissed it away.

11 posted on 02/07/2021 1:15:52 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: Kaslin

Case of transfer and projection of a swamp liberal’s own impotency.

Liberals cannot even control their own children’s hatred for their parent authority, not daring spanking them, so they have to take this neurotic tribal hatred unto an imaginary King Trump to attack and revile, a presidential piñata to beat because they cannot beat their own kids and their kids are just as impotent.

Same with illegals and the “big tent” primitives from shthole neighborhoods and countries they revile but they force themselves to cohabitate with, impotent to harp on these kingly testicle teabagging authorities over their faces.


12 posted on 02/07/2021 1:18:26 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Shamed republicans should simply resign in disgrace like Nixon and let the other ones continue on.

But this is a Totem and Taboo bunch of savages and schizo retreads who want to use their king as a piñata of responsibility for their own failures and impotency.


13 posted on 02/07/2021 1:20:16 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Kaslin

“Trump Impeachment is Unconstitutional and Reeks of Political Revenge”

Pelosi and Schumer: “He says that like it’s a bad thing.”


14 posted on 02/07/2021 1:20:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Trump Impeachment Is Unconstitutional and Reeks of Political Revenge
Ya Think!


The media are going to cover this event as if it is a solemn impeachment trial.

Two things the media is not talking about :

1. Trump is out of office, and so an impeachment trial to remove him from office is a moot point. Yet the Democrats insist on doing it anyway.

2. John Roberts is not going to be presiding. The Constitution indicates that in a presidential impeachment, that the Chief Justice shall preside. It’s not optional as to whether the Chief Justice will be there. Thus, John Roberts not being there, calls into question whether this is a legitimate trial at all.


15 posted on 02/07/2021 1:23:14 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

You can almost smell the Pelosi (s/a limburger cheese) on the left coast, And she spends all her time in the D. C.


16 posted on 02/07/2021 1:32:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Kaslin

The assemblage of liars, thieves and perverts in Versailles on the Potomac do not represent us. They care not one twit what we think. We only count for donations and votes.

Since they do not represent us, nor listen to us, turnabout is fair play. Nullify everything they do. Ignore their pleas for money. Mock them at every opportunity.


17 posted on 02/07/2021 1:33:42 PM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Kaslin

https://youtu.be/7n6YpYCOxbM


18 posted on 02/07/2021 1:34:02 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Kaslin
Reeks of? This doesn't "reek of" anything. This is what is wrong with Republicans. Everything they say allows for even the slightest possibility they may be wrong, giving Democrats the benefit of doubt. Get your head out of your ass, Congressman. This IS political revenge. And it will be successful with the likes of cowards on the right like you.
19 posted on 02/07/2021 1:36:14 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Kaslin

Dopes impeaching a former president. Isn’t the impeachment used to remove a SITTING president?


20 posted on 02/07/2021 1:54:15 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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