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.
It will also ignite a civil war!
Their deluded voters are, thanks to their brainwashing by their "leaders."
Their "leaders" in Washington, however, are mostly overcome with insane FEAR of a private citizen becoming President and finding out what they've been up to for decades.
democrats are just organized crime masquerading as a political party.
It is a classic Bill of Attainder.
But in a way it doesn’t matter. Whatever happens, the Democrats are going to have their Justice Department arrest Trump and charge him for made up crimes.
The Rats are American-hating scumbags that have no problem undermining the will of the citizens.
its called the UniParty....
From now I’m referring to the Capitol building as the Death Star.
It sounds like a Communist show trial, with the exception that they can’t force the accused under guard to show up and “confess” his sins. Distortion of what President Trump said and meant id an integral part of the morality play. It was crucial that there be the January 6 event, which is why the Democrats probably planned and allowed it.
TIME Claims a “Secret Cabal” colluded to manipulate the 2020 election to Stop Trump……..and get this……... “to save democracy.”
(cue hysterical laughter here)
The hypocrisy is stultifying. These same people went postal over Russian interference.
Now Time tells us the interference was in our own backyard.
TIME recounts activities that are downright illegal and dangerous to free and fair elections.
Yet, we, the people, hear not even one discouraging word.
Listen up students.
A secret cabal of wealthy and politically-connected elites
conspiring to manipulate an election is directly counter to (drum roll please)......”a democracy.”
More like tin pot third world dictators scared of losing their sinecures.
That’s what I’m afraid of...they’ll take him into arrest as soon as the proceedings are over. No crime is necessary. They’ll find something.
In my opinion, that’s why they’re keeping the troops in DC.
This kabuki is the same old fraud that the democs have perpetrated on this country for four years! It is time that the Supreme Court call a halt to this madness before the USA is a page in history!
Democrats will do whatever they think they can get away with, Constitution be damned. If they thought they could order our genocide they would try that too and don’t think for a moment they don’t have it on the back burner to eventually attempt in some way or another down the road.
The breathing thing. You are the second person I read today that has mentioned that. _resident of the Cheat is running out of earth time.
President Trump is NOT going to be present at the Capitol Circus Catastrophe.
THE ENTIRETY OF THE SLOE JOE AND THE HOE’S ADMINISTRATION THUS FAR REEKS OF “POLITICAL RETRIBUTION.”
Not to mention being illegal and unconstitutional!
I think he appears to be out of breath sometimes.
And there is no more jogging to the podium.
The only place he jogs to now is the bathroom.
This is the week to take a media break.
I agree, that is why they are keeping all the troops in D.C., they basically are setting up a police state.
This IS NOT an impeachment trial. To go there other than to stand up and say the same thing and then to state that as such and as a result we intend to not participate in these ‘circus clown car follies’, then sit down or stand up and leave!
We may be in a JAN 6 situation for real again if the ‘fortified’ dems don’t start getting their sh*t together and quit acting just like Nazi, fascist, commie , socialistic bastards! I know impossible for them!
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