Posted on 02/13/2021 1:05:24 PM PST by conservative98
The Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump of an article of impeachment that charged he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The 57-43 vote fell far short of the Constitution’s two-thirds requirement.
Trump attorney Michael van der Veen maintained in closing arguments that Democrats were hypocritical for impeaching Trump over a heated pre-riot speech and said the proceeding was unconstitutional.
“Throughout the summer Democrat leaders including the current president and vice president repeatedly made comments that provided moral comfort to mobs attacking police officers,” van der Veen said.
Van der Veen said that that the Capitol break-in that disrupted certification of President Biden’s victory and left five dead actually “was pre-planned and premeditated by fringe left and right groups.”
“The gathering on Jan. 6 was supposed to be an entirely peaceful event,” van der Veen said. He argued that local officials failed to provide adequate security for the Capitol.
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So the BS drama kangaroo show is over huh? Payback’s a bitch.
Good. Now impeach congress.
Maxine Waters: Impeach 47!
Performance Theater. What a waste of time and resources on a completely unconstitutional and unwarranted proceeding.
The Teflon Don
If the vote had been secret, it would have been a conviction.
woohoo!!! Trump 2024!
The STOLEN election is merely a "conspiracy theory".
Now let’s primary and oust Burr, Cassady, Collins, Murkowski, Romney and Sasse.
To the lame so called Republicans, who voted YES to impeachment, may you rot in hell with Lucifer! You people who voted for those jokers better wake up and remember!
I find it very telling that all of this White Supremacy BS started about the same time that the Democrats realized they were losing the black vote to Trump. While that load of crap got some traction, they were still sufficiently worried to try another bogus impeachment trial that, once again, proved to be a monumental waste of time. They should be ashamed...but that would assume they have a still-functioning moral compass.
It's go time!
Anyone listening to Mitch McConnell right now? He is slicing and dicing Trump.
So, who were the “Magnificent 7”?
WHY THE HELL IS MCCONNELL DOING THIS... HE IS TRYING TO RUN TRUMP OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY... MCCONNELL HAS GONE NUTS OR THE SWAMP HAS THREATENED HIM OR HE IS THE SWAMP. HE IS CRAZY.
Is there a list handy of the Rino’s?
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