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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Oh, and in what other “court” does the presiding judge get to vote?
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Absolutely!
If Secret, he’s convicted!
I’m listening to Moribund Mitch right now (voted by GOP peers as their leader in the senate) and I’m so angry I could vomit.
Democrats always overplay every hand. They go off half-cocked shooting from the hip and shoot themselves in the foot. That’s what living in a house of lies gets you. They truly are evil and stupid.
McConnell is inciting right now as we speak. Who in the hell does the bastard think he is. IF he felt this way why in the hell did he vote for acquittal?
McConnell is owned by the CCP. He is obeying his ChiCom masters.
Impeachment Defense Counsel: "Mr. Clinton - when you ejaculated into the sink in the galley kitchen off of the Oval Office of the White House, was that before or after Monica Lewinsky inserted her tongue in your rectum?"
or
Impeachment Defense Counsel: "Mr. Clinton - In the Starr Report summary of grand jury testimony it is revealed that you articulated a cigar in Monica Lewinsky's vagina before smoking it. Sir, what was the brand of that cigar, how would you rate its flavor and draw?"
Anyone got the list of who voted which way?
I can’t figure out why McConnell is doing this. It makes no sense...... there is nothing to be gained here
McConnell is a major Swamp Thug.
So!
Seven GOPe communists voted against acquittal? 😡
Their reservations in Fort Marcy Park are guaranteed, I hope...
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See Cheney
See McCarthy
See Graham
See Thune
See Grassley
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Why wait for primaries?
Recall them!
Where there’s a will, there’s a way...
Turncoat Mitch McConnell is badmouthing Trump right now big-time. Hope Trump runs 3rd Party and sticks it to that RAT disguised as a RINO.
Only Murkowski is up in 2022.
“If Secret, he’s convicted!”
Explain to me, please. I’m a newbie, sort of.
This is all about, we the people. McConnell is coming at us.
“I can’t figure out why McConnell is doing this. It makes no sense...... there is nothing to be gained here.”
Because he always was and is an anti-Trumper. He disgusts me.
I’m listening to Moribund Mitch right now (voted by GOP peers as their leader in the senate) and I’m so angry I could vomit.
Don’t get angry. The GOP isn’t worth that. Get even. Just don’t vote for the Republicans on your general election ballot in the future.
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