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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cocaine mitch on the floor mumbling nonsense - he needs to retire.
Can't Trump have just ONE MINUTE of glory from his acquittal? IT SEEMS NOT!
Only Murkowski is up in 2022.
That will be one crazy race. Democrats will be voting for the “Republican” and disenfranchised Trump voters will be voting for the Democrat.
I guess.....
mitch is as demented as slo joe
chinese women know how to use knives...
Only if she wins the primary. I don’t she will.
Probably
I hope the RNC asks me for a donation......one word...”Seriously??”.
Hopefully it's a national race.
Ok so I did some digging.
Burr is retiring.
Sass, Collins and Cassidy are up in 2026.
Romney is up in 2024.
Only Merkowski is up in 2022. She’s who needs to have the focus on. Anybody in Alaska available to beat her in the primary? That what we need.
The rest will have to wait. Burr won’t have any consequences.
he might wake up some morning to the smell of his own sausage cooking...
Toomey also is retiring and will face no consequences.
i’m ready.
> McConnell is owned by the CCP. He is obeying his ChiCom masters. <
Now let’s not get carried away here. It’s not like McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao has ties to Red China, or anything like that. Oh, wait. Elaine Chao and her family are VERY tied to Red China.
From Wikipedia:
“Federal disclosures cited by The New York Times revealed a gift to Chao and her husband Mitch McConnell from Chao’s businessman father James, valued at between US$5 million and $25 million. The company her father founded (and which her sister, Angela, currently runs), The Foremost Group, has extensive ties to the Chinese state and Chinese elites.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao#Potential_conflicts_of_interest
Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey are the "R"s who voted to convict. King, an Indie, also did.
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