Grinding out new articles of impeachment for 74-year-old President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives blames Trump for the Jan. 6 mob scene at the Capitol where a small fraction of Trump’s supporters at a rally went ballistic and stormed the Capitol. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the House could vote on the articles Wednesday but would likely not get to them to debate until Jan. 19, just in time to ruin 78-year-old President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. But beyond sucking oxygen out of the 24/7 news cycle, the articles of impeachment crafted by the House accuses Trump of things he didn’t do. Written by Reps. David Cicilloine (R-RI.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Jamie Raiskin (D-Md.) and Jerold Nadler (D-.N.Y.), the document accuses Trump of “inciting an insurrection.” Like the last impeachment articles, the latest one has even less validity.
House Democrats accuse Trump of fomenting revolution in a speech to about 1 million followers before the House and Senate met in joint session tallied the Electoral College votes where Biden beat Trump [306-232]. House Democrats have access to the YouTube video of Trump’s speech in which he complained about the Nov. 3 election stolen from him by corrupt Democrat election officials. Trump told his audience that he won the election by a “landslide,” not once mentioning in the hour-long speech that anyone in the audience should storm the Capitol to “take the country back” or deface government property. Yet if you read the Democrats’ latest articles of impeachment it accuses Trump of on “inciting a seditious mob,” when only a tiny fraction of his audience stormed the Capitol committing a variety of petty crimes. Talk about seditious mobs, what happened over the 2020 summer?
No Democrats objected to the hoards of radicals, rioting, looting, burning, defacing government property over the summer all in the name of peaceful protests. Republicans in the House didn’t fashion articles of impeachment against Biden and Vice-president elect Kamala Harris over the summer for saying they “understood” the frustration of race-rioters angry by a string of officer-involved shootings against African Americans. Neither Biden nor Harris condemned the rioters while they occupied and burned down American cities, instead saying they “empathized” with the black community’s frustration. Well, now the House plans to impeach Trump for what? Delivering a speech complaining about the election. Is it really spreading falsehoods that some 50% of the U.S. population believes that massive voter irregularities took place, sending millions of universal mail-in ballots to voters.
House Democrats said in their impeachment articles that Trump tried to “interfere with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential Election..” Did Joe and Kamala get articles of impeachment for disrupting the “solemn” rights of ordinary citizens to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” because they obliquely lent support to race-riots around the country. If a few hundred rioters on Jan. 6 invaded the Capitol, engaged in malicious mischief, how can the House hold Trump accountable? Democrats can pile on Trump all they want but it doesn’t mean it’s not wasting precious time and energy in the House and Senate. “In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government,” read the hysterically crafted article. Where can the House prove that Trump committed any crimes?
Trump held a rally to protest the results of the election. He and maybe 75 million U.S. voters think there was something fishy that went on in the 2020 election. Does anyone that questions the election results deserve prosecution, tossed into jail, for not going along with Democrats that backed Biden and Harris? “He [Trump] threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled the coequal branches of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,” read the article, sounding like it was written in a high school government class. Trump did nothing other than complain to a large crowd about the election results. If a small fraction of the crowd went over the deep end, stormed the Capitol, vandalized and defaced government property, what’s Trump got to do with it?
When you read the House’s wording for its new articles of impeachment it’s so incompetently written, so haphazardly thrown together, so disgraceful it mirrors the mob mentality by Democrats on Capitol Hill. There’s no logic or facts in the articles, only the inflamed passions of lawmakers looking to retaliate against Trump in any way possible. “Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office.” House impeachment authors have confused the acts of some criminals with Trump delivering a speech. Last time anyone checked, Trump still has First Amendment rights. Donald J. Trump didn’t break-and-enter into the Capitol, deface government property or tell anyone else to do it. Biden and Harris had no control over rioters in the summer of 2020. Nor did Trump have any control of criminals on Jan. 6.
