Going full steam ahead with her new impeachment article against 74-year-old former President Donald Trump, 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hopes to get a conviction this time around, forever vitiating Trump’s four years in office. From the day he took his oath Jan. 20, 2017, Trump was tortured by Democrats and the press, never accepting his victory of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Before Trump took his oath, the FBI under 60-year-old former FBI Director James Comey was well into his counterintelligence investigation of Trump, accusing the billionaire New York real estate tycoon and reality TV star of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election. Comey had no probable cause other than Hillary’s paid opposition research, making wild, outlandish accusations against an American icon of success and wealth. Hillary’s “Steele Dossier” fingered Trump as a Russian asset.
When you consider what the Obama administration did to Trump, authorizing the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA] to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign and his presidency, it’s a horrifying abuse of the national security apparatus to persecute a major party nominee and president. Not since former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was investigating everyone under the sun for being a crypto-communists, has any U.S. citizen endured the years of fake investigations. Democrats and media joined in on the fun, fabricating one story after another all with anonymous sourcing tying Trump to the Kremlin. How ironic that Pelosi sees impeaching Trump as her patriotic duty rather than issuing a Congressional apology for wasting U.S. tax dollars on what Trump has called the ‘biggest witch hunt in U.S. history.” Democrats and the media went wild when Trump fired Comey June 9, 2017.
Yet here we go again with Pelosi hoping she can make outrageous accusations against the former president and hope that it sticks, because the world saw the horrendous riot and mob scene at the Capitol when a few hundred of Trump’s one million member crowd went ballistic and stormed the Capitol. Trump asked his audience “to fight like hell,” but only figuratively, not accepting the results of the Nov. 3 election. Trump told his one million-member crowd Jan. 6 that the Nov. 3, 2020 election was rigged, costing him a second term. Apart from telling his followers to march on the Capitol, Trump never told anyone in the massive audience to break the law, certainly not storm the Capitol and deface government property. Yet Pelosi charged Trump in her impeachment article with “incitement of inssurection,” something often repeated in the press and in partisan Democrat circles.
All that happened Jan. 6 was that a lack of crowd control opened to doors for the unhinged element that went over the deep end, rushing the Capitol, trespassing and vandalizing government property. If you listen to Democrats and the media, it’s an open-and-shut case of Trump inciting an insurrection. But to have an insurrection, the obsolete term from the Constitution for today’s insurgency, there would have to be a heavily armed and well-planned attempted coup d’etat. Despite Democrats and the media repeating the term insurrection, the Jan. 6 riot and mob scene was not a revolt or rebellion but a selfie-taking publicity stunt. While it’s true that Capitol and D.C. law enforcement found a few pipe bombs and Molotov Cocktails, it’s also true that none were used to force their way into the Capitol. Had Capitol or D.C. police set a proper cordon around the Capitol, the riot would not have happened..
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) want to convict Trump to prevent him from ever running for president again. When you consider Trump’s age, but more importantly, the disruptive four years of his presidency, he has a snowball’s chance in hell of every running again. When you look the impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection,” it makes zero sense. You can’t have an insurrection with the perpetrators snapping selfies, not using automatic weapons to seize the Capitol and take hostages. “There will be a trial,” Schumer said. It will be a full trial, it will be a fair trial,” referring back to the last impeachment trial in Jan. 16 to Feb. 5, 2020, ending in acquittal. Pelosi and Schumer think the ugly optics of the Capitol siege will get Trump convicted. But any first year law student could defend Trump against the outrageous charge of “incitement of insurrection.”
Democrats and the media like to report that former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) leans toward convicting Trump. McConnell said Trump incited the crowd but didn’t commit to voting one way or another. All McConnell said was he wants Senators to hear the evidence and vote their conscience. Atty. Butch Bowers, who defended Gov. Nikki Haley and Gov. Mark Sanford looks to lead Trump’s legal team, with emeritus Harvard Constitutional Law professor Alan Dershowitz joining in to discus Constitution issues. Dershowitz thinks the Constitution is clear that Trump cannot be tried for impeachment when he’s no longer president. Showing her extreme prejudice, Pelosi said trump doesn’t deserve a “get out of jail card,” meaning a pass on a second impeachment. Dershowitz made it clear that Trump never told anyone to storm the Capitol and vandalize government property.
