Back to his turncoat ways, 73-year-old Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.) showed he’s a disgrace to the Republican Party, joining 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisting on impeaching 74-year-old President Donald Trump for the second time. No matter how much Pelosi, the Democrats and Romney want to ram a square peg into a round hole, Trump didn’t incite and insurrection as the media insists. Throughout his presidency, Trump found out the fake news makes up things, expecting all the sheep, like Romney, to go along, with the nonsense. No one with a rational brain thinks that the Jan. 6 riot and mob scene was an attempted coup d’etat or “incitement of insurrection” as Pelosi impeachment article reads. If Pelosi didn’t overreach, she might have convinced more GOP Senators that Trump “incited a riot.” No insurrection takes place with protestors taking cell phone selfies.
Romney says he wants accountability seeking to convict Trump of “incitement of insurrection,” something so misguided, so off-bases, so preposterous it’s hard to believe anyone can back such charges with a straight face. While Trump certainly stirred up his one million-sized crowd Jan 6, he never instructed anyone to storm the Capitol and deface government property. Yet Romney agrees with Pelosi that Trump must be held accountable—but for what? Delivering a speech that disagrees with Democrats and the press narrative that 78-year-old President Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election fair and square. “If we are going to have unity in our country, I think it’s important to recognize the need for accountability, for truth and justice,” Romney told Fox New Chris Wallace, today. Both Romney and Wallace have much in common, especially in their abiding hatred of Trump.
Romney wants “accountability, truth and justice,” just as long as it attacks his mortal enemy, former President Donald Trump. Romney called Trump a phony and a con artist in the 2016 campaign, culminating in voting to impeach Trump Feb. 5, 2020 on one count of “abuse of power.” How any Utah Republican can take Romney seriously is anyone’s guess? He’s now joined the House’s Trump-hater-in-Chief, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “It is pretty clear that over the last year there has been an effort to corrupt the election in the United States and it was not by President Biden, it was by President Trump,” Romney said. Romney makes wild statements that agree with Pelosi and Democrats. If anything corrupted the 2020 U.S. election, it was universal mail-in ballots where election officials all over the country sent millions of mail-in ballots to every registered voter in the country.
Romney hoped his presence on Fox News would rally other Republicans to back convicting Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” Romney, due to his hatred of Trump, joins Pelosi in eviscerating the U.S. Constitution, just like she impulsively tore up Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Speech Feb.5. Pelosi was frustrated because the Senate rejected her two impeachment articles, acquitting Trump the same day. “The fact is, the president of the United States committed an act of incitement of insurrection,” Pelosi said at the Capitol. “I don’t think it’s very unifying to say, ‘Let’s just forget it and move on,’” Pelosi said. But Pelosi conflates Trump’s Jan. 6 speech with the lawbreakers that stormed the Capitol and defaced government property. Trump never told anyone to break the law, exposing Pelosi and Romney’s fallacy. Unless they have evidence that Trump told supporters to break the law, they have no case.
Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee are starting to realize that they can’t be used by Pelosi who weaponized her Article 1 impeachment authority. Impeachment is designed in the Constitution to remove a president from office for committing, what the Framers’ called “high crimes and misdemeanors.” “Just because he’s gone now—thank God—you don’t say to a president, ‘Do whatever you want in the last months of your administration, you’re going to get a get out of jail card free,’” Pelosi said sarcastically. Pelosi doesn’t care about the Constitution or the rule of law, she want to retaliate against Trump purely for revenge. If Pelosi and Romney looked at the facts, they’d know that only a tiny fraction of Trump’s audience broke the law, storming the Capitol and defacing public property. Trump told his audience to protest peacefully and lawfully. How it that an “incitement of insurrection?”
Growing numbers of Republicans have woken up to what utter nonsense Pelosi’s latest impeachment article. You can’t engage in insurrection with cell phones: It requires automatic weapons. Harvard University emeritus Constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz echoed the view of the legal community that it’s unconstitutional to impeach a private citizen. Since Jan. 20 at 12 Noon, former President Trump became citizen Trump. Dershowitz said there’s no provision in Article 1 impeachment authority for using the section for impeaching a private citizen. “I think it’s counterproductive,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) told Fox New Chris Wallace, disagreeing with Romney. “We already have a flaming fire in this country and it’s taking a bunch of gasoline and pouring it one the fire,” Rubio said, asking all Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Pelosi’s call for conviction.
