Speaking with 74-year-old former President Donald Trump after his Feb. 13 acquittal, 65-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Trump’s ready to “move on” to help the GOP win back the House and Senate in the 2022 Midterm elections. Graham faced withering criticism for backing Trump while Democrats and some Republicans threw Trump under the bus in his second impeachment trial. Graham reassured Trump that he would win acquittal won more time, this time over Democrats’ impeachment charge “incitement of insurrection.” Trump’s speeches never changed over the last five years yet Democrats contended that Trump incited an insurrection, when the FBI and other intel agencies showed that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene was planned well in advance of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech. Democrats insisted that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric caused the riot.
When you add up all the causes to the Jan. 6 riot, by far the biggest factor involved white nationalist groups fed up with Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other leftist groups rioting, looting, arson and anarchy, all of which condoned by Democrat politicians, many of whom sat in the House and Senate in judgment of Trump. Trump called for law-and-order while Democrat politicians refused to criticize left-wing groups rioting for months over last summer, bringing right wing groups to the Capitol to level the playing field. It really had little to do with Trump and everything to do with left-wing politicians’ hypocrisy and double standard tolerating leftist rioting as long as it’s over “social justice.” So when House Democrats fashioned their impeachment article, they bit off more than they could chew. House impeachment managers sounded like CNN and MSNBC’s left wing pundits prosecuting their case.
Democrats blasted Trump’s 57-43 acquittal, accusing Republicans of fearing Trump. But the real problem with House Democrats’ case was that it lacked legal merit, using hearsay and innuendo to prosecute their case against Trump. No president in U.S. history was more demonized by the press than Trump. Nonpartisan journalism was tossed to the wind while all major broadcast and print outlets worked in overdrive to win the Nov. 8, 2020 election. Democrats can’t fathom why Trump and his followers didn’t trust the election results, not accepting that never before in U.S. history had states used universal mail-in ballots. Trump looked like he won late on election night, only to watch his leads replaced by a decisive Biden victory. White House election consultant, Constitutional law professor John Eastman, who filed a brief for the state of Texas, said that mail-n ballots made it impossible to prove fraud.
Democrats and their friends in the press made it treason to question the Nov. 8, 2020 election results, reciting the mantra that it was a “free and fair election.” GOP election officials found it impossible to “prove” election fraud but there were tens-of-thousands, maybe millions, of unverified ballots, where signatures and dates could not be authenticated. Yet to Democrat election officials rushed to certify votes, there was nothing wrong with state officials moving the goal posts, changing the rules to accommodate the Covid-19 crisis. House impeachment managers railed against Trump for not conceding the election and accepting the results. Democrats got their way with 78-year-old Joe Biden now president. Trump heads off to an uncertain future, with CNN and MSNBC consuming programming with how House managers really won the trial, despite losing the final vote.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), lead House manager, showed cosmic sour grapes today, saying he won his case in the world of public opinion. Public opinion was always against Trump because of the media’s demonization. Raskin thought he had an open-and-shut case, saying repeatedly he proved his case. But what Raskin and House Democrats presented with no different that the anti-Trump media that blamed Trump for the “insurrection,” a concoction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisting that Trump’s supporters tried to overthrow the U.S. government. With hyperbole like that it didn’t take much for Trump’s legal team to vaporize House Democrats’ case. Raskin lost his case because he had no case against Trump, only, as he admitted, winning in the court of public opinion. Raskin lost because Trump neither incited a riot nor did his backers try to overthrow the U.S. government.
Graham hopes that Trump still has enough clout with GOP voters to get back the House and Senate in 2022. Judging by how the GOP picked up seats in the House, Republicans have a shot of taking back the House, maybe the Senate. All depends on whether or not election officials approve universal mail-in ballots again, all but assuring another victory for Democrats. With Democrats’ registration advantage over Republicans, high turn out favors Democrats. Democrats made a big deal over Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying yesterday in the Senate that Trump was “morally” and “practically” responsible for the Jan. 6 Capital Hill riot. McConnell said he voted to acquit Trump because he thought the trial was unconstitutional, not because Democrats didn’t prove their case. Graham said most Republicans disagree with McConnell on what caused the riot.
