Proving that there’s no love lost between Democrats in the House of Representative and 74-year-old President Donald Trump, the House Voted 232-197, with 10 Republicans joining the majority, to impeach the president for a second time. One the first impeachment vote Dec. 18, 2017, the house voted 230-197 on abuse of power and 230-198 on obstruction of Congress, both failed in the U.S. Senate Feb. 5, 2020. Today’s impeachment drew a few more Republicans, ten to be exact, agreeing with Democrats that Trump incited a Jan. 6 audience of nearly one million to storm the Capitol and deface government property. Democrats and Republicans voting today to impeach Trump insist he incited a riot but they have no proof of that. What the House did today was trade one mob for another, impeaching Trump without a shred of evidence that he engaged in “incitement of insurrection”
Mob rule happens in many places, whether in the streets or in what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calls the “temple of democracy,” the U.S. Congress. But mob rule has just happened with Democrats and 10 Republicans taking out their rage on Trump. If any member of Congress listened or watched Trump Jan. 6 speech, he asked the audience to protest or demonstrate peacefully. He never participated in any organized effort to storm Congress or commit any crimes. If a small fraction of his audience broke the law, how can the House try-and-convict Trump of high-crimes-and-misdemeanors when he did nothing other that exercise in First Amendment right to speak to his followers? Congress today showed that mob rule operates in Congress as much as in the streets. Trump was impeached for delivering a peaceful speech Jan. 6 before Congress certified the Electoral College vote.
There was no attempt by Trump to disrupt the lawful activities of a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote or interfere with Congress duly mandated power to conduct the peoples’ business. Denouncing Trump today on the House floor, House members took all the rage out on Trump for a regrettable incident, not incited by Trump but by as small fraction of his audience that chose to break the law, not with Trump’s blessings but with his message to demonstrate peacefully. Democrats cite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as backing an impeachment trial in the Senate sometime after 78-year-old President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. If you listen to the anti-Trump media, you’d think McConnell was “fed up with Trump,” ready to convict him. Nothing could be more twisted . McConnell supports a trial where the House mob would not prevail.
When reported by the media, you’d think that McConnell was ready to vote to convict Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” If you listen to McConnell’s words carefully, he’s ready to weigh all the evidence and vote accordingly. Today’s mob scene in the House voting a new article of impeachment was every bit the irrational mob seen breaking-and-entering into Congress Jan. 6. Members of the House all have the video of Trump’s speech, knowing with 100% certainty that he never told his audience to storm the Capitol or commit any crimes. “[W]hile the press had been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate,” McConnell wrote, dispelling the distorted media reports that McConnell had taken Democrats’ side against Trump, agreeing the impeachment was appropriate.
It’s not fashionable to defend Trump’s constitutional rights against the angry mob of Democrats voting to impeach him for a second time. You’d think that Democrats want to weigh evidence, not rush to judgment against Trump with extreme prejudice. Listening to the arguments today, Democrats cite Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), who stated unequivocally that Trump was 100% at fault for inciting a riot. Cheney has her own vendetta with Trump going back his criticism of her 79-year-old heart transplant father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. Trump blasted former President George W. Bush and Cheney for starting the Iraq War, costing the Treasury $5 trillion and 4,705 U.S. lives. Cheney knows that Trump never told his audience to break the law, nor did he participate in any planning of the Jan. 6 Capitol mob scene. Yet Cheney and Democrats are convinced Trump is responsible for “incitement of insurrection.”
Calling the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot or mob scene an “insurrection,” Democrats have jammed a square peg in a round hole to torture logic, trying to make a garden variety riot to overthrow the government of the United States. No one storming the Capitol came with guns-ablazing trying to overthrow the U.S. government. Talk of an organized coup d’etat is so preposterous, so outrageous, so off-the-wall, thet no one can possibly take it seriously with mass hysteria. Taking a few pipe bombs [that never exploded], a couple of Molotov Cocktails and zip-ties are not an “insurrection,” as claimed in the House impeachment article. House members didn’t just rush to judgment to vote a new impeachment article against Trump, they demonstrated their own mob scene making up facts and stretching truth to the breaking point. Today’s impeachment vote was an undeniable abuse of Article 1 power.
