Senate Republicans voted to 55-45 to set aside a call by 58-year-old Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to declare the impeachment trial of 74-year-old former President Donald Trump unconstitutional, the message was unmistakable that Democrats do not have the votes to convict Trump. Trump’s impeachment trial is currently scheduled for Feb. 8 on a single count of “incitement of insurrection,” something so poorly written, so against all common sense, so defying reality that only the most partisan Senators could vote to convict Trump. At his last impeachment Trial Jan. 16 – Feb. 5, only one Republican Senator, 73-year-old Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.) voted to convict Trump on one of two impeachment articles on “abuse of power.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who’s hatred of Trump knows no limits, will find herself in the same boat, watching Trump acquitted again.
To Democrats sworn to serve a fair jurors, they’re all the same page, just like they were last time around. All Democrats are united in wanting to toss Trump out of office. They accomplished their goal Nov. 3, 2020 when 78-year-old President Joe Biden defeated Trump Nov. 3, 2020 by about 5 million popular votes or 306 – 235 in the Electoral College. When Trump spoke to his one million-strong audience Jan. 6 before the Capitol riot, he asked his audience to protest peacefully. At no time did Trump tell his audience to storm the Capitol and vandalized government property. When you consider that only 200 breached the interior of the Capitol with roughly 2,000 more lingering outside, there’s just no evidence that Trump was guilty of “incitement of insurrection.” No one in the unruly mob used weapons to shoot up the Capitol or take anyone hostage.
Pelosi and newly minted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) don’t care whether Trump second impeachment is unconstitutional. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, 66, announced he will not preside over the second impeachment trial because Trump is no longer president. Paul wanted Senators to vote on the constitutionality of impeaching a past president. If Democrat go ahead with the new precedent for U.S. president, there’s nothing to stop Republicans from deciding to impeach past Democrat presidents, like former President Barack Obama. U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) is currently completing an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of Trump. If Durham finds that former President Obama and President Joe Biden ordered an illegal spying operation against Trump, should Republicans call for Barack and Joe’s impeachments?
Democrats cite case law from 1876 that Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached after he her left office. Well, Belknap wasn’t a president, a completely different set of circumstances, with Belknap accused of profiting off the Civil War for eight years. Trump was accused by Democrats of violating the Constitution’s Emolument Clause, profiting off his presidency with his resort business. When the Supreme Court tossed out its Emoluments cases against Trump yesterday, Democrats groaned because they lost another potential impeachable offense. When you consider that a group of psychiatrists led by Yale University Dr. Bandy X. Lee diagnosed Trump with “malignant narcissism” rendering him unfit for office, Democrats tried to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Pelosi and her wild band of Trump-haters practically stood on their heads to get Trump out of office. But the Nov. 3, 2020 election was not enough, Democrats want to pile on.
No president in U.S. history was subjected to an illegal spying operation using the vast resources of the U.S. law enforcement and intel communities to get rid of Trump. Yet Pelosi thinks Trump needs another impeachment for “incitement of insurrection.” Whatever misanthropes, misfits and losers stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 and vandalized government property, they came armed with cell phones to take selfies while they attempted to overthrow the U.S. government. Pelosi’s new impeachment article was laughable, neither meeting definitions of incitement nor insurrection. “If more than 34 Republicans vote against the constitutionality of the proceeding, the whole thing’s dead on arrival,” said Sen. Ron Paul. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx.) wondered if Republicans “could we go back and try president Obama?” Pelosi only wants to drag Trump through the mud regardless of the outcome.
Pelosi and Schumer think the country can’t move on unless they drag Trump through the mud one last time. When they get done demonizing Trump, what will they do with all their ire? Apparently the press hinted at going after Biden’s modest stainless steel Rolex watch. To a reporter that doesn’t carry a watch or buys one at Wallgreens, it looks extravagant to wear anything of value. When you look at Pelosi’s new charade impeachment proceeding, Republicans see her palpable hatred of Trump. Schumer parroted Pelosi’s line about failing to impeach Trump would give Trump a “get out of jail card.” Schumer admitted Trump’s second impeachment was not about whether or not he committed high crimes and misdemeanors, it’s about preventing Trump from holding elective office again. When the latest impeachment charade fails, what do Democrats do with all that hate?
