With the rug pulled out from underneath the fake news networks, especially CNN and MSNBC, the discussion now is about how seven Republicans voted to convict Trump, as if it matters. To the fake news networks face-saving is everything, hoping they can keep their anti-Trump audience interested in bereft programming, now focused on sour grapes, some kind of consolation prize from the short impeachment trial ending in failure. House Democrats wanted, beyond anything else, to disqualify Trump for running for public office, something that they couldn’t do. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed for Trump’s second trial precisely to prevent him from running for office again. Thank “haste makes waste,” fashioning a single all-inclusive impeachment article “incitement of insurrection” that couldn’t stand legal scrutiny.
No one forced Democrats to charge Trump with “incitement of insurrection,” knowing that Democrats led by 58-year-old House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) couldn’t make their case to a jury of largely rational senators. Senators weren’t willing to listen the CNN and MSNBC’s predigested talking points and video used to make the case against Trump. How deplorable that nine house managers couldn’t convince enough Republicans to convict the former president. After Trump’s acquittal, fake news spends all its time talking about the seven Republicans that voted to convict, most of whom aren’t running for reelection in 2020. Had a more sober, less zealous, Democrat Party fashioned more feasible impeachment articles the bar wouldn’t have been so high to convince GOP senators. Charging Trump with (1) breaching his oath, (2) dereliction of duty or (3) interfering with a transfer of power, might have worked.
All the talk on fake news focuses on what other possible legal challenges Trump faces, including his real estate business, or, more recently, the 58-year-old D.C. attorney general Karl Racine considering charging him with incitement of riot. If Racine looks at his pocket Constitution he’ll find a double jeopardy clause, preventing trial on the same or similar charges, even though the impeachment proceeding was not technically a court. All the sour grapes, leaving Democrats, especially the fake news, with a new vacuum without Trump serving up the daily diet, like late-night talks shows, of anti-Trump pablum, all to feed their audience daily nonsense. What happened to House Democrats was 100% predictable that their Democrat and media talking points wouldn’t hold up in the Senate, unlike on their preach-to-the-choir networks. Do Democrats really think Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) agrees with them?
President Joe Biden, 78, jumped into the fray, opining about Trump’s Feb. 13 acquittal. “The substance of the charge is “not in doubt,” Biden said, like the fake news, trying to find a silver lining in losing their case. Getting a few wayward Republicans, like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.), a known Trump-hater, to vote to convict is hardly booby prize for Pelosi and Raskin, who must now live their second impeachment trial failure with Trump. Biden tried to sound a conciliatory tone, asking for common ground. “It’s a task we must undertake together. As the United States of America,” Biden said, paraphrasing his old boss, former President’s old call for unity. Democrats want to spin their failure in the Senate as Republican senators having no spine to go against Trump. Raskin, the lead House manager, knows that he failed to present a coherent case against Trump for “incitement of insurrection.”
Rakin looked shell-shocked, dazed-and-confused, after Trump’s lead defense attorney 59-year-old Bruce Castor destroyed his case in his closing argument. Raskin reserved time to respond in an incoherent rambling about his daughter, Hanna, making no sense to anyone, knowing he had just lost the impeachment case on the merits. Castor, who was ridiculed for his opening argument, delivered the knockout punch to Raskin, destroying Democrats’ legal case. Raskin convinced House Democrats and everyone at CNN and MSNBC that he closed the deal. But when Castor talked about Democrats witch hunt against Trump from the first day he took office, it exposed the complete hypocrisy and contradictions in Democrats’ case. Raskin told Senators not to worry about the Constitution or the rule of law, because House managers had different rules of law applying in an impeachment trial.
Watching CNN and MSNBC and other anti-Trump networks make nothing but excuses why they lost their case was astonishing. You’d think they’d move on to talk about real news but, no, Trump’s always in the headlines, showing without their foil, the ratings drop like a rock. What went wrong with Democrats impeachment trial is what Trump’s defense attorneys said, the trial was about “V” for vendetta, not based on the Constitution. Raskin said it best rambling in his final remarks, the case against the president is not about Trump, it’s about all of us., meaning, it’s about punishing the former president, not about the law. “I don’t think Donald Trump is going to disappear from anyone’s lips any day soon . . . the plan, for now, is to try to ignore the former president,” said former Democratic Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Don’t think CNN and MSNBC agree.
