The editors of the Washington Post call for Trump’s conviction:
Senators will bring disgrace upon their chamber if they fail to hold the former president accountable. No reasonable listener this week could fail to find him culpable for the Capitol assault. If the Senate fails to convict, Democrats should challenge Republicans’ constitutional dodge by introducing a censure resolution spelling out Mr. Trump’s responsibility for inciting an insurrection. Each senator should be obliged to go on the record to condemn or condone a president’s unprecedented assault on U.S. democracy.
I tend to agree with that but I also don’t believe that the House managers are proving their case on the single charge of impeachment—incitement.
Yesterday I watched as much as I could of the proceedings. I think that House managers are mismanaging their case and what they’re doing is actually counter-productive. The question they are not asking is whether reasonable people would have responded as those breaching the Capitol did. I think we can stipulate that Congressmen and senators were afraid and that those breaching the Capitol were disorderly.
IMO the House managers’ strategy reflects the actual problem that we face as a nation. The U. S. is a very large country—less populous only than China and India. Social media have created new conditions. In such a country there are bound to be a number of people who are, shall we say, far from hinged. Social media makes it easy for such people to find each other and plan equally unconscionable actions. In my view President Trump acted with reckless disregard in his statement preceding and during the breach. He should have been censured immediately.
But that wouldn’t have satisfied the objectives of the Democratic leadership which as far as I can tell is focused on battlespace preparation for the midterms and the 2024 presidential election.
I suppose I’d expect the Democrat prosecution to cherry pick lines from Trump’s speech, “Fight like hell”, but he also said more.
— President Trump, Jan. 6 speech in Washington
The one line from the president’s speech that wasn’t in the Democrats’ video is the line that’s most important, and that’s where the president said, “Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
That’s going to be up to the Republican’s, who by the way, are aware Democrats are calling to impeach other members of that party as well.
Did the incitement to insurrection occur before or after the Russian collusion? Why not convict Trump of treason? He could be hung on the steps of the Capital. Even better, he could be drawn & quartered, and his entrails could be left for the birds.
As @steve noted, You guys are such a bunch of pussies.
I think that the Democrats undermined their second impeachment with their first.
Hillary Clinton still claims that the 2016 election was stolen, and she urged candidate Biden to never concede. Is she an accomplice?
Nothing good will come of this nonsense, but some people need to learn the hard way. May your wishes be granted.
Burn, Baby, Burn
I think that the risks in what they’ve been doing is just beginning to dawn on some people. Should the Republicans get control of the House in 2022, one can only wonder whether they will seek to start impeaching Biden and (worst case) every living Democratic former president.