Impeachment Trial

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US Senate ACQUITS Trump, ex-president cleared of incitement charges

The US Senate has failed to gather enough votes to convict former President Donald Trump, after a Democrat-led impeachment trial. Trump had been accused of "incitement of insurrection" after his supporters rioted on Capitol Hill.

Trump for POTUS 2024???

The GOP won't nominate him in 2024.

 

[Frankfooter]

Trump still has lawsuits to deal with in NY state. He's far from out of the woods.

Yup, for the next year or so I expect the only time his name is in the press it'll be due to something in the courts.

 

[Prentice]

His only justification was that the article of impeachment was delivered after trump was no longer president, yet HE WAS THE ONE WHO KEPT SENATE CLOSED SO THAT THE ARTICLE COULD NOT BE DELIVERED ON TIME.

And even after the Senate voted and agreed the article of impeachment was constitutional

 

[Valcazar]

Most shameful of all was Moscow Mitch's 20 minute speech.

That was some impressively cynical bullshit.

 

[toguy5252]

I guess the GOP will try to run with the twice impeached, least popular POTUS again in 2024.
Good news for the dems.

And the GOP is no longer the law and order party, its the anti democracy party.

It is now officially the party of anti-democracy, misogyny, racism, homophobia In other words the party of deplorables.

 

[Danny1832]

GOP belongs to Trump and deservedly so. For decades, their leadership ran on fear, bigotry, and distrust of Govt. with FOX “news” cultivating the audience in the last +20 years. Despite how the GOP leaders feel, they know that ppl like Marjory Tailor and MyPilliow guy are the true face of their voter base, and it’d be suicide to openly revolt against Trump.

If Trump runs in 2024 and idiots at the DNC decide to run Kamal Harris, then he’s got a damn good chance of winning again. If it weren’t for Trump’s own stupidity he’d have won 2020. All this Mango Mussolini had to do was wear a GIANT mask on TV and tell ppl to social-distance without having to do anything substantive; after all that’s how Biden won.

 

[squeezer]

Mitch the BItch votes not guilty and then throws him completely under the bus and runs over the orange fat man over and over admitting he's as guilty as sin of inciting the riot. SMH

 

[Frankfooter]

WTF is Mitch playing at?

"The question is moot because former President Trump is constitutionally not eligible," McConnell said.

McConnell, however, hinted that Trump could still face legal repercussions.

"President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statue of limitations has run. ...Didn't get away with anything, yet," McConnell said.

 

[toguy5252]

Mitch the BItch votes not guilty and then throws him completely under the bus and runs over the orange fat man over and over admitting he's as guilty as sin of inciting the riot. SMH

He is making the Lincoln Project work much easier.

 

[Charlemagne]

 

[jcpro]

An idiotic statement of the month.

 

[kherg007]

GOP belongs to Trump and deservedly so. For decades, their leadership ran on fear, bigotry, and distrust of Govt. with FOX “news” cultivating the audience in the last +20 years. Despite how the GOP leaders feel, they know that ppl like Marjory Tailor and MyPilliow guy are the true face of their voter base, and it’d be suicide to openly revolt against Trump.

If Trump runs in 2024 and idiots at the DNC decide to run Kamal Harris, then he’s got a damn good chance of winning again. If it weren’t for Trump’s own stupidity he’d have won 2020. All this Mango Mussolini had to do was wear a GIANT mask on TV and tell ppl to social-distance without having to do anything substantive; after all that’s how Biden won.

I think this is right. I feared anyone but Biden - the most centrist - would have meant a trump win. Even if trump pretended the pandemic was serious he would have won as you note. Scary, but true. Thankfully a number of his voters have since disavowed their votes after the insurrection but damn...Even w a 7m vote majority Biden won electoral college by around 100k votes...

 

[Fun For All]

GOP belongs to Trump and deservedly so. For decades, their leadership ran on fear, bigotry, and distrust of Govt. with FOX “news” cultivating the audience in the last +20 years. Despite how the GOP leaders feel, they know that ppl like Marjory Tailor and MyPilliow guy are the true face of their voter base, and it’d be suicide to openly revolt against Trump.

If Trump runs in 2024 and idiots at the DNC decide to run Kamal Harris, then he’s got a damn good chance of winning again. If it weren’t for Trump’s own stupidity he’d have won 2020. All this Mango Mussolini had to do was wear a GIANT mask on TV and tell ppl to social-distance without having to do anything substantive; after all that’s how Biden won.

I wouldn't bank on that...the GOP has no chance in 2024 if they run Trump out there again...he lost Michigan by 150,000 and Penn by 80,000, those are states he has to win, he's not gonna be able to turn that around...2022 is not that far away, GOP has some internal issues to clear up.

 

[Frankfooter]

An idiotic statement of the month.

Because you don't support democracy?

 

[Frankfooter]

I think this is right. I feared anyone but Biden - the most centrist - would have meant a trump win. Even if trump pretended the pandemic was serious he would have won as you note. Scary, but true. Thankfully a number of his voters have since disavowed their votes after the insurrection but damn...Even w a 7m vote majority Biden won electoral college by around 100k votes...

True, but that was still 40% of the vote in a system that's just fucked up and over represents rural votes.
The demographics will only make that a bigger difference, while the GOP tries to up their attack on democracy a couple of notches to compensate.

Now that the idea that impeachment is the way to deal with the POTUS has been shown to be useless in a partisan country, maybe this will mean ending all pardons for former presidents for acts during their presidency. Maybe the way to deal with corrupt arsewipes like Trump really should be in the courts.

Progressives urge Biden pick for attorney general to prosecute Trump

A prominent progressive group on Saturday called on the Biden administration’s Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against former President Trump, just moments after Trump’s acquitt…

thehill.com

 

[Danny1832]

I wouldn't bank on that...the GOP has no chance in 2024 if they run Trump out there again...he lost Michigan by 150,000 and Penn by 80,000, those are states he has to win, he's not gonna be able to turn that around...2022 is not that far away, GOP has some internal issues to clear up.

I hear what you're saying but Michigan and Penn could swing Trump's way depending on how badly Biden & Friend's screw up. Not for nothing are they swing states and alot of people that voted Obama voted Trump. IRRC the polls had Biden handily winning Michigan by 5% but it endedup being under 3%. Michael Moore (despite all his conspiracy nut tendencies) was right in warning about the silent Trump vote.

 

[Fun For All]

I hear what you're saying but Michigan and Penn could swing Trump's way depending on how badly Biden & Friend's screw up. Not for nothing are they swing states and alot of people that voted Obama voted Trump. IRRC the polls had Biden handily winning Michigan by 5% but it endedup being under 3%. Michael Moore (despite all his conspiracy nut tendencies) was right in warning about the silent Trump vote.

I can’t imagine Biden fucking things up that much were they would want Trump back...no fucking way.

 

[shack]

An idiotic statement of the month.

They are cold hard statistics. Nothing to refute. Nothing idiotic.

Maybe you don't understand the math.

 

[jcpro]

They are cold hard statistics. Nothing to refute. Nothing idiotic.

Maybe you don't understand the math.

Maybe you don't understand how Senate works. Hint, 2 senators per state regardless of the population size. How's that for math? That's OK, the Hillary supporters to this day don't understand how the electoral college works, either.

 

[jcpro]

Trump Now Most Acquitted President In History

U.S.—President Donald Trump made history once again today after being acquitted in his second Senate impeachment trial. He is now the most acquitted president in American history.

babylonbee.com