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On Tuesday, January 26, Republican Senator Rand Paul made a motion on the Senate floor that Trump’s trial in February violates the US Constitution. 17 Republicans would need to vote to convict Trump on an impeachment charge, but only five Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in the Senate to reject the move. Suddenly, it is becoming clear to many that Trump s second impeachment trial will probably end in an acquittal, which brings one option to the fore censuring Trump.
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who was one of the five GOP lawmakers to say the trial was constitutional, said on January 26, I think it s pretty obvious from the vote today that it is extraordinarily unlikely that he will be convicted. Just do the math. On January 27, she said that it seems to me that there is some value in looking at an alternative to proceeding with the trial… I realize
Tue Jan 26, 2021 Democrats are so scared one of their all-time favorite boogeymen, former President Donald Trump, will run and humiliate them again they are considering banishing him from electoral politics forever through an obscure constitutional provision created in the aftermath of the Civil War to deal with Confederate leaders and soldiers. Disqualifying opposing candidates, in case you forgot, is part of the old Barack Obama playbook from his Illinois Senate days, and, call me crazy, but Donald Trump is no Jefferson Davis. Because leftist depravity is bottomless, it should come as no surprise that Democrats are fine with going full-on banana republic to “save” the country from the potential reemergence of a truly great, legitimate president who, unlike the phony who has (temporarily) succeeded him, loves America, and who spent his four years in office expertly outfoxing Democrats to the benefit of the American people.
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Desperate Democrats want to get medieval on Trump. Democrats are so scared one of their all-time favorite boogeymen, former President Donald Trump, will run and humiliate them again they are considering banishing him from electoral politics forever through an obscure constitutional provision created in the aftermath of the Civil War to deal with Confederate leaders and soldiers. Disqualifying opposing candidates, in case you forgot, is part of the old Barack Obama playbook from his Illinois Senate days, and, call me crazy, but Donald Trump is no Jefferson Davis. Because leftist depravity is bottomless, it should come as no surprise that Democrats are fine with going full-on banana republic to “save” the country from the potential reemergence of a truly great, legitimate president who, unlike the phony who has (temporarily) succeeded him, loves America, and who spent his four years in office expertly outfoxing Democrats to the benef