Perspective by Dan O’Donnell
For more than a month now, Democrats and their allies in the media have been in a state of high dudgeon over the riot at the U.S. Capitol, which they have hysterically labeled the gravest threat to the republic since at least 9/11 and perhaps Pearl Harbor.
In reality, their response to it the utterly unconstitutional Senate trial of a private citizen is a far greater threat to the long-term stability of American democracy than some jackass in Viking horns.
The United States Senate has as much constitutional or legal authority to try Donald Trump this week as it does Kim Kardashian. While the public spectacle of such a show trial might be tantalizing revenge porn for liberals desperate for one last shot at the former President, it sets a dangerous, untenable precedent.
Trump impeachment: Chilling footage shows how close rioters got to senators
Trump impeachment: Chilling footage shows how close rioters got to senators Thu, 11 Feb 2021, 12:26PM
Donald Trump s impeachment trial has entered its second day with prosecutors arguing that Trump was no innocent bystander but rather the inciter-in-chief of the deadly attack at the US Capitol that aimed to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.
House Democrats methodically presented evidence from the former president himself hundreds of Trump tweets and comments that culminated in his January 6 rally cry to go the Capitol and fight like hell to overturn his defeat.
When two white men went on trial in Mississippi in 1955 for murdering Emmett Till, a Black teenager, the jury swiftly acquitted them despite indisputable e