How To Punish Trump For Sedition Even If Impeachment Fails February 01 | 2021
Trying to persuade Republican senators to convict former President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial is like trying to sell tickets for a trip on the Titanic after it sank. There is no more Titanic, and you wouldn t want to be on it anyway. They can t remove Trump from office now, and they wouldn t if they could.
Even Republican senators who are still suffering panic attacks about the Capitol violence must wonder if there is any point to impeaching the president who lit a fire under the mob.
Why vote to evict a president who is already gone? Why spend precious time debating the misdeeds of someone whom the American people have disowned? Why give Trump more time and attention?
Nikki Haley Burned Crispy For Urging Senate To âGive Trump A Breakâ
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
Former President Donald Trump s former Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is being strongly criticized after telling Fox News, I don t even think there s a basis for impeachment. Trump incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths, including the killing of a police officer. At least 134 law enforcement officers were assaulted during the attempted coup. And a majority of voters, 52 percent, blame Trump for the attack.
But according to Haley, Trump deserves a break
, and those who support conviction in his Senate trial should instead just move on.
Reprinted with permission from ProPublica
Late at night on Jan. 5, the day before President Donald Trump was scheduled to deliver a defiant speech before thousands of his most dedicated supporters, his former adviser Steve Bannon was podcasting from his studio near Capitol Hill. He had been o.
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch is reportedly "disgusted" by President Donald Trump s failed handling of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. He and his son Lachlan Murdoch, who currently oversees the network, are also partly responsible for it.
Many of our institutions election procedures, courts, the military, state legislatures, governors, the House of Representatives and Senate have adhered to their Constitutional duties, despite unprecedented pressure from the president, but it has been a close call.
In a recent poll, 74 percent of Americans (76 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of Republicans, and 70 percent of independents) agreed that democracy is under threat. Who can blame them?
That said, it matters how many people act on the “impressions” into which they have been led and whether impressions that appear to have hardened into convictions prove to be “transient.”
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There are some reasons for cautious optimism. In that same poll, for example, 80 percent of Americans maintained that the people who trashed the halls of Congress were undermining democracy; 91 percent want them to be held accountable for their actions.