Jerry Summers: Blount - Schoolfield - Trump Saturday, February 13, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
Jerry Summers What do the above-mentioned powerful individuals have in common? William Blount (1749-1800) was a signer of the United States Constitution, originally from North Carolina and served as the only governor of the Southwest Territory. He would eventually be elected as one of Tennessee’s initial United States Senators in 1796. He also was a land spectator and obtained millions of acres in Tennessee and the West. Blount was responsible for the creation of the City of Knoxville, named after United States Secretary of War Henry Knox, and he built a mansion in that community that still stands as a historical structure.
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.
Watching videotapes of a mob storming the U.S. Capitol made Sen. Murkowski "angry," "disturbed" and "sad," she told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.