Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 5:33:00 P.M. EST
Trump Acquitted—Seven GOP Scum Vote to Convict
(C-NET) The Senate voted Saturday to acquit former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge of incitement of insurrection, bringing Trump’s second impeachment trial to a close. The vote came after a five-day proceeding in which arguments focused on whether Trump incited the attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, and whether it’s constitutional to conduct an impeachment trial of a former president who’s now a private citizen.
The acquittal, largely along party lines, was expected. Though the Senate is split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris a potential tie-breaking vote as president of the Senate, the impeachment trial required a two-thirds supermajority for a conviction, meaning 17 Republican senators would’ve had to break with Trump. In the end, the vote was 57-43 to convict, with all 48 Democrats, two independents and seven Republicans finding Trump guilty. That wasn’t enough.
A conviction was an unlikely outcome from the beginning. In a Jan. 25 vote led by Sen. Rand Paul on whether the impeachment trial of an ex-president is unconstitutional, just five Republicans voted in favor of a trial. The first day of the impeachment trial, earlier this week, saw a similar vote, during which six Republicans voted with Democrats to continue the proceeding.
On Saturday, the Republicans who voted alongside Democratic senators to convict Trump were Sens. Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey, Bill
Cassidy and Richard [insider trader] Burr.
GRA: When is the next impeachment of Trump scheduled—and for what high crime—taking a mulligan while playing golf in Florida?
--GRA
N.S.: The vote of the seven GOP scum was gratuitous. In a time when gestures had meaning, you did something because it was the right thing, consequences be damned. But this is a time when—as Scalia’s pillow would tell you—gestures and words have no meaning, unless they are the anti-meanings of a world turned inside out and upside down. Thus, the GOP 7, rather than taking a stand on behalf of principle, took a stand on behalf of evil.
Thus, let the names of the GOP 7 live in infamy:
Susan Collins
Mitt Romney
Lisa Murkowski
Ben Sasse
Pat Toomey
Bill Cassidy and
Richard [insider trader] Burr.
Note, too, that Collins and Murkowski were two of the three GOP senators who sabotaged what would have been the repeal of Obamacare.
The third member of that triumvirate, traitor John McCain, presently resides in the Hell Hilton.
Seven patriots need to primary the GOP 7.
1 comment:
I'm still not sure the legality of impeaching a President who is not President anymore.
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