What do The GOP Want? The Capital was Ransacked and Someone was to Hang?
What do the Republican party want? Power!!
They (GOP) do not care how they get it done on that issue,
issues of wether is a revolutionary point of view (Donald) or a revolutionary view (Donald's backers). At the moment the party of putting a lot of law breakers in jail for a long time, pot and other drug users jailed for ever or people that they consider like non american because they want to make peace with some of our enemies but wont back our friends even if they commit murder on their or neighbors population, But you can criticize murder if they are your friends. You give them arms so they feel more secure and kill less. You add the name of the countries, more than one and all in the middle east.
Donald was a hell sent and they ( Senators) already most've had dealings with this entity because they had no problem working with a psychopath president which they would have never accept if they were of other party. What ever this man did it had to be ok wether it was not working at all as nothing except Gulf and getting the news from Fox, that was ok. He need to relax his derrier and refill his knowledge with the stuff a non serious news outfit can give him. Even at all time of hours of the day and particularly night and very early morning Donald was on th phone (non secure)getting the downloads from someone at Fox. That was ok for the Reublican party. Still is.
Do you remember when Clinton met his DOJ head at an arplane at the airport when they were both going to different places? I never believed Clinton's story because he has been to known to lie but he could have been on the phone with her and it would have been better if the idea was not to have people know about or talk about it.
But how about Trump bringing his DOJ to the white house IN AN OPENLY and ORDER HIM WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO BREAK THE LAW. I never heard a single peep about any republican.
Because that's the way the fight is fought for them and politics is the same game you play when you have no decency or do things not for your country which is more than your district or state but to stay working in Washington with the power it gives you.. (Adam Gonzalez)
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| Look he is obeying the law the republicans said, he is waiting a face mask! |
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| In Iran they hang them too and the GOP gets upset, how about hanging our government elected by the American People if they are against Donald? Why not get more upset and make the people responsible for deaths including law enforcement, eye gashed out on officer and another had so many inside injuries he died a few days latter, including the one that TOLD them to go and take over?? |
The impeachment trial for former President Trump kicked off in the Senate on Tuesday, beginning with debate over the constitutionality of the House prosecuting a president who has already left office.
The latest: Trump lawyer David Schoen is up next to give counter arguments to the Democrats' opening speech, and he charged the trial is unconstitutional, saying it is "as wrong as wrong can be."
Highlights:
- The Senate updated its organizing resolution to have the chamber convene every day until a verdict is rendered, after Trump lawyer David Schoen withdrew a request to break for the Jewish Sabbath.
- 11 Republican senators voted against the resolution — Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mike Lee (Utah), Roger Marshall (Ka.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Rick Scott (Fla.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.).
- Lead impeachment manager Raskin played a video montage of Trump speaking at the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally, followed by footage of the violent mobs ransacking the Capitol. Some of the rioters were heard chanting, ""We are listening to Trump, your boss!"
- Raskin cited some of "the nation's most prominent conservative legal scholars," including former 10th Circuit Judge Michael McConnell, Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calebresi, Washington lawyer Charles Cooper and hundreds of others who have said it is constitutional to impeach and try an official after they've left office.
- Raskin (D-Md.) also listed examples of Constitutional framers discussing the standard of impeachment, and how it was "inconceivable" that it could cease to apply during a president's last days in office. "President Trump may not know a lot about the framers. But they knew a lot about him," Raskin declared, pointing to their focus on "presidential corruption aimed at elections."
- House impeachment manager Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), after running through a list of historical examples supporting the constitutionality of impeaching an official after they've left office, concluded, "Presidents can’t inflame insurrection in their final weeks and then walk away like nothing happened. And yet that is the rule that President Trump asks you to adopt."
- Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who lost his son to suicide just days before Jan. 6, concluded the Democrats' arguments with an emotional appeal as he detailed his family's experience at the Capitol during the insurrection.
- Trump's lead counsel Bruce Castor opened his arguments at 3 p.m. with praise for lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin's (D-Md.) "outstanding presentation," adding that no member of the Trump team will voice anything but condemnation of the rioters on Jan. 6.
- Castor, in a meandering opening speech, argued Democrats want to convict Trump because they fear he’ll run again in 2024. Toward the end of his speech, he conceded: “We changed what we were going to do on account that we thought that the House managers' presentation was well done."
The big picture: Trump will almost certainly be acquitted, absent any late and groundbreaking evidence against him. Instead, both sides will be playing to a jury outside the Capitol — the court of public opinion.
- Both Democrats and Republicans want to wrap the trial up quickly. Republicans don't want to spend any more time focusing on Donald Trump, and Democrats are eager to reframe the narrative around Biden's agenda and move forward with confirming his nominees.
- As required by Senate rules, the trial will become the chamber's main focus over the next few days. All other activity will be forced to take a back seat.
On the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Biden is continuing to distance himself from the trial. Today he will meet with business leaders about his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal.
What to watch: The Senate will be given four hours on Tuesday to debate whether the trial is constitutional. The chamber will then vote via simple majority to proceed.
- On Wednesday, House impeachment managers will begin making their case that Trump instigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
- Trump’s defense team, which consists of David Schoen, Bruce Castor, Michael van der Veen and Julieanne Bateman, will follow with their own presentation.
- Both sides get 16 hours — over two days — to make their respective case. Neither is expected to use all of their allotted time.
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