{"id":1051,"date":"2021-02-13T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2021-02-13T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T22:38:59","slug":"day-five-disgrace-and-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Day Five — Disgrace and Acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day Five<\/b><\/p>\n

Disgrace and Acquittal<\/b><\/p>\n

February 13th<\/sup> 2021<\/i><\/p>\n

In many ways, today turned out to be the wildest day of Trump\u2019s impeachment trial. Yes, he was acquitted, with only 57 Senators voting that he was guilty of sedition. Seven Republicans declared his guilt. So he was simultaneously acquitted and humiliated, escaping conviction on a technicality.<\/p>\n

The day started with the stunning news that the Senate had voted to permit witnesses. It would have been a disaster for Republicans many of whom want to see Trump gone but who can\u2019t work up the courage to do that themselves. Many of them wanted impeachment to go away, but a lot of them want Trump to go away.<\/p>\n

Team Trump immediately started issuing threats, promising that things would get real ugly real fast. Who knows? Maybe their client would whip up a violent armed mob to attack the Capitol to prevent witnesses from testifying. Joni Ernst shouted that the Senate would not consider anything Biden wanted\u2014not COVID relief, not minimum wage, not the remaining cabinet nominations\u2014until the trial ended, and promised witnesses would tie everything up for months.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler said McCarthy told her of a conversation: \u201cHe said to the President, \u2018You\u2019ve got to hold them. You need to get on TV right now, you need to get on Twitter, you need to call these people off.\u2019 And he said, the President said, \u2018Kevin, they\u2019re not my people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy told Trump: \u201cYes they are, they just came through my windows and my staff is running for cover. Yeah, they\u2019re your people. Call them off,\u201d Herrera Beutler said. On Friday she tweeted, \u201cThat\u2019s when, according to McCarthy, the president said: \u2018Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.\u201d Truly an incendiary account. Trump supporters didn\u2019t want anything like that in the public record, right?<\/p>\n

But then something odd happened; the Senate ruled that the accounts of the conversation between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump could be stipulated; in other words, admitted as evidence without objection. The phone call is utterly damning, with McCarthy shouting to Trump to call off his mob (Remember, Trump\u2019s brownshirts were busting the windows to McCarthy\u2019s office at the time). Further, it revealed a depraved indifference on Trump\u2019s part toward his own vice president, Mike Pence. A few minutes later, Tommy Tuberville told Trump that Pence had been hustled away, but was still in danger. Trump followed the conversation with instructions to the mob via tweet to attack Pence for his lack of courage. It\u2019s widely reported that the Pence Secret Service were in constant contact with Trump\u2019s Secret Service, and so Trump had to know Pence was in danger, along with his staff, family, and even the backup nuclear football Pence\u2019s Secret Service carried.<\/p>\n

Trump did not call off his mob. He did not send in the National Guard. It was Pence who called the guard, and it was five hours later that Trump finally told his followers to go home. And five days before he bothered calling Pence to see if he was ok.<\/p>\n

After that, the Dems suddenly reversed their field on calling witnesses, and today saw the end of the trial, and the 57-43 vote that disgraced but did not convict Trump.<\/p>\n

Why did this happen? Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said he voted to acquit Donald Trump because he thought it was unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a president who had already left office. That\u2019s nonsensical on the face of it, but it reveals McConnell\u2019s thinking\u2014he wants Trump gone. He just doesn\u2019t want the Senate to do it and thus widen the existing civil war within the GOP. At least 300,000 voters have fled the party since election day, and there is a serious movement afoot to create a new party that isn\u2019t overwhelmed by Nazis and conspiracy freaks.<\/p>\n

To that end, he was willing to disgrace Trump and make criminal charges against him much easier?<\/p>\n

Anyone remember Ollie North? Betrayed America through his role in Iran\/Contra, got off on a technicality, and spent the rest of his wastrel life gloating at us? He got off because a court ruled that testimony against him in Congressional hearings could not be entered as evidence in criminal proceedings as being prejudicial and a violation of double indemnity. He walked because of the witnesses in Congress.<\/p>\n

There may well be hundreds of witnesses who are willing or can be subpoenaed in a criminal trial of Trump for dereliction of duty and possibly sedition. And criminal trials are coming. Count on it.<\/p>\n

So Senate Republicans punted, but civilian courts are made of sterner stuff.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, this was the most bipartisan impeachment vote in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n

Trump may be acquitted. But he has also been disgraced like no other President in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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