Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"
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Twelve Republicans, while voting against conviction because Trump was no longer president, explicitly deplored his behavior or assigned him some blame for the attack. One of the 12, Sen. Rob Portman, said Trump had violated his oath of office. These 12 senators, combined with the 57 who voted to convict, formed a two-thirds majority to condemn the former president.
What about the others? There’s a hard core of about 15 Republicans who have reached for any excuse, denounced any criticism of Trump, or concocted smears to deflect the evidence against him. It’s a shameful nest of apologists. Here’s how they rationalized their votes:
1. The evidence is fake. House impeachment managers documented their case with hours of video, as well as written comments from Trump and the Capitol assailants. Nevertheless, some senators refuse to accept any of it. “The entire House managers’ case is based on hearsay,” said Sen. Ted Cruz. “The trial record was a complete joke,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham. Even after Trump’s lawyers agreed to admit as evidence a written statement from a Republican congresswoman about an incriminating conversation with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Graham dismissed her account.
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8. Anyone who denounces Trump must be denounced. Graham and Johnson repeatedly castigated Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for objecting to Trump’s conduct. In radio interviews over the weekend, Johnson said McConnell should “zip his lip” because his criticism of Trump “divides the Republicans.” Johnson also repudiated the Jan. 6 speech in which McConnell criticized Trump for lying about the election results. Meanwhile, in Fox News interviews, Graham complained that McConnell had “put a load on the back of Republicans” by making anti-Trump statements, to which other Republican senators would now have to respond.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210219033347/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2021/02/senate-awful-reasons-acquitting-trump.html
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In a statement entered into a congressional record that was released on Thursday, Mitt Romney said Trump's denial of the election results was "one of the most reprehensible acts" possible and warned that the perpetuation of this "big lie" threatens the American people.
On January 3, three days before the deadly insurrection, The Washington Post leaked an audio recording of a phone call where Trump pressured Georgia's secretary of state to "find" more votes in his favor. Romney described this as "a heinous act that merited impeachment" in his statement.
"I hear many calls for unity. It is apparent that calling for unity while at the same time appeasing the big lie of a stolen election is a fraud," Romney wrote. "It is in the service of that lie that a mob invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6."
He continued: "Now that the impeachment trial is behind us, it falls to each of us to affirm what we all know: President Biden won the election through the legitimate vote of the American people.
"The division in America will only begin to heal in the light of this truth, a truth which must now be affirmed by each of us in this chamber."
Romney's full statement at
www.romney.senate.gov/romney-releases-statement-congressional-record-i
mpeachment-trial
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I'm sure you'll catch the whale someday, Captain Ahab.
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Don't worry about Romney either. He's not going to be in office much longer.
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Quote:I voted to convict President Trump. We must consider how we came to a point where a president felt he could do as he did without suffering meaningful consequence.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm sure you'll catch the whale someday, Captain Ahab.
It has become almost cliché to say that America is divided as never before in modern history. So, too, is the observation that this division is the product of a decline in trust in our governing institutions, of a decline in the social bonds forged in churches and charities and communities, of expanding income inequality, and of trusted news sources replaced by cable and internet algorithms calculated to inflame our prejudices.
Less unanimous are the predictions of where this division will lead. Even so, no one suggests that it will lead to a better future. Some envision an economy buffeted by policies drafted by the extreme wings of the political parties. Others claim that authoritarianism will replace democracy. Some anticipate social unrest and violence. A few even predict civil war. Still others fear that a weakened America will become vulnerable to an opportunistic foreign foe.
We instinctively know that the growing division represents a growing danger. Academics and pundits may promote cures, but in our hearts, we know that their bromides won’t heal the rift: People aren’t going to return to mainstream media, churches aren't going to experience a resurgence, and income inequality will remain a persistent feature of the global digital economy.
Throughout history, only one thing has been able to unite a divided nation: great leaders—leaders like Churchill who inspired a fearful nation; leaders like Lincoln who mustered the national will to save the Union; and leaders like Reagan who raised our spirits from suffocating malaise. Leaders like these also have been essential in our churches and universities and businesses and charities, and just as importantly, in our homes.
With our nation so divided, so vulnerable to economic distress or to civil violence or even to foreign adversaries, the need for leadership that unites and uplifts, that calls on our better angels, is as great as we have ever known. The corollary is that the failure of leaders to unite, to speak truth, to place duty above self, is as dangerous as we have ever known.
With the country as divided as it assuredly is, a person in a position of leadership who inflames passions with the purpose of perpetuating untruth commits a singularly dangerous sin against the Republic.
Civic unity does require truth. There is one untruth that divides the nation today like none other: it is that the election was stolen, that there was a massive conspiracy, more secret and widespread than any in human history, so brilliant in execution that no evidence can be found of it and no observer among the tens of thousands in our intelligence agencies will speak of it.
That lie brought our nation to a dark and dangerous place. Invented and disseminated by the President, it poisoned our politics and our public discourse.
https://www.romney.senate.gov/romney-releases-statement-congressional-
record-impeachment-trial
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I voted to convict President Trump. We must consider how we came to a point where a president felt he could do as he did without suffering meaningful consequence.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm sure you'll catch the whale someday, Captain Ahab.
No. YOU must consider that because you're deranged and pushing a false narrative.
Trump didn't do shit.
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Quote:Let's put it another way. 12 Republican Senators said Trump was guilty but wouldn't convict him because it would damage their political careers. 7 more Republicans voted to convict because they weren't afraid of Trump but were afraid of looking like gullible fools to believe Trump's lies.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. YOU must consider that because you're deranged and pushing a false narrative.
Trump didn't do shit.
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I see the never-Trumpers are working mightily to reverse the historical fact that Trump wasn't convicted in this latest impeachment, by shifting the goalposts (away from how senators voted to what they 'thought') ... just as they worked mightily to ignore the fact that there was no Trump-Russia "collusion" in the Mueller Report by shifting those goalposts.
Their obsession continues ...
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey. If you're right, enjoy President Pence. Maybe the church will be indistinguishable from the state 4 years from now. lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's assuming Pence is clean. That said, while his policies are a problem I have at this point no reason to question his patriotism.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I see the never-Trumpers are working mightily to reverse the historical fact that Trump wasn't convicted in this latest impeachment, by shifting the goalposts (away from how senators voted to what they 'thought') ... just as they worked mightily to ignore the fact that there was no Trump-Russia "collusion" in the Mueller Report by shifting those goalposts.
Their obsession continues ...
We should start a pool on how long they talk about Trump without ever mentioning Biden*.
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