Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Democrat managers from House of Representatives bring Impeachment Charges to Democrat Controlled Senate, Presided over by a Democrat

Can you find the MASSIVE STRATEGIC BLUNDER contained in the Article of Impeachment brought against former President Trump by all these Democrats ?????


They let their "Trump Derangement Syndrome" take over  ---  making the article of impeachment look like it was a four-flushing bid to rewrite history and extract a pound of flesh out of "President" Donald Trump, jointly drafted by Joy Reid, Joyce Behar and Don Lemon rather than anybody holding any public office of trust and responsibility 

Nine Democrat members in the House of Representatives conveyed a single article of impeachment against President Trump, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" related to the  violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Specifically, last night the lead Impeachment Manager from the House of Representatives, Jamie Raskin, delivered to the U.S. Senate one single article of impeachment, stating all the present charges against citizen Donald J. Trump, the former President of these United States.  His remarks to the Senate contained the following statement of the charges: 

"....  Resolved, that Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
[This is the]  Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
ARTICLE 1: INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION
The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment" and that the President "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment, for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Further, section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the United States from "hold[ing] and office ... under the United States.' In his conduct while President of the United States — and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, provide, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed — Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States, in that:
On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United States Capitol for a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide." He also willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol, such as: "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore." Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts.
President Trump's conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so.
In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States."
And at about 2:30 PM this afternoon,  all the U.S. Senators were sworn in as jurors on that single article of impeachment.  ---  At both the delivery of the House Impeachment .charges to the Senate,  and the swearing of all the Senators as jurors for the Impeachment Trial, Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy.  
Let's see what happens next.....  

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hank Aaron got his COVID shot on Jan 5th. Two weeks later he's dead.
Senator Leahy got his COVID shot two weeks ago. He was just rushed to hospital.

Vermont has a GOP Governor.

Galewyn Massey said...

NEWS UPDATE & A LOOK AHEAD: THE "THE FIRST THING THAT 'HAPPENED NEXT'..." EDITION

IN A VERY EARLY VOTE BY THE WHOLE SENATE, SENATOR RAND PAUL'S "CONSTITUTIONAL POINT OF ORDER" --- QUESTIONNING THE VALIDITY OF CONDUCTING A SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF A CITIZEN NO LONGER HOLDING THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT WAS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY FORTY-FOUR (44) OF HIS REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES


The "question" raising the [in]validity of the continuing proceedings was defeated by a vote of 55-45, with only five Republicans joining the unified caucus of Democrat Senators.

If the vote on this "question" is indicative of a trend among the Senators in favor or against conviction, the impeachment effort will almost certainly fail.....