The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday is the history fact that President Donald Trump was impeached a second time this week. Trump called for his supporters to travel to Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, the day that Congress was scheduled to certify the electoral votes. Trump was addressing the crowd of hundreds of thousands to millions of supporters during the time that “bad actors” breached the barriers at the U.S. Capitol Building. Yet, Trump and his supporters were blamed for the attack on the Capitol.
The mob attack on the Capitol gave
Democrats a much-needed “crisis” to not “let go to waste.” Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi introduced a single article of impeachment that read: “Donald John
Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence
against the Government of the United States.” All Democrats in the House, plus
ten Republicans, voted to impeach Trump.
Pelosi hoped for a quick impeachment
followed by a fast conviction to remove Trump from office as quickly as
possible. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw cold water on her plans
when he said that he would not call the senators back in session to hold the
trial. Undecided about voting for conviction, McConnell did not rule out a Senate
trial that would eventually convict Trump. However, he insisted that the Senate
was not returning until January 19. A trial will most likely be delayed until
after the Inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, which would be after Trump
is out of office.
Pelosi is expected to pass the
article of impeachment to the Senate on January 19, 2021. The senators will
reconvene the day prior to Inauguration Day on January 20, and no one knows
what the leaders in the Senate will do. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) made
the following statement declaring that removing Trump from office is beyond the
constitutional authority of the Senate after he leaves office.
The House has passed an article of
impeachment against the president, but the Senate under its rules and precedents
cannot start and conclude a fair trial before the president leaves office next
week.
Under these circumstances, the Senate
lacks constitutional authority to conduct impeachment proceedings against a
former president.
The Founders designed the impeachment
process as a way to remove officeholders from public office – not an inquest
against private citizens. The Constitution presupposes an office from which an
impeached officeholder can be removed.
Senator Cotton declared that all
decisions should be guided by “fidelity to the Constitution.” He opposed all
efforts to reject certified electoral votes, and he opposes the impeachment
process.
Pelosi’s desire and action toward a
quick impeachment and trial showed that she was afraid of Trump. She made it
sound as though he was a danger to the country and went so far as to contact
the Joint Chiefs of the military to convince them to not work with Trump. The
Joint Chiefs said that they considered Trump to be their Commander-in-Chief
until noon on January 20, 2021.
We soon learned why Pelosi was in
such a hurry. Within hours of the impeachment information began leaking out
about the attack on the Capitol. The FBI knew that an attack on the Capitol was
being planned and relayed it to the Capitol Police. The Chief of Capitol Police
requested more police as well as National Guard units to help protect the
Capitol. His requests – several – were declined. We have not learned who
declined the requests, but it could be Pelosi and McConnell, the leaders of the
House and the Senate.
In addition, news continues to leak
out about the people who attacked the Capitol Building. The timing and distance
between the Capitol Building and the White House where Trump was speaking to
his supporters makes it nearly impossible for the same people to be both
places. Plus, the attack started 20-30 minutes before the President finished
his speech.
The nation is united in demanding
that the perpetrators of the attack be arrested and tried. Republicans are
always against riots and destruction, but Democrats choose the crimes that they
are against or for. Now that investigators say that members of Black Lives
Matter (BLM) and Antifa were leading the attack, Democrats are not so adamant.
Republicans say that anyone who commits a crime should be held responsible.
The bottom line is that Trump could
not have incited the attack. He was not through speaking when the attack began.
The distance between the Capitol and the site of the speech were separated by a
distance of a mile and half. People have said that it would take up to 45
minutes for the Trump supporters to arrive at the Capitol. In addition, Trump
did not say anything to incite the rioters. He mentioned that they would be
moving to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically to make their voices heard.”
Yet, Pelosi plunged quickly into a second round of impeachment for the
President.
Thursday or Friday President Trump unclassified
a stack of documents about 12-14 inches tall and ordered them to be released.
The documents are the papers held by the FBI since the beginning of the Trump
Administration in one of the greatest crimes ever in the U.S. government.
Obamagate is a spying action led by President Barack Obama and Vice President
Joe Biden on the Trump 2016 campaign and into the early weeks/months of his
presidency. The head of the CIA, the FBI, and other government officials and
employees were involved in the attempt to remove Trump from office. Their
efforts continue to hurt and complicate the lives of several members of the Trump
campaign and/or administration.
The Russian collusion delusion was
investigated for more than two years and cost the nation more than forty million
dollars. The results showed nothing. Democrats were not to be denied, so they
pounced on a call that Trump made with the President of Ukraine. Democrats
insisted that there was quid pro quo on the call – meaning that Trump promised
something to Ukraine if he got the help he wanted. Trump merely questioned some
business dealings of Hunter Biden with Burisma. The Democrats ran full speed
ahead to impeachment, but the Senate did not vote to convict him and remove him
from office.
Meanwhile, the China coronavirus hit
the United States and dealt a blow to the U.S. economy. Democrats used the
virus to hurt Trump, and they also planned to commit election fraud. At the
suggestion of Hillary Clinton, key battleground states flooded their states
with ballots that could not be controlled. There was election fraud, but no one
will ever know if there was enough to affect the election. Judges would not
look at cases, and Congress refused to investigate. Democrats finally
accomplished what they wanted: get Trump out of office.
The problem is that getting Trump
out of office is not all they want. They want to destroy him. The second
impeachment was rushed through to make sure that Trump is ineligible to run for
any office again. Even that accomplishment does not satisfy them. They are
trying to destroy him and his family financially, politically, and every other
way.
The actions of the Democrats beg one
question: Why are they so afraid of Trump? The only answer that would explain
their fervor in destroying him is that they are afraid that he will expose
their corruption for all Americans to see. Well, the evidence is coming out.
Emails about the Biden family corruption in doing business with China show that
Biden is compromised. He has already sold America out. The unclassified
information about Obamagate is proof of the corruption in the Deep State and
that Obama was instrumental in it. The Deep State is nothing but a secret
combination or a group of secret combinations.
The fact is that the President of the
United States does not run the country. He is a figurehead for a nation led by
corrupted individuals who are trying to destroy the U.S. Constitution and
government. Up until Trump, the President either worked with the perpetrators
or turned their heads away from the evidence. The government of the United
States is under the control of secret combination(s), and Trump was standing between
them and the American people.
From their point of view, Trump had to go
one way or another. I prefer that he lose the election rather than lose his
life, but his exit from the White House leaves Americans – Trump supporters and
Trump haters – with a defender. We are now at the mercy of the perpetrators of
the greatest governmental scandal in our history.
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