THE IMPEACHMENT VERDICT HAS BEEN DECIDED

-Not Just The Story of the Verdict-but the Ramification in the Aftermath

 

Just prior to the GOP Senate verdict-Wall Street Journal issued a Scavenging Editorial Verdict on Donald Trump: The damning editorial pointed out, that Trump’s legacy ‘will be forever stained’ by the dastardly violence on Jan 6. Which became a riot that rocked the US Capital by his rousing and inciting out-of-control supporters. Done so through manipulation and untruths about the Nov 2020 election. An election he lossed but claimed at numerous rallies and with the use of social media via Twitter that the election was rigged and stolen. The editorial board went on to share that, ‘whatever the results’ of the Senate impeachment trial for inciting the riot, Republicans should remember the betrayal if Trump decides to run again in 2024.

 

The editorial board of Wall Street even recalled some of Trump’s election fraud rhetoric. How they thought it was indicative of playing with fire. Especially for hours how he refused to attempt to defuse the violence, after saying to the rioter’s mob, he’d walk to the Capital building with them, but instead, he went to the White House and watched chaotic scenes on television. It was the belief there was ‘no defense’ for Trump’s conduct prior to and during the incident on Jan 6, 2021

 

THE SENATE VERDICT

 

The voting tally, 50 Democrats with 7 Republicans that cross the aisle for a total of 57 votes to convict, and 43 other GOP Senators voted for an Acquittal. One of the best DNC/GOP  efforts-but the 2/3 rule needed to be 67 to convict- it fell 10 votes short  

 

THE VERDICT AFTERMATH COMMENTS

 

Mitch McConnell, GOP Senator, after voting with the 43 to clear Trump, rushed to the platform to launch an all-out attack on the ex-president. McConnell tore into Trump saying & making such comments as:

·        Trump was clearly responsible for inciting the Capital riot on Jan 6

·        But immediately argued the former president is still liable for everything he did while in office

·        However, congress does not have the reach to impeach him for it

·        He did not get away with anything yet, we have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil ligation and former presidents are not immune to being accountable by either one

 

Sen. Lisa Murkowski {R-Alaska} issued a scorching statement as to why she decided to cross the aisle to vote to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, she said “The facts make it clear that the violence and desecration of The capital we saw on Jan 6, was not a spontaneous uprising” She went on to explain that she believed, “Trump set the stage” for the insurrection many months before by repeatedly pushing unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election” She further said, “Trump did everything in his power to stay in power”, “ultimately calling on his supporters to come to D.C. ‘To Stop The Steal’ of an election, ‘That Had Not Been Stolen’, and then to give the mob crowd explicit instructions to march to the US Capitol on Jan 6 and to do collateral damage by any means necessary

 

Of course, Nancy Pelosi was livid as she crashed the House Impeachment managers press conference following the trial conclusion. Specifically, she lashed out an attack on McConnell and his aftermath comments on the floor after his vote for acquittal. She said of McConnell, remember; when he talked about incitement, he said then, he did not think Trump's behavioral action rose to the level of impeachment. He was hedging all over the place then to justify his vote today

 

TRUMP Missed Opportunity

COVID-19, has claimed the lives of approximately half a million people in the USA. While Trump downplayed the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, as promoted untested therapies and pressured state governments to lift economic restrictions designed to be safe and protected to disavow the spread of the virus COVID-19

 

Refused to release his tax returns and to create a blind trust for business holdings that made money during the presidency. He sought repeatedly to interfere with investigations of the Russian's interference in this 2016 election victory. He called them ‘very fine people’-the political extremists, Q’non, White Supremacists, Altright and White Nationalist demonstrations Aug 2017, Charlottesville, VA

 

Chris Whipple, author of “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency said that for all his “norm-shattering:

·        The Mad Tweeting-The rampant corruptions

·        The science denial-The war against immigrants

·        Trump will be remembered for two things

 

HOW TRUMP WILL BE REMEMBERED:

~His fumbling of a lethal pandemic that impacted and cost the loss of half a million lives

~His incitement rioters mob and the bloody insurrection against a free and fair election. When weighted against those two twin legacies-nothing else will matter or rise to the occasion

 

In addition, the court of public opinion, according to Jennifer Mercieca, the author of Ðemagogue for President: the Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump, The following:

·        Refused to participate in the traditional peaceful transition of powers of the Presidency of the White House residency

·        A National Political Leader who refused to accept the loss and acknowledge the newly-elected US Presidency of Biden/Harris

·        Instead he chose to spread conspiracy theories, threatened officials and called his loyal followers to Washington to incite an insurrection on the US Capital

·        Disregarded the Honor, the Power & the Respect of the White House and the  Presidency of These United States of America that he was afforded by the Obama’s when he came into office in 2016-17

 

Steve Braxton, Freelance Writer & Blogger, author of non-fiction books, memoirs and poetic stanza, http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs/ sbrax57@gmail.com