Nbc Nightly News is reporting that Louisiana Gop has censured Bill Cassidy for voting to convict Trump.
Nbc Nightly News is reporting that Louisiana Gop has censured Bill Cassidy for voting to convict Trump.
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Scores of people on Twitter are whining like spoiled children because Democrats chose not to call witnesses. That would've been a mistake because Qpublicans would've turned that into a royal farce, calling Obama, Hillary, Biden, Harris, Hunter, everyone under the sun to testify, needlessly stretching things out for days, even weeks. And in the end, nothing would've changed, there could've been video of Trump helping set up the gallows for Mike Pence on 1/6 and Qpublicans STILL woud've voted to acquit. No matter, the GQP demonstrated their rank cowardice and hypocrisy for the world to see by letting Trump off the hook, never mind betraying their "Blue Lives Matter" mantra because the families of the two Capitol police officers who died in the aftermath of the failed resurrection won't get the justice they so richly deserve. Bottom line: History will not be kind to the GQP after what went down today.
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I think the issue of witnesses was completely put to bed. Stacey Plaskett brilliantly pointed out the first impeachment trial is STILL waiting on Don McGahn to be litigated.
It's a pipe dream to think you will get hostile witnesses in a Perry Mason trial here. It wasn't going to happen and the GOP don't care. They asked Trump to come. He said no. Someone in the Pence camp? White house people? Come on. It didn't matter, Mitch agreed the house managers made their case.
The House Managers were pretty firm with the reporters on this after the fact. And I thought they handled themselves well.
What would one or two other witnesses have done to sway the GOp at this point? What could it have done. Raskin said they could have called ten witnesses and it would have done no good or something along those lines.
I will be honest I have voiced my doubts about the whole thing. Still dont know how to feel about it. But the House managers did an amazing job presenting their case. And they presented it in a way that witnesses could not add anything to what they said. And as one of them pointed out. The Gop Senators lived through it. So what would an outside witness have to add to what they went through?
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The Trumpists still wouldn't change their votes. Don could have come in and admitted it and some of them still would have voted to acquit. The want the support of people who believe in conspiracies and lies. The best thing that the rest of the country can do is vote them out of office.
The only witnesses of value would be White House staff who might be able to discuss Trump's state of mind.
Because as far as the insurrection goes? What witnesses did they need when there's video of Trump and his co-conspirators doing everything in plain sight.
He didn't murder someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it... he tried to have a proxy mob lynch his vice-president and the Republicans are fine with it because they weren't successful enough and they're scared of his base.
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Admittedly I don't understand how this works. If the dems control both houses doesn't that mean they have the majority of the votes? If so, then does that mean some dems voted not to convict trump?
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I'd love to know what's going through Mike Pence's mind after his party acquitted the man who sicced a rabble of psychotics on his ass, knowing if things turned out differently, he might've wound up joining the list of victims from that horrible day. I'm sure Pence is feeling like a man without a country after the GQP turned it's collective backs on him. Do I feel sorry for they guy? Nope!
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"I love mankind...it's people I can't stand!!"
- Charles Schultz.
"I love mankind...it's people I can't stand!!"
- Charles Schultz.
It is so refreshing and amazing to read a statement that is well thought out, to the point, and shows Empathy, over Disjointed, off track, and hateful like we did with Trump.
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Let them act this way, Its this Kind of Stuff that is only Quickening the Fleeing of their Voters and shrinking their ranks:
‘There’s Nothing Left’: Why Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a stronger-than-usual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/u...ing-party.html
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