Donald Trump, as predicted, was acquitted during the Senate trial. Sadly, but predictably, seven RINO Republicans voted to convict. They are Burr, Collins, Cassidy, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse and Toomey. They just self-nominated to the RINO Hall of Shame. Clearly none of them actually listened to the presentations by the House Managers or Trump’s legal counsel. Everyone voted without regard to any of this.
This was followed by Mitch McConnell giving one of the most arrogant and self-righteous speeches in the history of the U.S. Senate. This is a classic example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. All McConnell should have said is the trial is over let’s get back to work. Instead, he decided to preach to the nation explaining why, after voting to acquit, he still thinks Trump is guilty as sin. It was condescending and stupid. What an absolute snake.
McConnell’s major argument is that Trump was making false allegations about a fraudulent election. McConnell clearly thought Trump should have just rolled over and pretended everything was normal. While there have been some wild conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines and double secret agents manipulating the election from a secret high-tech hideout somewhere in Europe, many of the accusations are actually very real. That is why 18 states joined Texas in that lawsuit to the Supreme Court. It is why several state legislatures voted to send alternative electors because of the obvious election violations during the 2020 election. McConnell was either oblivious to this or he didn’t care.
He ended up speaking to a rapidly dwindling TV audience. No one wanted to hear this nonsense. Democrats where not interested in hearing why someone voted to acquit Donald Trump even though he thought Trump was guilty as sin. Republicans didn’t want to hear a sermon telling them to ignore their lying eyes. I seriously believe that McConnell was preaching to a shrinking and soon empty choir. Neither the people who agreed with him or who disagreed with him were interested.
The bottom line is this. Trump was acquitted by the Senate. This was after a botched process that included tons of false and misleading evidence that no court would allow to be used in a legal proceeding. There are probably some people who still dream of Trump being charged with a crime, for something, but they are hopelessly delusional.
Following the acquittal Trump issued a statement, that is total class.
BREAKING: Trump Releases Statement Following Impeachment Acquittal (thegatewaypundit.com)
This makes his opponents look even worse than they did before. Trump has learned something important. He doesn’t need to take shots at his enemies anymore. They are engaged in a circular firing squad rapidly eliminating each other. When people are saying and doing things this ridiculous the best response is to ignore them. Trump probably heard about McConnell’s speech, got back into his golf cart, and asked: “what did you get on that hole?” He is now focused on things far more important than anything said or done by Mitch McConnell.
There are a lot of Republican Senators guaranteed to be furious with McConnell. He will pay a high price for this. This won’t be obvious at first, because these people are very smart and very focused. But they will not ignore this and at some point, his day of reckoning will arrive. I predict no later than the fall of 2022, when Republicans take back the House and the Senate. When that happens there is zero chance Mitch McConnell will be the next majority leader. Winners pick winner not whiners.
The trial is over. The House Impeachment case was demolished. It was so bad they tried, and failed, to call an additional witness. No one on either side of the trial wanted this to continue. That witness, by the way, would have helped Trump if anyone were listening. She reported that when McCarthy called him about the riot, Trump allegedly said those weren’t my people. She thought that was outrageous, but it is clear evidence that Trump did not think his people were doing this. Why would he think that if he had deliberately incited them? Of course, no one in the MSM, including on FOX News, picked up on this.
If you have noticed, the MSM has already moved on. They are reporting that Trump was acquitted. Some say that seven Republicans voted to convict but no one pretends that matters. This creates several huge problems for Democrats. What, after all, was the point if Trump just continued playing golf? The only thing accomplished was to waste time on another exercise in futility.
But they did a lot more than that. While the Senators were clearly not paying attention to the evidence, other people did. The Democratic case fell completely apart, and they know it. That is why they tried to call a witness. During the closing argument by the Trump attorney literally said the House Impeachment Managers were guilty of fraud. When they closed, they never even addressed this accusation. I guarantee you a lot of people noticed this.
They also noticed that nothing is being done to fix COVID 19, nothing is being done to fix the economy and some of the actions taken by Biden are already showing up in negative results. Today the news broadcasters spent little time on COVID. They were too busy reporting on the increase in gas prices. Don’t be surprised if rising gas prices replaces COVID in the daily reporting. And this time, it is impossible to blame it on Donald Trump.
Sometimes getting what you want comes at a very high price. Never truer than today, Democrats impeached and tried Donald Trump and it changed nothing. But accomplishing nothing came at a high cost. This put Democratic hypocrisy and incompetence on full public display. When Republicans promised to call Nancy Pelosi as a witness if they kept this up, Democrats ran for cover. Most people watching know who ran for cover and who didn’t.
TDM