Is there any doubt that those Republican senators wrapping themselves in a dubious, unsupported constitutional theory would immediately change their position if this was the impeachment of a Democrat? With this irrefutable evidence confronting them, Republican senators have fallen back on claiming that it’s unconstitutional to convict a former President for impeachable offenses.
We know what happened next and what Trump said to send that angry mob to assault the Capitol. Capitol to disrupt the constitutional process as it was proceeding. Trump was left with one viable vehicle to stop the electoral vote certification – urging on the mass of Trump followers gathered only blocks from the U.S. Then he tried to strong arm his loyal second in command Vice President Mike Pence to ignore his constitutional duty and instead reject the certification of electoral votes. Whether as part of the Republican Party organization, the Trump campaign or third party groups like the Proud Boys, they came to Washington because Trump wanted them to come.įinally, it is un-contradicted that Trump was intent on having the certification of the electoral votes, pursuant to Constitutional mandate, disrupted and stopped.įirst, he tried unsuccessfully through feckless litigation to get the courts to stop it. That the presidency had been stolen from Trump.Īll those people who traveled to Washington on January 6, literally from all over the country, were aided, abetted and driven by Trump’s rhetoric. That Trump had actually won by a landslide. 3, Trump and his supporters loudly and constantly proclaimed, falsely, that massive election fraud had taken place.
For months before and after the November election, Trump stoked the fires of his followers’ anger. There can also be no question as to why that mob was present in Washington, D.C. Those senators, all of whom were there, know exactly what transpired. 6 - the tragic loss of life, threat to hundreds of innocent people and literal desecration of this symbol of American democracy - is irrefutable.
6 reinforce what the American public and the world saw on that day – only in more brutal detail.
The powerful presentation of video clips of the mob assault on the U.S. Before contemplating what MacArthur would have said, let’s consider what the un-contradicted evidence shows.
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