By Michael Goodwin
Apparently believing his first week in the White House has been flawless and the public will be extra patient with him, Joe Biden did a very foolish thing. He decided to ride the tiger of impeachment.
“I think it has to happen,” the president said in a brief TV interview about his party’s bid to try Donald Trump. Biden conceded a Senate trial would slow confirmation of his nominees and passage of legislation tied to pandemic relief, but insisted there would be “a worse effect if it didn’t happen.”
He doesn’t say what could be worse, but let’s take a guess: Democrats obsessed with getting revenge on Trump would get furious at Biden. That’s the only possible answer because only Democrats would revolt if Trump were not put in the dock.
Chalk it up to another example of Biden having trouble with the transition from partisan candidate to president. You might remember his promise to work for all Americans, no matter how they voted, but he’s already forgotten it. His dozens of executive orders and pronouncements show he’s working only for left-wing Dems.
When it comes to impeachment, he’s also late to the game. Biden’s first clear support for Nancy Pelosi’s Folly comes just as the winds are shifting in Trump’s favor and the chance of conviction is rapidly approaching zero.
The change reflects the fact that the Dems’ theater of the absurd is becoming more messy and less logical with each passing day. Tempers over the Jan.6 Capitol riot are cooling and reality is setting in about the pitfalls of a trial and the need to get on with governing during the twin public-health and economic crises.
Start with the concept of the trial itself. A CNN caption on a photo of House managers walking the single article to the Senate said it would start “only the fourth impeachment trial of a president in US history.”
Except Trump is no longer president. An honest caption would have noted this would be the first impeachment trial of a former president — and thus a private citizen — by the Senate. Doesn’t quite have the same zing, but happens to be true.
The justification for a trial is even shakier with the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts to be a no-show. Roberts has bailed out, reportedly refusing to preside because Trump is no longer president.
The Constitution says the court’s chief justice “shall preside” when the president is the accused, but Roberts either decided he doesn’t have to, or shouldn’t, because Trump is out of office.
As a result, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy will preside, making the Democrat both juror and judge. How’s that for fairness?
These events shoot a big hole in the Dems’ rationale, and Sen. Rand Paul created an even bigger one Tuesday. The Kentucky Republican gave a powerful speech in which he called the process a “sham” and, by asserting the trial would be unconstitutional, forced each senator to vote yes or no on the question. Only five Republicans voted “yes” with all 50 Democrats, meaning the 45 other GOP senators view the trial as unconstitutional. It is close to a given that they would also vote to acquit Trump, meaning there will be nowhere near the 67 votes needed for conviction.
Its an admission that Trump won, the only reason to impeach or legally remove a President. There was no insurrection not even a simple minded attempt at insurrection.
What we have is fear, 30 % of all voters dont think this was a fair and free election.
Those that hold the election materials refuse independent audits.
To ask them to prove Bidens win is now considered extremist. If it was a poker game we wouldnt let them grab the pot without showing they beat our 4 Aces if they claim a Royal Flush.
It isnt us who is claiming without evidence, State election laws were broken, an election was won it is The Democrats who wont pony up the proof.
Like president* Biden, that is “fairness” with a disclaimer. It’s DEMOCRAT fairness, which is the type that presumes guilt of Republicans and ignores guilt of Democrats. Noteworthy that Leahy was one of three Democrats that actually DID what Trump was accused of; hold aid ransom for some dirt that could be used against Trump. I didn’t include Biden in that group because he merely extorted Ukraine for monetary reasons.
I hope those awaiting their COVID relief are taking note of what Democrats are doing here. There is no possible justification for conducting yet another sham impeachment totally disassociated with any crime. It is nothing but another Democrat temper tantrum and it is totally driven by the vile harpy Pelosi. There is no evidence anywhere linking Trump to any crime (again), Trump can’t be removed from office (what impeachment is for) because he’s not IN office, and the Chief Justice will not take part (because it is a ridiculous waste of everyone’s time), so it has no meaning, purpose or standing.
Wasting time while fomenting divisiveness is the only thing Democrats do well. This is a perfect example. ANYONE supporting this in Congress should be FIRED.
@kitt: Biden joining the chorus of the stupid shows he still fears Trump. And he should. Trump is going to be ripping Biden’s stupidity apart and organizing the resistance that is going to remove his Congressional power.
Now that we have the rules, let’s start impeaching former Presidents. Let’s start with Obama.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/26/ten-reasons-a-post-presidency-impeachment-of-barack-obama-should-happen-n1409484
And not one impeachment with 10 counts; impeach him 10 times. Hell, 11; this doesn’t even mention Fast and Furious.
Like the first “impeachment”, this one has zero basis beyond illegal use of the law for stealing power.
It’s UnAmerican and will not be tolerated by the majority of Americans.
@kitt: @Deplorable Me: @Nathan Blue:
So the faux impeachment process begins. Three things it points out:
#1 The people who are now part of the New Socialist Democratic Party are still crapping in their pants over the America First policies of Trump. It was a stop gap to their lining their pockets with Chinese money. Trump lives rent free in their heads forever because they know the American people support America First before they support the NSDP.
#2 When they are all colluding in their offices on how to proceed with the faux impeachment process, lining up their talking points and false accusations, they are no on the floor of Congress creating even more destruction of our nation.
#3 Eventually power in Congress will flip. And when it does, new standards for impeachment will have been cast in stone and those standards will come back to bite the NSDP members. All that will be required is for some mental midget like Maxine Waters to tell her adoring fans to “get out and fight” and she will be impeached.
@retire05: Since there is no crime associated with this impeachment, Trump loses no support on account of it. In fact, his support only grows stronger as Democrat’s abuse of power is exposed more and more. DEMOCRATS are the threat to the nation, not Trump or his supporters.
Trump’s American Carnage (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
They should run the video as evidence at Trump’s impeachment trial.
Do spineless republicans in the Senate not realize they were part of the target? They obediently rolled over and protected this jackass once, and now they’re going to do it again.
@Greg: Trump has done more for this country than any President since Reagan. Democrats simply hate it when the American people get more than THEY do. They are willing to destroy the country to grasp power and that is what they are doing.
A 7-million majority of the American people just voted for the Democratic Party candidate, who had clearly stated what his intentions were many times throughout his entire campaign. They were angry about Trump’s rhetoric and “accomplishments” even before his lunatic mob invaded the Capitol in an effort to overturn the election.
@Greg: Prove it! There was no 7 million majority no Democrat win.
If Biden won why are they impeaching Trump, he must be the President to be impeached! The constitution tells me so.
We have film of them being allowed in and given tours, hardly an invasion.
Did Kamala call in her Antifa pals to disturb evidence being presented on live TV, 20 minutes before Trumps speech ended?
@Greg: There was no Democrat majority; that’s all fraud. It worked to steal the ekection but it doesn’t grant you an imaginary mandate.
BLM led the riot. Shame on all that participated but leftists instgated and led it.
@kitt, #10:
Donald Trump was sworn in after the 2016 election without an angry mob taking over the Capitol, despite having lost the popular election by over 2.8 million votes. It’s the entire constitutional process that provides the proof. Nobody gets to kick over the table because they don’t like the result. Once that happens, you no longer have an orderly constitutional process or a nation ruled by law. You’ve got authoritarian rule.
Remember Jeffery (He Didn’t Kill Himself) Epstein?
Remember his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell??
Well, globalist and GOPe’r Mitt Romney had a business relationship with her father to the tune of $5 million.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176398/Mitt-Romneys-250m-fortune-built-Englands-notorious-business-figures.html
Biden, big tech, the media and all the rest of deep state are doing their utmost to memory-hole this fact.
They NEED Romney.
@Greg: Inauguration, 2017
How many Greg’s are there? This very information has been posted on this site numerous times, yet you pretend the left wing 2017 violence didn’t happen. See, THIS is why you have no credibility. All the Greg’s need to get together and discuss the facts, even if you don’t like facing them. Then one of you won’t look like a DOPE by claiming there is never any left wing violence.
Biden never got 80 million votes. He would be lucky to have gotten 60 million. The rest are fraud. Biden is an idiot that couldn’t even campaign for fear of looking like Biden. Only the profoundly stupid believe he won. Even many of them are seeing what a failure he is.
You think the Pentagon is sending the idiot Biden a message?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/lt-gen-charles-flynn-brother-of-michael-flynn-tapped-to-head-u-s-army-pacific_3673697.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-27-2
@Deplorable Me, #14:
The first video, which “doesn’t lie”, also doesn’t tell. Who, what, when, and where are all missing. One thing that can be easily deduced is that we’re not watching footage of a mob breaking through the doors and windows of our Capitol Building yelling Trump! Trump! Trump! and “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” These people weren’t just engaging in unlawful civil disorder. They were attacking the very center of our nation’s lawful order and democracy.
No, I don’t. I think that Michael Flynn and Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn are two entirely different people, to be judged based upon their own individual character and merits. If a man is a traitor, it doesn’t follow that his brother is a traitor.
He most certainly did. We just had a historically unprecedented voter turnout. Not a single national poll in months had suggested anything other than Trump being soundly beaten. What happened is entirely consistent will all indicators. The progress of the count after the polls closed even unfolded as predicted.
@Greg:
And you can be sure those are not the usual rioting suspects (BLM/ANTIFA) how, exactly? Aside from the fact that there has NEVER been a riot of Trump supporters, this is all pure ANTIFA tactics and antics they actually advertised they were going to commit; dress up as Trump supporters and instigate trouble. The Trump supporters were still listening to his speech when all this took place. His “incitement” was telling them to be peaceful and respectful.
Also coincidental that this took place just as the evidence of election fraud was about to be discussed in the session. But, surely that is just a coincidence, right?
Biden didn’t win. Anyone with a functioning intellect knows this. Give it up. You’ve succeeded through fraud; don’t expect any honest person to pretend it is legitimate.
Those so far identified, arrested, investigated, and charged don’t seem to be BLM or ANTIFA types. Their social media affiliations are with Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, QAnon, and assorted right-wing militia groups.
Trump’s followers believe this. That doesn’t make it so. Even McConnell has acknowledged that Trump didn’t win the election.
@Greg: The irrefutable facts are that the idiot Biden was an impossible win and so much fraud was required that it couldn’t be covered up. Also irrefutable is that BLM/ANTIFA are always behind the violence. Always. That’s why the left wing propaganda machine jumped on “incitement” in concert.
@Greg: You pull these Rinos out like the race card we know China Mitch , that card was never accepted anywhere whats in your wallet?
We are willing to clean house of traitors whats your party doing?
Putting spy humpers in charge of a sham. Trump won or they couldnt impeach him, you realllly dont get it.
They know stop the Steal is closing in, the hounds are baying at their backs. They can put up razor wire and fences, it doesnt matter.
@Deplorable Me, #18:
Who are you trying to convince?
@kitt, #19:
People who have lost patience with this nonsense may soon be closing in with straight jackets and butterfly nets.
January 27, 2021 – Man arrested on pipe bomb charges discussed attacking Twitter and Facebook, aimed to keep Trump president
@Greg: Seriously its the AZ legislature demanding the audit. you would know that if your media didnt keep you so ignorant.
Pointing out the one or 2 nut jobs your media digs for when we can show you footage of Antifa and BLM trying to burn federal employees alive while blocking them in a federal Courthouse, hundreds of the crazy fucks destroying public and private property.
DC will never be a state without a full constitutional amendment.
Try another card from your wallet baby boy.
@Greg:
Why not just go straight to the gas chambers, then? You know that’s what you really want.
Meanwhile, Leftwing violence far and away exceeds anything on the Right and is the only threat to out Democracy…outside of the 1’s and 0’s in Dictator Biden’s bank accounts….after the Renminbi to dollar conversion.
@Nathan Blue, #23:
You have no statistics of any kind whatsoever to back that statement up. In fact, the statistics tell a radically different story. Consider this graph, which shows for each year the percentage of terrorist attacks and plots by perpetrator orientation.
It was taken from this article.
I realize this will be immediately dismissed as leftist propaganda. Anything that contradicts the right’s world view is automatically so categorized without any further consideration. Near as I can tell, Trump supporters seldom if ever venture beyond the boundaries of their own insular information reservation. They can also easily reject the evidence of their own eyes and ears, should it run contrary to what they want to believe. Consider, for example, their refusal to understand what happened at the Capitol and who was responsible for it. They’ve easily convinced themselves it was all the fault of Black Lives Matter or ANTIFA, which is utter nonsense.
@Greg: #24
Funny how they don’t mention BLM at all.
And they don’t mention any Antifa violence after 2019.
I suppose the riots and destruction that we all witnessed across 2020 don’t count as terrorism because they were performed by the leftists.
@Petercat: They lump boogaloo in with right wing seems the think tank has not researched the backgroud of who they are lumping together.
Without a reference its impossible to cross check the accuracy of the chart. I guess camo equals right wing to the clueless “think tank”
They dont say where they place the KKK which is both historically and traditionally a Democrat or left leaning group. The article again aimed at ill informed to feed ignorant bias and fear mongering.
The innocent store owners victims of looting and burning should band together and sue the shit out of BLM so they would have less to donate to marxist democrat candidates running for office.
@Greg:
Some honest person with an open mind. My point to you is that I am not falling for your smoke screen. By the way, he’s one of the lawsuits that actually made it to court. What do you know… mail in ballots received late shouldn’t be counted. Unconstitutional. Three months late.
Just like Pennsylvania. Just like Michigan.
@Nathan Blue:
Not only that, but the right wing violence is a RESULT of the left wing violence which is NEVER stopped, NEVER condemned by the left, NEVER addressed in any way. We didn’t have the right wing violence before the left wing violence and more violence in response to the left’s violence was a predicted result.
@Petercat: Because the left wing violence is a Democrat political tool. Therefore, Democrats (which includes the media) do not acknowledge its existence. To totally ignore the massive and widespread left wing political terrorism and pretend right wing violence (that is a reaction to left wing violence) is an existential problem destroys any credibility these liars had left.
It all happened on Trump’s watch, didn’t it? That’s because we had an Inciter in Chief in office; a man whose predictably bombastic rhetoric widened and exploited divisions rather than calming unrest and addressing underlying problems. January 6th was nothing less than a culmination of Trump’s political modus operandi.
This is the jackass who had peaceful protesters outside the White House grounds teargassed and pushed aside so he could strut across the street like Benito Mussolini to pose for the cameras in front of a church with an upraised bible, topping even his appalling flag-hugging photo-ops. He made a mockery of piety and patriotism, just as he did of the rule of law.
@Greg:
Wow. How did Trump “incite” BLM/ANTIFA to riot, burn and loot cities? How? And, of course the obvious question is, if Trump incited the riots, why do they continue and the rioters scream they hate Biden? Hmmm?
No, DEMOCRATS incited the violence and DEMOCRATS encouraged more by allowing it to continue without trying to stop it. Trump offered all the help they needed, but DEMOCRATS refused. Further encouragement is given by making excuses for the violence and simply pretending it never happened.
They weren’t “gassed”. And they were unlawfully assembled, which is what Democrats call a riot in Portland and Seattle. They tried to burn an historic church to the ground. They actually destroyed property and even threatened the White House itself. All your remarks prove is that you agree with the violence, condone it, want to see it continue and approve of the Democrat’s fascism.
By continuously declining to express concern about or call for solutions to the repeated injustices that were the reason for the angry protests. He was the nation’s leader. That was part of his job. Instead, he pandered to racist and reactionary elements of his base. He has sided against those still struggling against racial oppression by deferring to an increasingly brazen radical element that actually carried the flag of a traitorous rebellion into our nation’s Capitol.
There’s a reason why you can’t figure that out.
As the situation presently stands…
@Deplorable Me:
It will be really funny when Comrade Greggie finds himself to be the Ernst Rohm of the Beijing Biden dictatorship.
@Greg:
Ummm, and of course you will lay the blame for the Ferguson riots on Obama, right?
Obama never behaved in the disgraceful ways that Donald Trump did. He never spouted the sort of rabble-rousing bombastic rhetoric that Trump did on a regular basis. He would never have given a speech like the one Trump gave before the mob invaded the Capitol. Obama was a credit to his party, to the office he held, and to the nation that he served. Trump has left all three seriously damaged.
@Greg: https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/06/obama-brings-a-gun-to-a-knife-fight-009692
Just shut up you have the memory of a hamster.
@Greg:
He (Obama) never spouted the sort of rabble-rousing bombastic rhetoric that Trump did on a regular basis.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”
Have you forgotten that, Comrade?
Obama had an opportunity to truly be the Great Uniter. Instead, we got Ferguson, Missouri and the start of the BLM, a Marxist organization that admits it uses the game plan of the Weather Underground.
Repeating your lies doesn’t make them truth.
I guess you’re happy that Beijing Biden has managed to shut down more jobs in one week than any previous president in our history. Or that we will not be sending millions of tax payer dollars off shore to make sure the killing of babies continues. Yeah, those are things you would approve of.
@Greg:
Ooooh…. NOT speaking incited the violence! You mean by not speaking to incidents that have not yet been fully investigated and the evidence discerned? I guess he withheld his opinion about George Floyd until he found out that Chauvin didn’t kill him but he died of a massive fentanyl overdose? I guess that’s another instance where he incited riots by asking for peace and calm.
Bullshit, Greg. BULLSHIT. Democrats incited the violence, Democrats ignored the evidence and facts and PROMOTED violence, riots and looting. Just like Trump inciting violence at the Capital is bullshit. What’s more, it’s transparent and clear the Democrats, if not guilty of promoting the whole thing, are guilty of exploiting it for their political purposes. But they are cutting their own throats.
While businesses, families and individuals suffer the economic pain of Democrat unnecessary shut downs, they pursue an impeachment they know is unconstitutional and not related to any actual crime.
The Democrats are the racists and they have the racist base that are all too willing and ready to resort to violence. The violence in Kenosha was incited by Democrats, without waiting for one shred of proof, again accused police of “killing an unarmed black man”. Now, after the flames have died down and the looting is done, Blake himself admits he had a weapon. DEMOCRATS inciting violence, endorsing it and failing to punish it.
Democrats pander to their racist followers, but as we’ve seen pandering doesn’t quell the violence. But, you ignored the question; if Trump is inciting the violence, why does it continue when he’s gone and making NO public statements?
I think running guns to Mexican cartels to try to smear and undercut the 2nd Amendment is disgraceful behavior. Using the IRS to attack conservatives is disgraceful. Ignoring security warnings and getting 4 Americans, including an Ambassador, killed is disgraceful and LYING about it is even MORE disgraceful. Spying on journalists is disgraceful, but even MORE disgraceful was spying on Trump’s campaign. Kicking 7 million off their insurance and doctors after promising dozens of times he wouldn’t was pretty disgraceful. You simply admire disgrace.
How about some of Trump’s “rabble rousing” speech, the kind that would incite violence? Here is some of Obama’s that DID incite violence.
“They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
“Get in Their Faces!”
“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
“Hit Back Twice As Hard”
“We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
“Punish your enemies”
Said a Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
Called Republicans “hostage takers”?
Disgraceful.
@retire05: Hey… wasn’t Rohm a homosexual?
Nah, they’ll “1619” the history of that and blame Trump for it, too.
@retire05, #35:
Obama was paraphrasing one of Sean Connery’s lines from the 1987 movie “The Untouchables”, where Jim Malone was explaining to Eliot Ness how one had to deal with a criminal organization like that of Al Capone. Maybe the analogy was lost on you.
Got any actual examples? That seems to be the only one you ever pull out of your bag to prop up a ridiculous tu quoque rebuttal.
The fact is that exploiting every division and working up populace anger and outrage was a standard part of Trump’s modus operandi. You can find it in virtually every rally speech the man ever gave. He sprayed his vitriol in the direction of anyone who got in his way. It was as much a part of his natural behavior as lying or boasting. It was something that many in his political base didn’t simply ignore, but actually liked, because he was acting out in the spotlight as they would have done themselves.
This is behavior that Obama simply didn’t engage in.
@Greg:
I see. So, in your demented mind, instigating violence is OK if you do it using a quote from a movie. Never mind that this was during the days when a young boy could be suspended from school because taking a bit out of a Pop Tart resembled a gun to some radical, fanatical teacher.
You have already been given more than one. Obama fans the flames of rioting and you are still here defending his actions. You are the classic useful idiot.
@Greg:
You lie.
@Greg:
So, like the idiot Biden, he plagiarizes his comments. Regardless of where it came from, it implied violence and told his followers, mostly idiots that don’t have minds of their own, to carry weapons and use them against anyone that will not submit to liberal rule.
We’re waiting on YOUR examples of Trump inciting violence. Well?
I gave you an entire list of Obama inciting violence. Here are other Democrats trying to get innocent people killed.
Liberals inciting violence
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10222357472199757&set=a.1320032934996
Democrats calling for violence
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2021/01/10/watch-high-profile-leftists-incite-violence-social-media-accounts-still-intact-n307606
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-physically-confont-twitter?fbclid=IwAR0xRqUap06sZpHZ_7INBKUL924t5JQ9uVb48UxUyVWaJc-GU4iwjmnrsms
What REALLY trying to incite violence looks like
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-video-exposes-democrats-who-incited-violence-against-conservatives
We still await your examples of Trump inciting violence. Mind you, I have been asking for that since January 6 without response. So, we are all waiting on you.
@retire05:
Obama’s quote didn’t instigate any violence. The remark was made at a 2008 political fundraising event in Philadelphia. It instigated political donations.
@Greg:
You have more excuses than a cheating husband, and are just as honest.
Here you go.
@retire05:
I’m not making any excuses. There’s nothing that I need to make any excuses for.
@Greg:
Apparently you have to rely on YouTube for your answers because you are too stupid to provide an answer yourself.
Pathetic.
In case you missed it: Trump’s American Carnage (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
This guy is done. If republicans want to let him burn their party down along with himself, fine. They’ll have no one to blame but themselves.
@Greg:
Again with the YouTube crap. You seem determined to prove that you are nothing but the FA dunce.
@Greg: So wrong, real Americans want America to prosper everyone in America to prosper.
These are the citizens that the Democrats now are trying to label domestic terrorists.
The citizens democrats are punishing by killing their jobs.
If the GOP cant represent these Americans they dont deserve a single vote. its not burning down the house its spring cleaning.
@Greg:
Cashing in on promoting violence. Remember Occupy Wall Street? Violence that Democrats promoted and, as a preview of what seems to be a characteristic, failed to suppress. Obama even made excuses for it.
Certainly not making any VIABLE excuses. Just lame, chickenshit, weak-ass excuses. Democrats constantly incite violence, Trump never has.
So, how about providing those examples? I’m not watching any of your youtube buttlube. Provide the quotes.
@retire05, #47:
What, this? I suppose by now it’s on the official Trump cult anathema list.
Do you know why there’s nothing equally damning to be found from any credible source regarding Barack Obama? Because there’s nothing to base any such claims on that wouldn’t be instantly exposed to the satisfaction of any reasonable person as a load of slanderous rubbish.
The reason such a documentary about Donald Trump has been presented on so highly respected an outlet for investigative reporting as FRONTLINE is because there’s no reasonable basis for disputing it. The evidence is abundant and there in the spotlight for the entire world to see.
You can deny it just like you deny the number that have died of COVID-19, the efficacy of wearing masks, the Trump campaign organization’s involvement with Russian operatives, his efforts to extort political favors from Ukraine, his obstruction of justice, his compulsive lying, his efforts to rig the 2020 election, or his 7-million-plus vote loss of the popular election. The reality of it still remains, and the morally bankrupt leaders of the GOP know it. You can deny that our elected officials are now in continuous personal danger from right-wing kooks, but that’s the new reality and the Trump has had much to do with it.