Dear CV Friend,
Like or hate Trump...
The Senate’s impeachment trial is a farce.
And even Senate Democrats know it.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer has already agreed on a fast-track timetable that will conclude the trial in less than a week.
You’ll hear from the House impeachment
managers, the former president’s legal team, and of course, the senators will make their speeches.
No witnesses. No real debate. Lots
of blustering aimed at punishing political enemies.
The purpose of an impeachment trial is to consider whether an elected official is guilty
of “high crimes or misdemeanors” for the purpose of removing them from office. Except President Trump is no longer in office! Which is
why many scholars have argued that the trial itself is not even constitutional.
So what’s the point of all this?
President Trump gave
an impassioned speech on January 6 about election integrity. Many Americans even today wonder about allegations of illegality and fraud. But he
never called for violence, or for a riot at the Capitol. He called on rally attendees to fight for the truth, and to march “peacefully.”
Instead a reckless group of rioters decided to imitate BLM.
DOUBLE STANDARD? If Democrats are serious about rebuking Trump because
they believe his speech was reckless or “incited violence” then they need to be consistent. Not a single Democrat has been corrected or
held accountable for their own reckless speech against the President. Should Bernie Sanders be held accountable for the superfan who opened fire on
Republican lawmakers on a softball field?
It’s worth recalling a few examples of Democratic “speech” urging aggression and even
violence...
- Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, told activists to
“get up in the face of some congresspeople” and said that supporters of Justice Kavanaugh were “complicit in evil.”
- Rep.
Maxine Waters, D-CA, told a rowdy crowd in Los Angeles: “If you see a member of the Trump administration at a restaurant, at a
department store, at a gas station ,or any place, you create a crowd and you push back on them.”
- Vice President Kamala
Harris (then a sitting U.S. Senator) encouraged activists to fund anarchists arrested for burning our cities during the antifa and Black
Lives Matter riots this summer.
That’s quite a list of “accomplishments.”
Their punishment? Fawning praise by the media.
If Democrats were serious and took
responsibility for their own reckless rhetoric, they could work with Republicans on a possible resolution to censure former President Trump.
But they aren’t serious. And the hypocrisy is glaring.
This is about Democrats yelling loud, one last time, about how much they
hate Donald Trump -- and everyone and everything he stood for.
They can’t let him go. He gets under their skin. And I think you know why.
Republican leaders over the last twenty years have often resembled the hapless Washington Generals team that the Harlem Globetrotters run circles
around. For far too long, Republicans had hoped that their earnestness and good faith would be congratulated by the media, and that the media would in
turn hold Democrats accountable.
But the problem is that the media gatekeepers are referees who are really wearing blue jerseys.
Millions of people in this country are sick and tired of the double standards. Americans are passionate, and we like to win. But we must have basic
fairness. When the Democrats and the mainstream media acting as one, our country
suffers.
Over the last decade, we’ve seen the
left weaponize and politicize everything from business to sports. Their rigid ideology demands atonement and submission. The only thing they seem to
understand is power.
Donald Trump is not flawless by any means.
But this impeachment effort is nothing but a political stunt.
And
for good reason, it is destined to fail.
Brian
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