The House will transmit the article of
impeachment charging Trump with incitement
to the US Senate on Monday
Business Insider,
by
Grace Panetta
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/22/2021 10:58:37 AM
The House will transmit the article of impeachment charging former President Donald Trump with incitement of an insurrection on the US Capitol to the US Senate on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Friday.
Importantly, as Axios pointed out, the Senate is constitutionally mandated to begin a trial for an impeached federal official by 1 p.m. on the day after the article is sent to them, meaning that Trump's trial will begin next week.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 1/22/2021 11:00:17 AM (No. 670386)
Aren't there more important things to do? I swear, politicians are dumb, stupid, venal and just plain despicable.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jimboscott 1/22/2021 11:01:13 AM (No. 670388)
We now fully understand the amount of projection it took to call conservatives 'deplorables'.
25 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/22/2021 11:03:37 AM (No. 670395)
Unconstitutional, irrelevant and does not pass the basic smell test.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
reefdiver 1/22/2021 11:09:57 AM (No. 670405)
Continued revenge against Trump for winning in 2016. They don't ever want another Donald Trump type person ever to be President and are showing the consequences of what will happen to you if you try. Evil people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/22/2021 11:13:49 AM (No. 670411)
Assuming this Soviet style farce continues, will Trump, as a private citizen and not a member of an equal branch of the goobernment, have the right to seek and serve subpenas? Might prove uncomfortable for members of Congress to be subject to legal subpoenas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 1/22/2021 11:16:58 AM (No. 670416)
Typical Democrats: make up the rules as they go. Forget the law, forget the Constitution.
38 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/22/2021 11:23:39 AM (No. 670434)
Then what? Hold a trial to remove him from office?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pearson365 1/22/2021 11:29:06 AM (No. 670444)
Since this unconstitutional action is about removing a sitting president, could it mean that Trump will be sworn back into office? Biden could be appointed a Senator or he could be sent back to his basement. A reinstalled President Trump could then fire VP Harris and name a suitable VP. If this delusional impeachment is allowed, then anything could happen since our Constitution is now meaningless.
Trump should simply file an appeal to Supreme Court to block this travesty. Let Dementia Joe have his Solicitor General argue that impeachment threat is forever, and that Harding and Hoover are next on the list.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
aasilver 1/22/2021 11:45:55 AM (No. 670479)
Next is FDR/ He was a racist and imprisoned Japanese Americans.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/22/2021 11:50:22 AM (No. 670483)
They want Unity.
In the first place this is illegal and Unconstitutional and Trump is guilty of nothing except trying to Make America Great Again. But if the mental midget in the WH really wanted Unity he would pardon Trump and tell Chuck the Schmuck and Nancy Pelosi to shut up about an impeachment.
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I appreciated McConnell's single-minded devotion to confirming conservatives judges (if they turn out, in fact, to be real conservatives) but what he's doing now playing along with this impeachment farce is wrong on so many levels that I will go to Kentucky and help hand out campaign pamphlets AGAINST the SOB if he has the nerve to try to run again. He and his Chinese wife can go to hell..
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 1/22/2021 11:56:16 AM (No. 670491)
Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution that addresses the Senate ,
"Judgement in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than removal from Office AND
disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office honor, trust, or profit under the United States:"
Since President Trump is not in office, removal is mute. And since he can not removed from office by impeachment, then he can not be disqualified to hold office in the future.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mathman 1/22/2021 11:58:50 AM (No. 670495)
Oh, good. A private citizen, not holding a public office, is to be impeached and removed from that office he does not hold.
How many millions of dollars will be spent on this persecution?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/22/2021 11:59:28 AM (No. 670498)
da, da, da, dah, dada, dada da, here comes nancy or will it be schiff or nadler or swallowell or waters or we3ll, you get the drift. the worst bunch of human beings on the planet today. Idi Amin has nothing on this cast of characters.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
john56 1/22/2021 11:59:29 AM (No. 670499)
No Republican Senator (except maybe an observer, they can draw straws to decide who has the bad luck of attending that day or hour) should attend this farce. President Trump should provide only the minimum legal representation he needs. The only time that the 50 Republican Senators should enter the chamber en masse is to vote NO on this farce.
But then, we have Romney, Murkowski, Sasse, McConnell, and a couple more turncoats. The question is whether we will have 17 of them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/22/2021 12:10:31 PM (No. 670519)
Trump is still the most powerful politician in America. McConnell and the Democrats want to destroy him, so he can never run for office again. That is what this is about. If McConnell does not stop this, the Republican Party may as well dissolve, because there will be no members.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 1/22/2021 12:22:13 PM (No. 670533)
No, #1, nothing is more important to the lying, cheating Dems than getting Trump.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/22/2021 12:31:45 PM (No. 670547)
#5 has a point. Rather than dismiss this with contempt it deserves use it as an opportunity. Appoint Giuliani, Powers and Wood as the defense team. Use the official discovery process to subpoena the rascals and force them to testify.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 1/22/2021 12:45:14 PM (No. 670575)
Really? It takes four days to walk from one side of the capitol to the other? I guess Schumer's -rection got in the way.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/22/2021 1:02:53 PM (No. 670599)
The defense of this charge should be simple. If Trump had led an actual insurrection on the US Capitol, then those now charging him and most of those waiting to conduct a trial would be dead.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/22/2021 1:13:19 PM (No. 670613)
This is not who we are!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/22/2021 1:15:42 PM (No. 670620)
They truly think their own actions will not be used against them or a democrat president. Even Dershowitz says the constitution prevents them going after a private citizen, no to mention the whole timeline they are relying on has been thoroughly debunked and by the WaPoo at that. How detached from reality are these people?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rama41 1/22/2021 1:33:21 PM (No. 670639)
Trump was impeached with zero evidence. Let's have the evidence in the Senate, to include Facebook and Twitter's role, Parler's non-role, failure of the FBI, Capitol Police, Secret Service etc. to respond given what they knew in advance, reports on what they knew, who in fact was behind it, the shooting of the Trump supporter, the false charge of Trump's "insurrection" (which is what it's all about), Democrats' theatrical over-reaction in calling out and then disrespecting and mistreating the National Guard. Let's have some theater of our own in the Senate. And drag it out. What ELSE have we got to lose?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/22/2021 1:35:32 PM (No. 670641)
Didn't the WAPO already admit he didn't incite the Capitol matter?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Pearson365 1/22/2021 1:40:54 PM (No. 670648)
Forgive 2nd post. If Trump asks the SC to stop this madness and the Supremes either refuse to hear his appeal or after an expedited hearing rule against Trump so that Pelosi and Schumer can conduct a Senate trial, we will be essentially be living in a police state. With illegal aliens, a certain minority, BLM, Antifa and elite Democrats exempt from obeying the laws enforced by the Dems.
And we thought 2020 was the worse year imaginable.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/22/2021 1:41:22 PM (No. 670649)
Since when does the Senate have the right to have a trial against a private citizen?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
jinx 1/22/2021 1:50:55 PM (No. 670655)
Using the same criteria, can we impeach Maxine Waters for inciting violence during the campaign. Can we impeach Hillary and Obama over the Benghazi fiasco even though they are out of office? Where does it end? They may be opening a pandoras box.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/22/2021 2:04:22 PM (No. 670668)
Schumer will be fool enough to schedule a trial - in the spirit of UNITY!
McConnell should make clear there will be no Republican participation. No House defense team ought show, either.
Chief Justice Earl Warren Roberts should refuse to preside over an act not authorized by the Constitution.
PDT should refuse to acknowledge the entire episode. No angry tweets. No comments.
Let's see if the GOP has the gonads...and when the GOP takes the House I would suggest an impeachment of Obama.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
heartlandmom 1/22/2021 2:28:11 PM (No. 670687)
Based on Liz Cheney's reasoning, I guess Bush & Cheney could both be impeached because they lit the flame of "war". Remember the incident of prisoners on leashes--Cheney is at fault because he lit the flame of
war! Guilty. Treason!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/22/2021 2:32:58 PM (No. 670694)
Abuse of power. Congressional leadership must be tarred and feathered for letting this go on.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/22/2021 2:38:15 PM (No. 670704)
You got to remember the one thing that the wimpy Republicans are expert at, and that is committing political suicide. Here we have Trump, a man who is supported by over 75 million Americans that comprise about 90% of reliable Republican voters until now. With the lead Republican politician in the Senate, McConnell who media reports claim wants to effectively throw Trump out of the Republican Party, because McConnell on January 6th got the crap scared out of him by an unarmed mob of morons consisting of several hundred extremists who illegally gained entry to the Capitol building after he and Pelosi, as the two ranking politicians in Congress, failed to ensure the security of the Capitol when a massive political protest of over a hundred thousand Americans from all over the country was scheduled to take place nearby. On top of that law enforcement intelligence reported beforehand that extremists were expected to infiltrate the crowds to cause trouble.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 1/22/2021 3:18:49 PM (No. 670765)
UNITY
How is this even remotely constitutional?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 1/22/2021 4:37:22 PM (No. 670835)
#5 & 18 may be on to something. "Impeachment - The Upgrade" is a product of ACME Legal Services, Inc. This could be the mother of all lemons making the mother of all lemonade.
The Swamp/Deep State, confident in their power, set up a kangaroo court on spurious charges with no authority. Based upon Bible stories, the canon of world literature and Hollywood movies from the golden age; manufactured persecution of heroes usually ends in the destruction of the bad guys. Just sayin'.
Beep! Beep!!
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They can't let him go. Trump is too important to them. Good reliable skapegoats are hard to find, and the Democrats are addicted to blaming others of everything wrong with the world every day of their miserable lives. Without someone to blame, the Democrats will be vulnerable to the coming disasters that the incompetents in the Biden administration will inflict on this country. They need Trump to deflect the blame that will inevitably be coming their way.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/22/2021 5:45:30 PM (No. 670900)
Ooooh, I hope Nancy is wearing that tight black dress again. You know, because she's sad and impeachment is a serious thing.
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