Susan Collins's rationale for acquitting Trump aged poorly before she could even cast her vote

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I never once imagined that Trump would apologize and was amazed that so many talking heads were discussing it.





Susan Collins’s rationale for acquitting Trump aged poorly before she could even cast her vote

Collins: Trump has learned from getting impeached. Trump: No, I haven’t.



By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Feb 5, 2020, 10:30am EST



The rationale Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) gave for voting for acquit President Donald Trump aged poorly before she even had a chance to officially cast it.

Following a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday in which she announced she’ll vote to acquit, Collins told Norah O’Donnell of CBS that she believes Trump “has learned from this case” and “will be much more cautious in the future.”

Getting impeached “is a pretty big lesson,” Collins said — the implication being that Trump will be chastened going forward from trying to pervert diplomacy into an opposition research opportunity, as he did with the Ukrainian government.

Collins’s hopefulness about Trump changing his behavior is absurd on his face. Trump has spent five months insisting that a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that’s at the heart of his impeachment — one in which Trump implicitly linked military aid to Ukraine with the country helping him with investigations of his political rivals — is “perfect.”





.....................Indeed, few if any examples of Trump being chastened could be cited, and the timeline of the Ukraine scandal indicates it’s folly for Republicans to believe he won’t try to cheat again. But partisanship is a hell of a drug.




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Collins at the State of the Union on Tuesday. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

[GemDigger]

1. A leaverite is a rock that is smart enough to tell you to leave r ite there and

it is smarter than Susan Collins.

[struggle4progress]

2. "I think Capone has learned his lesson, so I can't see any reason to vote for conviction"

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. she's just another fucking asshole republican

[guillaumeb]

4. She is either a liar, or an idiot.

My own choice is that she is both a liar, for this ridiculous position that we all know she cannot believe, and an idiot for thinking anyone would believe her.

[In It to Win It]

5. I'm sure she also believes her rationale was bullshit

Any rationale saying Trump learns anything is bullshit.

“Trump learns” is an oxymoron

[Blues Heron]

6. I can't believe the pukes had a golden opportunity to flush the turd and didn't

now we all have to endure god knows what from this unleashed monster. thanks pukes.