57 guilty votes - NOT BAD

[DonaldsRump]

Not a conviction, but not bad at all.

A huge shout out to the House Managers and Nancy Pelosi for a magnificent case. I do think the Senate should have pushed for witnesses and let this go on for a few months. It could do NOTHING but hurt trump.

Anyway, time to move on.

[mucifer]

1. It's a horrible stain on our nation. I am not going to say I know more than the

brilliant Impeachment Managers about how to proceed.

I love all of them. They did great!

But, it's still a stain on our nation.

[sfstaxprep]

2. Time To Move On?

To what exactly? The fact this country is a FAILURE and EMBARRASSMENT?

We're pathetic.

[Rick Rolle]

6. I disagree

The failure and embarrassment lays entirely on the Senators who voted to acquit. The process worked exactly as designed.

The fact remains that the U.S. still has a government composed of freely and fairly elected representatives, who are upholding the law by carrying out their Constitutionally-mandated duties. The failure of 43 individuals to vote to convict Trump does not mean the country failed. It is now incumbent upon the citizens to see that those 43 individuals are voted out of office, in another free and fair election.

[DonaldsRump]

7. I am upset too

They raked HRC over the coals for years on Benghazi, and we let the monster off, at least politically, in 5 weeks after a 5 day trial?

I am hoping that trump will have a day (better, years) of reckoning in the criminal courts.

We must move on and hope for that.

[sfstaxprep]

8. I've Given Up Unfortunately

This country is Dead to me.

[malaise]

3. Agree - 57-43 is a hell of an indictment

Fuck Trump. Fuck McConnell and fuck the traitors. History will record that this monster is guilty.
Bring on the criminal charges now.

[empedocles]

5. Good, important point. '57-43 is a hell of an indictment.' TY.

[Rick Rolle]

4. I'm actually surprised

I didn't expect more than 52 conviction votes. Hopefully, 57 will be enough to pass a resolution under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

It could take a simple majority vote to agree that Trump has "...engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.)