GOP Senator Rob Portman Delivers Scorching Rebuke of Trump After Voting Against Conviction

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senator Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, released a statement condemning former President Donald Trump following the end of the impeachment Senate trial on Saturday, despite voting to acquit the former commander in chief.

Seven Republican senators voted with all 50 members of the Democratic Caucus to convict Trump for inciting the insurrection against the U.S. Capitol on January 6, meaning the 57 to 43 decision was the most bipartisan presidential conviction vote in U.S. history. However, it still failed to reach the high constitutional threshold of a two-thirds majority (or 67 senators), which would have required 10 additional Republicans to vote "guilty."

Portman, who announced at the end of January that he will not seek re-election, explained in his post-impeachment trial statement that Trump's actions were "inexcusable" but argued that the trial itself was unconstitutional because the former president was no longer in office. A number of GOP senators made the same argument to justify their acquittal vote, although most legal scholars—conservatives and liberals—agree that the Senate trial was constitutional.

"The siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was an attack on democracy itself," Portman said in his rebuke of the former Republican president.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-rob-portman-delivers-scorching-rebuke-of-trump-after-voting-against-conviction/ar-BB1dG35S?li=BBnb7Kz

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Blah blah blah

No censure.

He voted not guilty and there ain't no takesy backsey.

[a kennedy]

13. Exactly, blah, blah, blah, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN IT COUNTED 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Me.]

2. Complicit Enabler Of A Murderer

[Rustyeye77]

3. FURP

Nt

[bottomofthehill]

4. You had the chance and you did nothing

Shut up and go home.

[2naSalit]

5. GONG!!!!

Too late, had your chance, you had one job and you blew it.

[consider_this]

6. hey, Portman...

and those of your ilk.

If you thought it was unconstitutional to have the trial, then you should have not cast a vote on it. You should have abstained or not showed up for the Vote. If you vote, one way or another, you are participating in the trial.

[rickyhall]

7. I don't care he's still a traitor

[stopbush]

8. Coward.

[andym]

9. He should have abstained in that case, not voted "not guilty"

Since he believes it not constitutional, then neither guilty nor not guilty is appropriate, and abstaining or not showing up would have reduced the needed number for conviction-- although I'm not sure about that.

[Ponietz]

10. Methinks much hissing and slithering is yet to come from these inhuman reptiles

[SharonClark]

11. He had his chance to do the right thing and

he chose not to. Who cares what he says now?

[Hekate]

12. What a jerk. Just one question: who have the Dems got to run for his seat? nt

[irisblue]

24. names going around

-Emilia Sykes- Akron area, H
Ohio House Rep

- Tim Ryan-Akron area, current Cong Rep

-Nan Whaley-Dayton area, current Dayton Mayor

-Dr Amy Acton, Columbus area, recently Ohio Dept of Health Director

-Kevin Boyce, Columbus area, former State Treasurer, current Franklin Country Commissioner, he was my rep for several years and I did sone volunteer work for him


these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head

[Hekate]

29. No dearth of people, then. Good!

[oasis]

26. Rep. Tim Ryan is getting a hard look for Portman's seat. nt

[Bluethroughu]

14. Whatever...

He voted party over Country, history will see him as a cowardous jerk.

It won't be, "Benedick Arnold" anymore,

It will be, "what a portman".

[Bettie]

15. So, to recap: January 6th...attack on Democracy Itself

but not serious enough to convict the guy who incited it.

Oh, and he's not even running again so he has no f-ing excuse. He's just a coward.

[onecaliberal]

16. He rubber stamped the action so no.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. Traitor: one who pretends to be loyal while trying to stab you in the back. See also, Republican.

[blueinredohio]

18. That shit pisses me off so bad

I don't even know what to say. Especially coming from Portman.

[Zoonart]

19. Not. Forgiven.

[RandySF]

20. Thanks for nothing.

[EndlessWire]

21. I am so sick of these people!

So, what was that vote for in the beginning? Pizza or burgers? It was already decided to be legal!

I am sick of people in power who cannot think their way out of a paper bag, but let the likes of Moscow Mitch do their thinking for them.

It is especially egregious when you come out and make a statement that he was guilty after all, but you couldn't vote to convict. YOU JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE LEGALITIES OF THE ACTION, and you sure as shit don't understand the Constitution.

Pretty little speeches of, Oh, I just couldn't because he was out of office , is just putting salt on the wounds. This will happen again, but now we have no way to control those that want to be dictators. They are above the law. Do you understand that, you spineless piece of garbage?

Don't piss on our boots and tell us it's raining. We ain't that stupid. YOU ARE ON THE HISTORY LIST OF THOSE COWARDS WHO LET A DICTATOR OFF TO COME BACK AGAIN TO TORTURE US. FU, you dickwad! You have no excuse whatsoever for being a coward.

[Norbert]

22. Yeah, thanks Rob. Whatever.

[3catwoman3]

23. The proverbial day late and dollar short.

Your vote of not guilty was also an attack on democracy, you POS.

[gratuitous]

25. Howz about we judge you by what you do instead of what you say, Rob?

The Constitution (remember that quaint old document?) plainly says the Senate shall have the sole power to try impeachments. If you can't do the job required of you by the Constitution, maybe you need to resign your seat?

[LakeArenal]

27. Yeee-haw, Portman, ride that fence. Wooo!

[BlueStater]

28. At least fellow retiring senators Burr and Toomey did the right thing.

Portman and Shelby can rot in hell. It boggles my mind that Shelby used to be a Democrat 100 years ago.