NYT: Trump Had To Be Dissuaded From Dropping In On His Own Impeachment

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Source: TPM






January 14, 2021 9:55 a.m.


President Donald Trump had to be dissuaded from appearing in person as the House began its proceedings and ultimately voted to impeach him a second time, The New York Times reported late Wednesday.

Advisers told the Times that Trump had to be talked out of going to the House chamber to offer up excuses after he incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.

As lawmakers cast their impeachment votes on Wednesday, an official said that the President instead busied himself by awarding medals to performers such as Toby Keith and Kay Coles James, the president of the Heritage Foundation.

The scene of a president eager to justify his action as “totally appropriate” — as he did to reporters on Tuesday– echoed a similarly defiant Trump who wanted to make an appearance during his first impeachment in December 2019, advisers told the Times.

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geez, that would have been a scene.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: U.S. President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Following last week's deadly pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill, President Trump is making his first public appearance on Tuesday as he makes a trip to the border town of Alamo, Texas to view the partial construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That would be like appearing at your own Grand Jury Hearing.

It just isn't done.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. He really IS as dense as cement and as dumb as a box of hair.

[nykym]

3. Any president needs to be

INVITED, they cannot just show up.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Is it bad of me to wish he had done it?

Maybe more R's would have voted to impeach after seeing him lie to their faces.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Me too.

I think he would've cracked.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. It would have been hilarious, I think!

In a disturbing, dark comedy sort of way.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yep. Like a SNL skit. nt

[Auggie]

19. Exactly

[Progressive Jones]

41. That's what I'm thinking. Surreal as can be. nt

[LeftInTX]

5. That be cray cray

Guess he couldn't summon his insurgent gang

[Mike 03]

6. Just the thought of this is cringeworthy.

[dhill926]

7. 6 more fucking days....

[Botany]

29. It is 5 days, 16 hours, 53 minutes, 59 seconds

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?p0=263&iso=20210120T12&msg=Time%20left%20until%20Trump%20leaves%20office

[dhill926]

40. I feel better with every passing minute....

[exboyfil]

8. Someone has got to do a video of "Proud to be an American"

while your beating a cop to death with an American flag. Come on Youtubers. Deliver.

[tinymontgomery]

22. I would love to watch that.

[louis-t]

10. What, he thought he would 'win them over' with his charm?

[Mme. Defarge]

16. Intimidation.

[LuckyLib]

23. More like, "They are not going to be talking about ME without

ME there in person to defend myself!"

He has such inane belief in his own persuasive powers. That, and needing to be front and center at all times.

[sweetloukillbot]

33. Play victim when they wouldn't let him in

[brewens]

11. Bummer. That would have been priceless! No way he could have kept his shit together.

He most likely would have only incriminated himself further.

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Too bad.

As stupid as he is, he would have further indicted himself and made it almost impossible NOT to convict his sorry ass!

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Another medal? For the Heritage Foundation?

These awards from Trump will always be known as the Presidential Medal of Freedom To Hate and feature a puddle of blood.

Figures Toby Keith would be honored. Trump wouldn't have given him a medal unless he believed him and Keith to be on the same page.

[Borderer]

17. It's a real shame he didn't.

It would have been difficult for all those republicans to vote against impeachment right after hearing him blurt out a confession and threaten to do it again in person.

[Jimvanhise]

18. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR HIM EXPLAIN

I want to know how Trump would explain why he called the November Presidential election "the worst election in the world" as it clearly added to all of the other things said which revved up all of his supporters who were there to support him.

[Marie Marie]

20. Nancy would have, with the utmost dignity, handed him his ass,

and as usual with Trump, chaos would have ensued. HE WILL NEVER GET IT - dumb as box of rocks.

[LittleGirl]

21. I can't wait until the day I never ever

hear his name again. And I hope they stop broadcasting his ugly face.
I can’t wait!

[Evolve Dammit]

36. God yes. Five years and the damage done. Vile thing. His family as well. nt

[ResistantAmerican17]

24. I love the hang dog look on the mofo.... like the

pic after the Tulsa debacle. The more miserable the asshole grifter loser is——the better I feel!!!

[Harker]

25. Only the true believers can hear the music

of his invisible accordion.

[ChazInAz]

45. Here's something I learned about "The Accordion".

I'm very hard of hearing, having been mainstreamed to manage with lip-reading to supplement my damaged hearing. Some of my friends are completely deaf and sign to communicate, a skill I never learned. They tell me that trump's frenzied, uncontrolled gestures while speaking are considered to be a warning sign in the deaf community. A person who flails about like him is seen as dangerously unstable. Anyone who signs like that is to be avoided.

[Harker]

50. Thank you for the insight!

He exhibits so wide and varied an array of warning signs that it amazes me anyone outside his immediate family even cares what he thinks or says.

While gestures, used purposefully, can accentuate speech, flailing around as he does makes him appear as though he's either trying to distract people or convince them he's earnest despite his insincerity.

Either way... yes, he should have been avoided.

[rpannier]

26. Toby Keith and Kay Coles James

That really is scraping the bottom of the barrel

[IsItJustMe]

31. Sad

[Judi Lynn]

32. Sounds like something someone would suggest as a joke. n/t

[secondwind]

27. He has no filters..... zero

[IsItJustMe]

30. Those medals have damn sure lost their value.

[TeamPooka]

34. Just walk on like Bob Hope and the Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. lol

[Totally Tunsie]

35. We'd have to expand his oft used description:

"The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the defendant at every Impeachment".

[barbtries]

37. after all that has happened,

he of course still thinks all he has to do is get in the room with them, or get on the phone with them, and he'll get his way based on the strength of his personality. it is tragic that for so many people that is true, but trump has finally run into reality on his way to the coronation.

[mdbl]

38. I hope he gets convicted and the senate votes him ineligible to run for office

I want to spend as little money as possible on him and his grifter family. We don't need to be giving him a salary and secret service protection. Russia already knows all of his secrets - nothing to protect him from.

[BobTheSubgenius]

44. I'm sure the Proud Boys would fall all over themselves to land a bodyguard gig with the family.

I bet they'd have HUNDREDS willing to 'work' for room and board in the first week of accepting applications.

[mdbl]

49. no doubt.

they can all move to Waco.

[sakabatou]

39. IIRC, he wouldn't be allowed to go in unless invited.

[BobTheSubgenius]

42. Damn!

I'd have paid money to see that. What a spectacle!

He'd have been not only be the first "pResident" to be impeached twice, but the first to be offered a headline gig in a sideshow.

You know...whenever he's available. Early Feb....after 5 to 10, 10 to 20. Whenever, as I said.

[greenjar_01]

43. Trump has to be invited to the House floor

[tblue37]

46. That is true; even to give the SOTU Address, he must be invited by the Speaker.

[Bayard]

47. Probably thought he could intimidate the rethuglican YES voters

[jmowreader]

48. I would have let him in

After he made a speech that sounded very much like Joliet Jake begging Carrie Fisher not to kill him, they could have got way more than ten Republican votes to impeach.