NYT: Trump Had To Be Dissuaded From Dropping In On His Own Impeachment
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
(45,771 posts)It just isn't done.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)nykym
(3,063 posts)INVITED, they cannot just show up.
Irish_Dem
(45,621 posts)Maybe more R's would have voted to impeach after seeing him lie to their faces.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)I think he would've cracked.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)In a disturbing, dark comedy sort of way.
Irish_Dem
(45,621 posts)Auggie
(31,060 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)Guess he couldn't summon his insurgent gang
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)dhill926
(16,234 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)dhill926
(16,234 posts)exboyfil
(17,857 posts)while your beating a cop to death with an American flag. Come on Youtubers. Deliver.
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)louis-t
(23,199 posts)Mme. Defarge
(7,982 posts)LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)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
(10,790 posts)brewens
(13,395 posts)He most likely would have only incriminated himself further.
Behind the Aegis
(53,829 posts)As stupid as he is, he would have further indicted himself and made it almost impossible NOT to convict his sorry ass!
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)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
(50 posts)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
(294 posts)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
(9,999 posts)and as usual with Trump, chaos would have ensued. HE WILL NEVER GET IT - dumb as box of rocks.
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)hear his name again. And I hope they stop broadcasting his ugly face.
I cant wait!
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,777 posts)pic after the Tulsa debacle. The more miserable the asshole grifter loser isthe better I feel!!!
Harker
(13,874 posts)of his invisible accordion.
ChazInAz
(2,535 posts)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
(13,874 posts)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
(24,304 posts)That really is scraping the bottom of the barrel
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Response to riversedge (Original post)
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IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)"The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the defendant at every Impeachment".
barbtries
(28,702 posts)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
(4,972 posts)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
(11,535 posts)I bet they'd have HUNDREDS willing to 'work' for room and board in the first week of accepting applications.
mdbl
(4,972 posts)they can all move to Waco.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)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
(6,477 posts)tblue37
(64,979 posts)Bayard
(21,803 posts)jmowreader
(50,449 posts)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.