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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 04:07 PM Feb 2021

Analysis: Trump's Senate trial matters regardless of outcome

WASHINGTON (AP) — This matters.

The outcome may seem preordained in the unprecedented second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

Democrats prosecuting the former president for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will struggle to persuade at least 17 Republicans to convict Trump and bar him from office. Forty-five of the 50 Republican senators backed a bid last month to dismiss the trial, essentially telegraphing how the final vote will play out.

But the trial set to begin Tuesday is ultimately a test of whether a president, holding an office that many of the nation’s founders feared could become too powerful in the wrong hands, is above the law. Senators will be forced to sit still, listen to evidence and wrestle with elemental questions about American democracy. There will be visual, visceral evidence, and the American people will also be sitting in their own form of judgment as they watch.

The verdict and the process itself will be scrutinized for generations.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-trials-impeachments-trump-impeachment-michael-pence-187a66133bc8932db712d71f6ef714a8

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Analysis: Trump's Senate trial matters regardless of outcome (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
Thanks, Yo_Mama. This is so on the money! hedda_foil Feb 2021 #1
+1 n/t ariadne0614 Feb 2021 #3
It would be to the Republicans' benefit to convict Trump. livetohike Feb 2021 #2
The GQP is on trial. "the American people will also be sitting in their own form of judgment" lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #4

hedda_foil

(16,368 posts)
1. Thanks, Yo_Mama. This is so on the money!
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 04:27 PM
Feb 2021

I've been saying that the dumpsters reign will launch a million PhD theses. This impeachment trial is critical to the historical record.

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
2. It would be to the Republicans' benefit to convict Trump.
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 04:30 PM
Feb 2021

He may be able to start a third party, but he could never run for office. Since he’s a narcissist, he’d give up the third party idea. I don’t see him being able to support anyone that isn’t him.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
4. The GQP is on trial. "the American people will also be sitting in their own form of judgment"
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 04:52 PM
Feb 2021

Americans will judge the GQP harshly for their complicity. They will live to regret their crimes.

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