History won't acquit Trump
The second impeachment of Donald Trump is history.
The trial that concluded Saturday was not just about whether to remove Trump from an office he’d already left or to ban him from running again, the outcomes described in the Constitution. It also was for history. It was for creating a record of the events leading up to the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6 and detailing what happened on that awful day.
And that record clearly shows that Trump should have been convicted.
The House impeachment managers mounted a convincing case supported by dozens of videos and other evidence that showed how the former president stoked the ire of supporters for two months with his false claims of a stolen election, then lit the match on Jan. 6. They showed the cost of the carnage in terms of the fear felt by those who were inside the U.S. Capitol, the injuries suffered by the officers trying to protect it, and the fractured faith of so many in our democracy. They explained in chilling detail how so many people involved in the counting of the Electoral College votes came so close to danger. The managers also posed raised serious questions about Trump’s despicable failure to do anything to defuse the riot after it had started.
Inadequate defense
Trump’s hapless defense team failed to dismantle any part of the House managers’ argument. They relied instead on falsities, what-aboutism, misdirection, and faulty constitutional arguments. But it didn’t matter. Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate protected him again with the final vote for conviction 57-43, 10 votes short of the two-thirds needed.
Read more: https://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-senate-1.50152732
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