IT IS A GOOD THING THAT TRUMP WAS ACQUITTED. [View all]

[DetlefK]

Last edited Sun Feb 14, 2021, 05:16 AM - Edit history (1)

1. The GOP wouldn't have voted for impeachment anyways.

2. An impeachment-trial is the wrong format to investigate the Capitol insurrection. You need a 9/11-style commission for that.

3. Republicans have shown during the Trump-administration that you can ignore a congressional subpoena with impunity. IIRC, a court even ruled that Congress has no executive means of enforcing a subpoena but has to sue in court to force someone into compliance.

4. As Jeff Sessions demonstrated, you can refuse to answer questions during a congressional deposition by claiming that you don't know whether your answer would violate executive privilege.

5. There is no way in hell, the Biden DOJ could prosecute anyone for lying under oath in such a MASSIVELY POLITICIZED trial.

6. The Republicans, and especially McConnell, would have dragged out the trial for weeks without any possible change in outcome, all the while keeping the US Senate from enacting Biden's agenda.

For example, now that Trump's impeachment trial is over, the Senate can FINALLY get to work on the nomination of Attorney-General Merrick Garland, which will FINALLY allow a DOJ-investigation of the Capitol-insurrection.

7. The impeachment was largely symbolical anyways. Preventing Trump from running again? Let's see him run again when the SDNY is through with its bank-fraud investigation... or when the defamation-suit with his rape-accuser can finally move forward without being torpedoed by the DOJ... or what happens if Scotland decides that they actually do want a money-laundering investigation into Trump's golf-course... or when the Biden-administration publishes his phone-calls with Putin, or his phone-call with Ukraine, or the unredacted Mueller-report... or what happens when the DOJ finally runs a counterintelligence investigation into the 2016 russian election meddling, something Mueller was explicitly forbidden to do? The Trump DOJ told Mueller to do a criminal investigation only.





Four years is a long time, Trump's closet is so full of skeletons you cannot even close the door anymore, and he is an obese 74yo man with heart-problems and quite likely a degenerative neurological condition that is being kept secret from the public. By the time he runs for office again in 2024, he will be 78 and his heart and his brain will be in an even worse condition.




So, yeah. Trump was acquitted, the Biden administration can finally get to work and the road has been paved for a full investigation by a commission. And that's fine by me.

Edit: Changed title of post.