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So President Trump has got away with it – no great surprise there. However, there does seem to be a yawning gap between what he, his fellow Republicans (with one Senator as an honorable exception) and anyone looking at the case with an open mind might regard as the truth of the matter.
Did he ask the Ukrainian government to dig the dirt on the Bidens? The evidence says Yes. Did he threaten to hold back on a trade deal with Ukraine until they did what he asked? The evidence says Yes.
And where does that evidence come from? Several sources including John Bolton – formerly one of Trump’s closest associates.
So how come only one Republican Senator accepts that evidence? Could it possibly be that they fear the people who voted for them last time round and who will probably do so again? Hm! I wonder!
The impeachment proceedings in the Senate were supposed to be a trial, with the Senators forming the jury. In a trial, all the jurors are supposed to approach the evidence with an open mind and make their decision based purely on the evidence. But what happened here? The jurors voted not to hear any evidence! They then reached their verdict (with one exception) based purely on prejudice and political expediency.
So what prevents anyone from reaching the conclusion that the whole affair was a complete and utter farce?
Republicans do really support and defend the president whatever he does so the trial ended soon. If the voters think what he did was acceptable then we have a huge problem.
The case can be argued either one of two ways – what he did was acceptable, or he didn’t do what he was accused of doing. The latter argument seems to be extremely doubtful, given the evidence that was not allowed to be presented to the Senate, so that leaves the first one – which you rightly say is extremely worrying.
What he did is not acceptable by any means and it was so serious we knew it as some professionals were so worried that they told what was happening as many people covered Trump. Now, Republicans and some media have been so successful defending Trump that we are doubting if he did something wrong or if he did something at all. It should not be this way, politics should not be a football match where people support his/her team whatever happens but I am afraid it is working like that in this impeachment case. Voters should study what has happened because is very serious, we are not talking about a dictatorship but about the supposed best democracy in the world.
When a person can face impeachment and have their base rally around them (his popularity reached its highest level since he became president – 49%._
I find the global political situation right now to be sad.
The Impeachment trial in the Senate was Constitutionally done accordingly as during the Bill Clinton impeachment.
Surely the point of any trial is to establish the truth of the matter. This one seems to have had the purpose of disguising the truth and pretending that what happened did not.
And what did not happen, Shift and the House managers pretended it did and could not prove beyond reasonable doubt.
The bottom line is, the hated President has done nothing wrong and his impeachment acquittal is justly deserved and is right.
There were plenty of trustworthy people who were ready to testify that Trump did precisely what he was accused of, but they were not allowed to do so. Had this been a proper trial, all the evidence would have been available.
It is very difficult to “prove beyond reasonable doubt” if the proof is not allowed to be presented!
Even without that evidence, Mitt Romney was perfectly clear about what he understood to be the facts of the case – how come none of his fellow Republican senators were convinced?
Therefore, the Democrats had/have nothing.
Absolutely, agree, Country Mama, rally around your Potus, the swamp is being drained bit by bit. Go, President Trump, true Christians are with you, Bless you, sir! ⚖???⛳
I agree you rock Country Mama, say it like it is, President Trump is the best thing that ever hit that unholy, (Pizzagate) Democ-rat infested swamp! Stand by THE MAN.
Utterly shameful. How anyone can even pretend that this was justice is beyond comprehension. America has once again chosen to soil itself in public. It will take a long time and a lot of work for it to regain its former reputation.
I find it interesting that Donald actually said in his State of the Union address that the US was “highly respected again”! I wonder where he got that bizarre idea from?
At the end of the day it depends on factors other than the truth
Here in India it is majoritarianism The present government gets away with ‘murder’ because they have the vote.
That is one of the – admittedly few – disadvantages of democracy. If the majority always get their way, those in the minority become second-class citizens because they can safely be ignored.
In India, a tolerant attitude has in the past allowed Hindu and Muslim communities to live in peace in close proximity, but that situation looks as though it could break down very easily thanks to the majoritarianism that you mention.
There is now this CAA Citizenship Amendment Act that lets the present government to decide who is a citizen and who is not although they keep saying that no one will have to worry Soon we all will have to fill up forms and it is left to the government to reject, accept or put any one under the doubtful category. But some fools ( from the opposition) but pretty powerful see nothing in it.
Protests are going on in full swing and it is the women and youngsters who are leading the protests.
This link has more details https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/assessing-the-anti-caa-protests/article30668015.ece
Thanks for the link. This is a worrying trend.