Anyone who reads this and still thinks the trial is unconstitutional is a retard. Those who continue to claim that the trial is unconstitutional (which includes most Senate Rs) are gaslighting, dangerous liars. Any questions? @TheReformRepub1 1/3 tinyurl.com/y5a4txkw
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This is Trump's response to the invitation to appear as a witness at his trial in the Senate. It isn’t a legal argument. It’s utterly contemptible lying and gaslighting--pure Trump.
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Trump’s approval rating is now around 34% (latest Gallup poll), and 63% of voters disapprove of him. And only 40% of Rs want him to run again in 2024.
But the remaining 60% is obdurate, and isn’t going away. As I see it, this is an insoluble problem for the GQP. 1/6
The GQP leadership might be thinking that the voting intensity of the MAGA right is greater than the voting intensity of non- and even anti-MAGA voters, so the party can win by presenting two quite different faces to the world, 2/6 tinyurl.com/y3xfna3e
but voters understand that one faction in a party is going to prevail over the other eventually, and it is clear now that the winning faction on the right is going to be the MAGA crazies. 3/6
A run down of MTGreene’s record of anti-Semitism. It’s quite vile. Since she’s a white Christian nationalist, like much--even most--of Trump’s MAGA base, Greene’s anti-Semitism came w the territory, but it’s sobering to see this collation. tinyurl.com/y4rc7qyn
It seems that MAGAts can tolerate any amount of cognitive dissonance. They don’t object to Jews like Jared Kushner, for example. But that can be explained by their Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism, and there is plenty of anti-Semitism in those groups too. 2/3
What the argument for the unconstitutionality of the trial comes down to is this:
The Senate can convict, remove, and disqualify if there is enough time to conduct a trial after the House impeaches and before the president leaves office, 1/7
but the Senate cannot convict and disqualify him from holding any future office unless he is still in office at the time of the trial. 2/7
IOW 1: a president (or other government official) can be convicted and disqualified for an impeachable crime or misdemeanor that he commits sufficiently early in his term of office, but gets off scot free provided that he does it late enough in his term of office. 3/7
It is a fundamental mistake to confuse congressional impeachment with a civil trial. The two have quite different purposes, and very different rules apply to them. 1/15
For one thing (not the only thing), the Constitution does not authorize Congress to impose the same civil penalties that civil courts can impose. 2/15
Trump--who was a private person as well as president on or before January 6--might well be tried in criminal court now *as a private person* for his actions *as a private person* on or before January 6, 3/15