"President Trump’s conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and most unequivocal terms. This is not a partisan matter. His actions directly threatened the very foundation on which all other political debates and disagreements unfold." judiciary.house.gov/news/documents…
"No enemy—foreign or domestic—had ever obstructed Congress’s counting of the votes. No President had ever refused to accept an election result or defied the lawful processes for resolving electoral disputes. Until President Trump." bit.ly/3j90Uby
"Surveying the tense crowd before him, President Trump whipped it into a frenzy, [and] aimed them straight at the Capitol, declaring: “'You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.'" bit.ly/3j90Uby
No. It's unquestionably moot. The cases did not seek retrospective relief, such as damages, but rather only prospective relief—declarations and and injunctions addressing future conduct. But he can't violate the emoluments clause any more, since he's no longer president.
So not only was the Court right on vacating and dismissing as moot, it actually had no other choice, since the federal courts under Article III only have jurisdiction to decide live cases and controversies.
Nixon got re-elected, too, and won the popular vote twice. The second time, he won by 23.2%, and won the electoral college 520-17—an actual landslide. In contrast, Trump lost re-election, and lost the popular vote twice, both times by substantial margins.
So really, comparing Trump to Nixon is horribly unfair to Nixon.
“I was reminded of Hannah Arendt describing the trial of Adolf Eichmann. ‘The trouble,’ she wrote, ‘was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.’”
“She described this as the “banality of evil”—the willingness of otherwise ordinary people to do extraordinarily evil things.
But the traitors in that violent mob did not act on their own.” democracydocket.com/2021/01/the-da…
“The events of January 6 began much earlier, seeded and spurred on by a deranged president and many of the nation’s most powerful Republican politicians.” democracydocket.com/2021/01/the-da…
He riled his supporters up for weeks with mendacious attacks on the election and our democracy. He promoted the gathering in DC for weeks, and said they would be “wild.” He instigated the attack by telling people to march on the Capitol. .
He reveled in the attack for hours. He praised the rioters and said he loved them. He continued to lie about the election.
And only after his White House counsel and others emphasized to him his potential criminal liability, and only after calls for his removal reached a fever pitch, did he pretend to condemn the violence that he had fomented and praised.