“All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by bold and radical left Democrats, which is what they are doing, and stolen by the fake news media. That is what they have done and what they are doing. We will never give up. We will never concede.
It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved….Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you…. We’re going to walk down to the Capitol...
and we’re going to cheer@on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong...
Something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Donald J Trump 1/6/21 #ConvictAndDisqualifyTrump
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.@RepRaskin opens the 2nd day of Trump’s 2nd impeachment trial. He says “The Senate is sitting as a court of impeachment on the facts.” He is disparaging Trump’s lawyers’ defense that Trump was an innocent bystander. “The evidence will show that Trump was the incited in chief.”
Impeachment managers will be issuing warnings about the graphic nature of some of the videos that will be shown as evidence. Especially for teachers screening this historic hearing. Raskin refers to 1/6 as “A day that will live in disgrace”. He decried “insurrectionary justice.”
A most haunting line from Jamie Raskin’s opening marks, after he made a solid analogy about Trump being like a fire chief who helped ignite the fire, is this phrase referring to January 6: “a kaleidoscope of sadness and terror and violence.”
Impeachment 2.0 begins with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. It is the court of impeachment. Hear ye, hear ye, it is the article of impeachment against Donald J Trump. Senator Leahy is acting as the chief judge. He is also a witness. And a juror.
Josh Hawley should be ousted as a juror. He is an inciter. And he can take Ted Cruz with him.
A vote is being taken on a new resolution on trial rules. Hawley, Lee, Rubio, Marshall, Rand Paul, Tuberville, Scott of Florida and Scott of South Carolina. Senator Hagerty of Tennessee, too. The resolution changes the timeline of the trial which will now go through every day.
Thread. My life in pictures. Four years of this. Over. Thank the Goddess. Marching for immigrant rights after the hateful Muslim ban, marching for freedom of the press. Marching against the hateful T***p regime. 2017 was an activism year that didn’t stop. 1/
Every January, a Women’s March. Not this year! 2/
Marched to see his taxes. Marched against his 1.5 trillion dollar tax scam, rammed through by #MoscowMitch in the middle of the night. 3/
“A battered nation haunted by sickness, death and division is heading into an epic week in which constitutional principles will triumph over lies and insurrection with the transfer of power from one president to the next.”
“President-elect Joe Biden's shouldering of the presidency on Wednesday will end twice-impeached Donald Trump's four-year assault on truth and tranquility and an administration awash in corruption that tested US democracy to the limit.”
“After four years in which Trump tore at America's racial wounds as a tool of power, there will, however, be a sense of history as CA Sen. Kamala Harris becomes the first female, Black & South Asian vice president sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.”
“Retweeting others, for example, will require an extra step designed to encourage users to add their own thoughts before posting. Recommendations and trends will get new curbs intended to prevent abuse.” washingtonpost.com/technology/202…