Dereliction of Duty
Senators are voting today on whether or not to call witnesses and ask for evidence in the Trump impeachment trial. In the entire history of our nation, the Senate has never completed an impeachment trial without witnesses. Not once. So far it looks like it’s a tie — 50/50 split. If so, Justice Roberts will either have to break the tie or let everybody go home.
If the Senate lets Trump get away with shaking down a foreign government by withholding promised aid to benefit himself in the 2020 election we could never have another free and fair election in America again. It will be the end of democracy as we’ve known it.
Republican Lamar Alexander said that even though Trump did what he’s accused of doing he’s going to go head and vote to let him off the hook and give Trump absolute power anyway. Lamar supported impeachment of Bill Clinton. Lying about your private sex life is an impeachable offense but lying about using your power to ask a foreign government to help you win an election and obstructing Congress is not.
“A US Senator at the end of his career acknowledges that Trump used taxpayers money, and the US foreign policy apparatus, to smear one of his rivals. He also says it doesn’t matter.” — Anne Applebaum
In the Clinton blow job trial, there were 90,000 pages of evidence and 3 witnesses.
In the Clinton trial, Monica Lewinsky was made to testify but in the Trump trial a long list of people who have first hand knowledge of Trump’s offenses could very well be ignored.
Besides Lamar Alexander, here are the other Republicans who voted to impeach Clinton: Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Mike Crapo, Mike Enzi, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, James Inhofe, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, Rob Portman, Pat Roberts, Richard Shelby, John Thune, Roger Wicker.
Lindsey Graham was a House manager at the time. He presented the case to the Senate.
Here’s what some of the senators who voted to remove Clinton said about supporting Clinton’s impeachment:
“The president’s conduct is a national embarrassment. All he has to do is give us a day of honesty, to come out and say this is what happened.” — Lamar Alexander
“The United States is a nation of laws, not men and I do not believe we can ignore the facts or disregard the constitution so that the president can be placed above the law.” — Richard Burr
“He undermined himself when he wagged his finger and lied to the nation on national TV.” — Chuck Grassley
“I’m on the side that says no person is above the law; that this is a nation of laws, not men; that telling the truth matters; and that we should expect our public officials to conduct themselves in compliance with the highest ethical standards.” — Jerry Moran
“Either he has a reckless contempt for the truth, or he can’t discern the truth from lies. In either case, that’s a miserable commentary on the elected leader of the free world.” — John Thune
We are in the midst of a battle for the soul of our nation right now.
“We’re looking at perhaps the guiltiest president that there’s ever been. The question is whether we’re going to stand up and defend our constitutional order or if we’re going to let him get away with this.” — Congressman Jerry Raskin
“If this isn’t impeachable than nothing is impeachable” — Constitutional law professor, Laurence Tribe
Like the Republicans in the House, the Republicans in the Senate never read the Mueller Report. They blew off watching the impeachment hearings in the House because they weren’t interested. Now they’re about to acquit Trump without evidence or witnesses. This is a dereliction of duty.
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