The article is very eye-opening (but
not surprising) here
from CNN with this headline in case you missed it:
“Trump loses his
impeachment team amid unfaltering loyalty from the GOP”
Retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
said Trump’s sustained ranting falsely about the election and now more so that has
caused his five-member impeachment legal team to resign is bad saying: “There
were not adequate irregularities or fraud, not widespread enough to change the
result of the election, period. We have to acknowledge that this election was
lost and we have to move on.”
The GOP has been irrevocably
changed by Trump's corrosive influence as shown just last week when Republican
members stood by mostly silently and refused to reprimand Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene (R-GA), who should have ended the week in disgrace after CNN's KFile exposed that she previously indicated
support for executing prominent Democrats.
But, instead, like Trump, Greene
has doubled down and escaped largely unscathed, avoiding any punishment from
GOP leaders as she falsely claims to be the victim of a “blood thirsty media.
On Saturday, Greene emerged defiant
on Twitter after claiming to have had a great telephone with Trump, continuing
to spout falsehoods about the presidential election and failing to show a shred
of remorse for her endorsement of violent threats against lawmakers or
offensive and baseless theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting or the Parkland High School shooting.
I Note: The Sandy Hook school shooting took place in 2012. It left 26 dead: 20 children and six adults. Greene has repeatedly claimed that shooting, along with the 2018 Parkland High School shooting in Florida, was staged. She also previously said she believed the Parkland shooting was orchestrated by Democrats to push gun-control laws.
While her conduct gets a pass
from GOP leaders, some Republican state parties and local leaders are rushing
to condemn the GOP lawmakers who dared to vote for the impeachment of the
former President.
The case of both Trump and Greene is the latest example of how the party of Lincoln has become the party of no consequences.
In phrases that could have been ripped from Trump's own permanently suspended Twitter account, Greene has asserted that she'll “never apologize or back down” despite revelations and proof of her conspiracy-laden social media feeds, including liking a comment suggesting that “a bullet to the head would be a quicker way” to remove Pelosi, plus comments about executing FBI agents.
Now Greene announced that she would serve on the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Speaker Pelosi
harshly criticized House Republican leaders for assigning
Greene to the committee, saying: “Assigning her to the Education Committee when
she has mocked the killing of little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School when
she also had mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School (in FL) – what could they be thinking? Or is thinking
too generous a word for what they might be doing? It's absolutely appalling. I
think the focus has to be on the Republican leadership of this House of
Representatives for the disregard they have for the death of those children.”
Trump's “former impeachment legal defense team” that bailed out from him — their story is here:
My 2 cents: I honestly hope that 17 members of the GOP senate can find the courage and honor to stand with the DEMS and vote to remove Trump during his trial (even though he’s already gone from office) and to ensure that he can never run for any public office ever again.
I think the vote will be close… but GOP hardliners are apt to prevail and
that is sad on many levels.
All-in-all I think the
evidence against Trump enforces the need to punish him is overwhelming as stated in the Raskin video remarks at the CNN page link above. But, with this GOP senate, who really knows? We shall see.
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