Yesterday, I spent 5 hours on radio and barely talked about impeachment because it does not matter and is of no great consequence. I can confidently break the news to you today that Donald Trump will not get convicted even as he gets more votes for impeachment from his own party than anyone impeached before him, including himself.
As to why I do not care to spend a lot of time on something that is actually meaningless — well the Democrats themselves are treating it as meaningless. By Chuck Schumer’s own definition for a sham impeachment, this is a sham impeachment.
Nevertheless, here are my candid thoughts on impeachment that I’m sure will trigger everyone.
If the GOP found out Joe Biden pardoned someone and Hunter Biden got a mass pile of cash from that person in the last week of Biden's presidency, you're damn right they'd impeach and have a trial even if it couldn't conclude before Jan 20.
That Republican senators are hiding behind a constitutional argument is the only way they can justify getting through this because Trump can be impeached and convicted and yes he did provoke what happened.
It really wasn't a controversial or minority opinion up until a month ago that a sitting president, if impeached, could be tried after his term expired. There is precedent for impeaching others out of office who were impeached while in office.
Many of you denying Trump provoked this after two months of lying about the election and demanding people fight for him were 100% on board condemning AOC for provoking an attack on an ICE facility with her concentration camp rhetoric.
Trump should be convicted and barred from office. BUT…
It is not going to happen. The GOP will hold the line because they talk about principle, but they're really not that principled. Spare me, neither are the Democrats. They'd be behaving the same way and you'll probably one day see it and deny it when it happens if you are a Democrat.
The GOP should do the right thing and they won't because they're more scared of Trump's voters than everyone else.
All your bile and rage at them should be, in part, directed at the Democrats who decided to engage in emotional theater instead of having a real trial.
Are they subpoenaing Mike Pence as a witness? Nope.
The bison helmeted jackass? Nope.
The police officers? Nope.
They're not having a trial and a year ago Chuck Schumer said not calling witnesses made it a sham.
This is Chuck Schumer's sham.
The bottom line is this: Donald Trump spent two months lying and provoked an angry mob that stormed the Capitol on his behalf with some looking to execute his Vice President. He should be barred from running for office again.
But the GOP won't vote for it out of fear and the Democrats won't actually hold a trial that might persuade them to change their minds because they'd rather use this as a political issue with a helpful media.
If you really cared about this issue, you wouldn't be calling Republicans and demanding they vote to convict. You'd be calling Chuck Schumer and demanding they summon witnesses, including the former Vice President of the United States.
But you'd rather engage in emotionally overwrought tweets that make you feel empowered. Now I can return to ignoring what Chuck Schumer himself defined as a sham impeachment.
Lastly: You're full of crap if you think the public will hang this around the GOP's neck in two years. Did you not notice they just got the GOP within six seats of taking the House? You Democrats will overplay your hands and people will move on to other things by then. If you haven’t noticed, Joe Biden also unilaterally caused a ton of people to lose their jobs in the energy sector and the Democrats have divided their time between dismissing those people and mocking President Trump’s lawyer for being an Orthodox Jew.
This impeachment and that January 6th incident will not defeat the GOP in 2022 and both the GOP and Democrats in the Senate know it, which is why they're all ready to move on and expect to do so by Tuesday.
"Lastly: You're full of crap if you think the public will hang this around the GOP's neck in two years. Did you not notice they just got the GOP within six seats of taking the House? You Democrats will overplay your hands and people will move on to other things by then."
Maybe the public won't remember, but will lots of those people who liked Trump's policies being told by Ben Sasse and Liz Cheney and you that he was the worst of the worst be interested in working with the anti-Trump Republicans for a victory? Not likely. There's a deep division in the Republican party. When you tell people you want their money, help and votes but despise their opinions and the candidates they support, you won't get very far.
One sees that in the comments here of people being tired of being "disrespected" for their view that Trump maybe had a point on the election with all the unlawful voting rule changes that judges and local officials made when only the legislature is empowered to do that. That's a serious constitutional issue. Can the courts break the law when the law is constitutional?
I'm with Sandra ... I'm so over the impeachment, waist of money, whining, media fear hipe .... Biden's playing emperor with his executive order power and everyone is focused on the dog and pony show going on in the Senate, and COVID and how many more masks we need to wear. I'm praying to get through the next 2 years without loosing too much freedom and maybe - just maybe the GOP will wake up. If not .....
I love your honesty, Erick. Thanks.