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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.
Eric, I like you and your opinions in general a lot. But you are doing just as much harm as the relatively minor numbers of people who believed every conspiracy theory that came down the pike. You give every appearance of lambasting those of us who did not believe nonsense, but who do recognize the overall corruption of the entrenched politicians in DC and want a major change, even if that change was initially by way of a rather egotistical, pugnacious man who frequently suffered diarrhea of the mouth. I was not originally a Trump supporter. I came around to it. And never have nor ever would be likely to support all his ideas. But the way people aligned against him, and the who and how of it, made me see that we have a bigger problem than I imagined. I strongly disagree with you that he incited any violence. And your insistence that Trump supporters are a bunch of dumbasses who believe in all the assorted conspiracies are not helping anything. I have moved on to figuring out how I can protect my great grandkids from the vile things that the new administration is putting in place that they will have to suffer. I am looking for good people to replace the ones currently in office who are the problem. I am no longer supporting the GOP in general anymore than I would the democrats. So why don't you stop denigrating Trump supporters and start figuring out how changes that would have prevented the fiasco we are stuck with can happen?
I've read and appreciated your insightful commentary for years. It grieves me to be addressed so disrespectfully as a reader. It's seemed to me as if you are maligning us more and more often, and for mere differences in opinion. Thoughtful people can disagree about the soundness of the vote count and whether rallying to support senators in a last legitimate avenue provided to protest the electoral count could possibly be construed as a call for insurrection against the republic whose constitutional protections the assembled hoped to see wielded that day.