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House Dems Introduce Article of Impeachment
House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against Donald Trump on Monday. It charges the President with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging the crowd at Wednesday’s “Stop the Steal” rally to march to the U.S. Capitol. The ensuing riot temporarily shut down the legislative branch and resulted in deaths. The text follows (click to enlarge):
Before pursuing impeachment, the House will vote on a resolution asking Vice President Mike Pence to activate the 25th Amendment and remove Trump. If Pence does not respond within 24 hours of its passage, the House will consider impeachment.
There are only nine days left before Donald Trump’s presidential term ends.
My quick analysis is that this is all for show. If Speaker Pelosi actually wanted to remove Trump from office before Jan. 20, the House would have voted for impeachment by Friday (or over the weekend at the very latest) and delivered it to the Senate Monday. She doesn’t need to issue ultimatums to Pence, since Congress has the power to remove the President whenever they like.
Pelosi also is well aware that the Senate is out of session and Senate Majority Leader said the earliest they could reconvene is after Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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See https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/08/10-times-democrats-urged-violence-against-trump-and-his-supporters/
Yes, I think it’s all for show.
By that I mean that the expected outcome is to fuel the narrative, which will be supported by the press and social media, that the President has committed an offense that warrants impeachment. Just as many Americans still believe that candidate Trump won the 2016 election because of collusion with Russia, many will now believe that this President behaved so monstrously that he warranted two attempts at impeachment. America has heard for four years that the President is a fascist who subverts the Constitution on a daily basis and presides over a lawless administration. Many believe it’s true, despite clear evidence to the contrary.
Having the arbiters of free speech on your side is a profound advantage.
There is a new low coming from Washington DC. No, not the polar vortex. A blizzard of retribution, and a hailstorm of division. So much for unity, and healing. Never have so many done so little for the American people in the legislative branch.
After three months of politically inspired violence in American cities it visited the Capitol building. There was no excuse for it, but they collected paychecks, and scolded people who lost their businesses due to riots, and lockdowns. Riots for thee, but not for me. Sanctioned violence from the Left, and now comes silencing from the Left. $600 checks that probably wouldn’t pay for Nancy Pelosi’s ice cream, that took 8 months of wrangling to produce.
I don’t approve of the riot on Capitol Hill, but my nonsense and empathy quotient for both Democrats, and Republicans is down to about zero.
There is one time when Rush Limbaugh has been wrong. He said “we don’t go after our ex-presidents”.
We do now.
I agree with your statement that your “nonsense and empathy quotient for both Democrats, and Republicans is down to about zero.” Pelosi and Schumer are no saints,
Pelosi is proving to be a dangerous woman who is risking our nation for her childish agenda.
Well, it would be childish if you don’t understand that she is a communist bent on the destruction of our form of government.
The most disturbing thing about this is Pelosi’s utter contempt for Trump voters and a complete indifference to the political stability of this country. It’s as though she’s doing everything she can to unleash more wind into the storm while she gleefully looks forward to the potential for a hurricane. I don’t understand what she expects to gain, particularly when Trump will be gone in a very few days. Is this about revenge? If so, the American people are the true victims, not Trump.
The House can, of course, impeach and send their articles of impeachment to the Senate. Given the few days left before the inauguration of the vile child fondling, child murder promoter, and international criminal Joseph Biden, it would be impossible for the Senate to conduct a trial because the President through his attorneys would have the right to mount a case, present evidence, and call witnesses – which would take weeks.
Once Biden is inaugurated, the trial becomes moot and an exercise in futility because the Constitution only has a provision for impeaching and removing a President NOT a FORMER President (read this again a few times so it sinks in).
This is simply Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the other rabid and Communist scum of the Democrat Party, and few childish, pouty, spineless, unprincipled, and uneducated Republicans attempting to play out their wet dream fantasies about persecuting Donald Trump because he was mean to them. If they could get away with it, I’m sure they’d all try to guillotine the man…or what was it? Toss him on a bonfire and burn him alive? (Calm down Mr. Long and Mr. Robbins)
On another front, attempting to invoke and enforce the 25th Amendment would be tossing a lighted match on a nationwide vat of gasoline. If the Democrats (and some idiot Republicans) can pause for a moment from their salivating, twitching frenzy, they may want to consider how many millions of Americans are already rightfully incensed about being locked down, not permitted to work, losing businesses, being censored, being ridiculed as conspiracy theorists, have watched their parents, grandparents die because of Democrats gross incompetence in managing the COVID pandemic, and their teen sons and daughters commit suicide in record numbers — and then consider how many of these folks are armed.
Those screaming for the President’s removal or ouster via the 25th Amendment, need to take some deep breaths and go and change their underwear.
What’s a little utter contempt and political instability, when a chance to please the hard left and get some revenge is present?
Seriously, well said.
The ultimatum about the 25th Amendment shows the cynicism/insincerity of this move.
The 25th Amendment has nothing to do with impeachment for official misbehavior. It has to do with physical incapacity. It’s not in any way, shape or form an “alternative” to impeachment.
It is really important to a subset of anti-Trump thinkers that he be delegitimized. It is about revenge. A lot of politics is actually just about making sure elite opinionmakers feel good about themselves, irrespective of policy outcomes. But there is something else to it that does make sense from a process perspective. Part of having social power is being able to decide who can and cannot play, and what the rules are. Impeaching Trump allows Dems to exercise that power, reassuring them, and their political opponents that they have it. (On a good day, they can imagine that they actually had that power all along.) A democratic House being able to put together a snap impeachment on extremely thin grounds is a good show of force to their political opponents.
From appointed office, yes. From elected office, no.
See Alcee Hastings.
Reagan Reagan Reagan. He was a great President, but let’s not worship him . . .
You don’t see that they’re connected?
In this post, I reported what is happening in the House, then said that Pelosi is doing it for show. That’s it.
It’s not really worship. It’s cover.
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Jon, thanks for making the correction.
Bryan, I agree with your point, as well. It is quite possible that the 3 “medical emergency” deaths were caused by the rioting. In addition to the stress possibility, there was tear gas deployed, which could have adverse health effects. There could be other methods of causation. We just don’t know yet, to my knowledge.
I’m saddened the Trump presidency had to end this way. Though I think it imprudent to impeach him with a week or so left, but yes I do think this was an impeachable offense. They finally got the real deal of impeachment against him. The irony is there is no way to run the trial. Ultimately no one is to blame but Trump himself.
And I will say this for the millionth time, I voted for Trump twice and have been a big supporter for four years.
So when I went to the Reagan Presidential Library on my honeymoon long before I ever heard of Ricochet, was that “cover”? When I filed a post from the Reagan Presidential Library, was that “cover” also? https://ricochet.com/678370/archives/the-ronald-reagan-presidential-library/
Yeah I know, I read it, then disagreed with you about it being all for show but rather, corresponding to other issues. If you don’t want to discuss that, fine, but that’s what Ricochet is all about.
I hope you’re right! I don’t think so though. I think the Left and a portion of the Right want to destroy President Trump as a lesson to Trump supporters, in order to return the GOP to the party of good-mannered losers.
Facts have nothing to do with what he posts.
Last time the Pelosi clown did this, we all got Covid. So no I don’t think it’s for show.
Indeed.
If you’re receiving two articles of impeachment, from this government, in roughly one year, you’re doing something right.
Including the editors of Ricochet, apparent by their posting and then reposting an overwrought, premature justification of the Democrats’ conduct. Or perhaps this is part of slowing the day on which the editors expect to be cancelled. Throw enough of us off the back of the sleigh and?
This is correct. We are in a 5th Generation War, a propaganda war. The Dems have a lot of weapons are looking to annihilate all that oppose them. It is not enough to win, you opponent must be humiliated and depowered.
Nanzi did not go to the house. There was a president pro tempore.
I watched the very brief proforma session. Twice. Pelosi wasn’t even there.
All that occured was:
A hypocritical political prayer,
the reciting of the pledge of allegiance,
acceptance of resignation of the Sgt at arms,
swearing in of new Sgt at arms,
two committee assignments,
a submission of 25th ammendment request
an objection to the 25th ammendment request.
Gavel. Adjourned to Tuesday 9am.
C-SPAN narrator even said they expected the articles of impeachment. But no go.
Did they submit the articles on sunday?
Because, just because they wrote their BS on Sunday doesn’t mean anything.
Yet everyone parrots…
Have I missed something? Misunderstood something?
or have we finally Proven the media are Liars?
Pelosi was a no show.