I could not agree more. Leaving Donald John Trump is a danger to the country. The US Senate is under a delusion. People like Lindsay Graham thinks they can control Trump. Pence thought the same thing as President of the US Senate. He was unable to carry out his delusion as well.
January 30, 2020
By Noah Feldman
As Republicans scramble to argue (click here) that they don’t need to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, one argument seems to be gaining traction: that witnesses are irrelevant, because even if Trump did everything he’s accused of doing, abuse of power is not an impeachable offense.
This argument isn’t merely wrong. It is the single most dangerous argument that any of Trump’s defenders have made during the entire impeachment process. If abuse of power isn’t impeachable, what is?...
Lamar Alexander:
...There is no need for more evidence (click here) to prove that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter; he said this on television on October 3, 2019, and during his July 25, 2019, telephone call with the president of Ukraine. There is no need for more evidence to conclude that the president withheld United States aid, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; the House managers have proved this with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming evidence.’ There is no need to consider further the frivolous second article of impeachment that would remove the president for asserting his constitutional prerogative to protect confidential conversations with his close advisers.
The question then is not whether the president did it, but whether the United States Senate or the American people should decide what to do about what he did. I believe that the Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday....
What is sincerely troubling is the fact that Senators like Lamar Alexander admit the facts are clear and Trump clearly used the power of his office and the withholding of military aid to Ukraine to lean on the President of that country. YET. He continues to dismiss this violation of laws including the power of the legislation.
The question then is not whether the president did it, but whether the United States Senate or the American people should decide what to do about what he did.
The American people EXPECT the US Senate to protect them from abuse of power. There is nothing stopping Donald John Trump from continuing his bizarre ideas and abuses of power. As a matter of fact, Alexander completely believes in the abuse of power, but, thinks it is no big deal.
The American people do not expect to be exposed to abuse of power, but, yet Alexander believes it is okay to allow that to happen without knowing to what extent that will occur for the next year and clearly into at least the third week of January 2021. It is an outrage to believe that abuse of power continuing one more day should ever be allowed in this country!
The US Senate also threw away their own power in ignoring rather than enforcing the power they have in protecting funding provided in their power of the purse.
No rational human being would allow this to occur and dismiss it even though the legislature in the US House found the abuse an assault on the power of the Legislature.
The US Senate is a joke!
The president does not have absolute immunity (click here) UNLESS the US Senate is too cowardly and allows it as they have if Trump remains in office! Donald John Trump is making fools of the US Senate!
Moscow is laughing today.
