Andrew McCarthy: Trump has committed an impeachable offense

[mystery-ak]

Andrew McCarthy: Trump has committed an impeachable offense

Trump made a reckless speech that incited a throng on the mall, which foreseeably included an insurrectionist mob.

By Andrew McCarthy | National Review

 On Aug. 7, 1974, a trio of Capitol Hill’s Republican eminences, led by Sen. Barry Goldwater, called on a beleaguered President Richard Nixon at the Old Executive Office Building on the White House flank.

The Watergate scandal was in its end stages. Consequently, the meeting was not about presidential decorum, evidence of obstruction, or the finer points of high crimes and misdemeanors. The meeting was about math.

Goldwater, along with his fellow Arizonan John Rhodes and Pennsylvania’s Hugh Scott (respectively, the House and Senate minority leaders), explained to Nixon that his support among Senate Republicans had collapsed.

It was already inevitable that the House would move forward with the articles of impeachment that had been adopted by its Judiciary Committee nearly two weeks earlier.

Now, the only practical question was whether the president could count on more than a third of the Democratic-controlled Senate, where Republicans held just 41 seats. Goldwater, Scott, and Rhodes assessed that Nixon’s support had dwindled down to no more than 15 senators, and probably fewer.

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-impeachment-resignation-andrew-mccarthy   

[catfish1957]

Someone needs to investigation NR's ties to the Lincoln Project.

10 days until his term ends?  Pointless.

[Hoodat]

Trump isn't even mentioned until paragraph 9.  Nowhere does it state the high crime or misdemeanor that is impeachable.

Do these people not get it?  It wasn't Trump's speech that pissed people off.  It's that our Republic is being undermined and that the Constitution and rule of law has been subverted.

[goatprairie]

Someone needs to investigation NR's ties to the Lincoln Project.

10 days until his term ends?  Pointless.

If impeached and convicted, Trump would never be able to run for office again.

[Hoodat]

If impeached and convicted, Trump would never be able to run for office again.

Good luck with that.

[mountaineer]

Insurrectionist mob.  An angry young Sarah Hoyt says not really.

... Over and over again, you condemn Trump and the “rioters.”

NO ONE RIOTED. Not compared to this summer. THERE WERE NO RIOTS. And the protesters were treated with an iron fist and live ammo, btw.

There are videos. I don’t know which ones are still live. They keep removing them. There was no riot. There was a protest. You know, those things that are vital for public health?  ...

I can’t get the order, but we’re about to see: social credit; the banning of conservatives from the internet; branding us as terrorists, just as they’re doing to innocent protesters; show trials; people disappearing; our money confiscated; our houses confiscated; more lock downs, to prevent revolt; more masks to promote alienation; more lies.

When people die in the famine to come, it will be Covid-19 and Trump’s fault and you’ll be required to repeat it publicly. ...

She makes at least one good point. When, during the BLM/Antifa riots throughout 2020, did the police ever respond with live ammunition, except when a rioter first threatened them or someone else with a firearm? We'll wait ...