Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump
Pat Buchanan
Posted: Jan 12, 2021 12:01 AM
Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death.
On Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a startling ultimatum:
Either Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, declare the president "unfit" for office, and remove him within 24 hours, or House Democrats will vote to impeach him again.
As the Senate, which would have to hear the case and hold the trial, does not meet again until Jan. 19, the day before Joe Biden is inaugurated, what is going on here? It sounds absurd, like rushing to hang a man who is going to die the next day.
But such is the blind hatred of Pelosi's House for Donald Trump.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina suggests holding off sending a bill of impeachment to the Senate for 100 days, to give Biden a chance to get his appointees confirmed, and then indict and convict Trump of sedition when he is a private citizen.
What would be the purpose of impeaching a president who hasn't been president for three months?
Answer: A conviction would strip Republicans of the right to reelect the man who got the largest number of votes in their party's history.
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