Toomey: Impeaching Trump Is ‘Clearly Constitutional’

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Toomey: Impeaching Trump Is ‘Clearly Constitutional’

Pam Key 7 Feb 2021

Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CNN’s”State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment was “clearly constitutional.”

Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Just days after the Capitol riot, you came on the show, you said President Trump conducted impeachable offenses, he should resign, he could face criminal liability. Some of your colleagues have said he should be acquitted in the Senate trial on Tuesday. Are you going to vote to hold him accountable?”

Toomey said, “I stand by everything I’ve said, Jake. I still think the best outcome would have been for the president to resign. Obviously, he chose not to do that. Now starting Tuesday, I’m going to be a juror, and my job is going to be to objectively evaluate the very specific article of impeachment that is going to be presented to us, has been presented to us, examine that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to listen to the arguments on both sides and make the decision that I think is right.”

Tapper said, “You’re one of only five Republican senators who didn’t vote to dismiss the trial outright as unconstitutional. Do you think there is any chance at all that 67 senators will vote to convict President Trump in his impeachment trial, or is this over before it even begins? ”

Toomey said, “I think it’s very unlikely. You did have 45 Republican senators vote to suggest that they didn’t think it was appropriate to conduct a trial, so you can infer how likely it is that those folks will vote to convict. I disagreed with their assessment. I think it is Constitutional. I think it’s clearly Constitutional to conduct a Senate trial with respect to an impeachment. In this case, the impeachment occurred prior to the president leaving office. My job will be to listen to both sides of this, evaluate the arguments, and make a decision.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/02/07/toomey-impeaching-trump-is-clearly-constitutional/

[PeteS in CA]

Impeachment, in the Constitution, is for sitting Presidents. Trump is out of office. Therefore the shampeachment is unconstitutional. The impeachment trial in the Senate, per the constitution, must be presided over by the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Chief Justice Roberts will not be presiding. Therefore the shampeachment is unconstitutional.

For ___'s sake, how freaking hard is it for these pols to understand very basic English?!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Where does the Constitution give the Senate the power to try a private citizen, Patty?

[skeeter]

Clearly Toomey has his head up his arse.

Seriously there isn't a day goes by anymore where there isn't at least several examples showing the two sides - the progressive elite vs the rest of the nation - living in completely alternate realities.

[libertybele]

Impeachment, in the Constitution, is for sitting Presidents. Trump is out of office. Therefore the shampeachment is unconstitutional. The impeachment trial in the Senate, per the constitution, must be presided over by the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Chief Justice Roberts will not be presiding. Therefore the shampeachment is unconstitutional.

For ___'s sake, how freaking hard is it for these pols to understand very basic English?!

The left doesn't care whether or not it's constitutional. As long as they can sway public sentiment that Trump was responsible for the riot on the Capitol and he will be punished, it doesn't matter. 

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Toomey: Impeaching Trump Is ‘Clearly Constitutional’

Impeaching Trump with zero evidence clearly is not Constitutional.