U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by triceratops on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:28PM (#25661958)

I'm not doubting they would've voted no even if they'd called witnesses and had a real trial. But (and this is speculation) there'd be a lot more people aware of Trump's corrupt conduct in office and he would've lost by a far larger margin.

Although...who am I kidding. The right-wing media would probably have covered the full impeachment trial in the same way they covered the House impeachment proceedings. Just play a silent video of politicians talking, and have their own pundits say "This is BS we won't even insult you by making you listen to it".

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by jandrese on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:52PM (#25662317)

One of the articles of impeachment was on obstruction of justice. In a normal court that would have been open and shut. The White House was extraordinary and blatant with the obstruction. It was well documented. The conviction on the obstruction charge was voted down by an even larger margin than the collusion charge, which I thought was strange because thanks to all of the obstruction the hard evidence was a bit lacking. They had few documents to work with because the Trump Whitehouse explicitly refused to honor all of the subpoenas they were served.

Basically he knew that the Senate would cover for any crime so long as he delivered the votes, so he ran the place like a mob boss.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ModernMech on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:06PM (#25663964)

The other article of impeachment was on abuse of power, not collusion. It was a nice way of accusing Trump of extorting a bribe.

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