House impeachment managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., walk out of the Senate Chamber in the Capitol at the end of the fifth day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, in Washington. The Senate has acquitted Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, bringing his trial to a close and giving the former president a historic second victory in the court of impeachment.
The outcome after the uprising leaves unresolved the nation’s wrenching divisions over Trump’s brand of politics that led to the most violent domestic attack on one of America’s three branches of government. Even after voting to acquit, the Republican leader Mitch McConnell condemned the former president as ‘practically and morally responsible’ for the insurrection. Trump could not be convicted because he was out of office, McConnell contended.
Trump’s lawyers countered that Trump’s words were not intended to incite the violence and that impeachment is nothing but a “witch hunt” designed to prevent him from serving in office again. In closing arguments, lead prosecutor Michael van der Veen fell back on the procedural argument that Republican senators have embraced in their own reasoning of the case what he said is a “phony impeachment show trial.”
Regardless of what the trumpists have done deals for, this feels like it’s going to be like OJ, everyone knows he did it, gets away with the criminal trial, but the civil action is going to smash him. Every one of those rioters who get jail time are going to sue him...
Wtf Mitch?
FACTS: On Jan6'21 during US🇺🇸Capitol Trump mob rioters attack: ❌EX-PRESIDENT TRUMP:🤩Delighted.Proudly LOVED♥️THE🚫'PATRIOTIC' TRUMP MOB rioters! 🆚 👮♂️OFFICER HODGES: DCPoliceDept SCREAMING IN AGONY as he was CRUSHED in a doorway during the Capitol riot.
We no longer have a Democracy when laws only apply to some of us!
So awful but not surprising. Very disheartened though. Hoping for better days ahead. Stay safe.
Spineless43
I agree.
So long, bye-bye, better luck next time you bitter, old crone. OrangeManRad
So fucking what
🎵Money money monay 🎶 All members of Congress have to sell their morals and beliefs..
War is when the Government tells you who we are fighting Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself AmericavsDCswamp
Republicans are acting like a criminal organization - unsurprising given Trump's crime boss aspirations.
how much has the x twice impeached president offered Stitch Mac to acquit him?
14th Amendment. Section 3. Majority vote. Disqualify Trump. Now.
Turtle: “he’s a piece of shit, now excuse me while I gobble his nob”
Thank you for standing & working hard with truth & safety into our constitution & for our America 🇺🇸 You did your job! God bless each of you. Gods not done! Trump will be held accountable. May God wake people this evil hold. Amen
Thank you managers for standing up with backbone defending our country with truth. Criminal charges should be a strong focus in our courts. Gods not done here. You did wonderfully! Thank you for you heartfelt efforts. Rep party is weak & scared. CHANGE will occur! For better🇺🇸
Sen. Mitch I assume you’ll follow thru with your words & help this criminal action take place. You & the other republicans could’ve done what’s right. The American 🇺🇸 people who unfortunately seen this violence live. Horrid! & knowing Trump is dangerous & his dangerous followers!
Disgusting
C'est un lâche
🤔 “practically and morally responsible “ = acquittal
This is not the healing I was promised
MyOtterName As usual from the calculating Mitch, too little too late.
'Not guilty.' 20 minutes later... 'He's guilty as hell.'
Basically they was just looking at it as not giving the Democrats a “win”
Next to be voted out Trump was surrounded by traitors
etuckerAP History will show this election was BS, that media coverage of Trump, hateful, ignored pedophilia of Hunter & Joe Biden ,their link 2 corruption in Ukraine/Paid for what?1.5 billion China payoff. 4 what? FU, ya motherfucker
Sad GOP knows Trump is guilty but to save their own skin they let him off. People like that is why Hitler rose to power. As a country we have a decision, people can foolishly think a dictator like Trump will keep their rights or realize only in Democracy are we free.
MITCH, HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? KNOWING YOU SOLD YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL?!?!MoscowMitch MitchMcConnell ComplicitCorruptGOP
States with both Senators failing to convict Trump: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, SC, SD, TN, TX. Seven of the Confederate states still Confederate in 2021.
I always said Trump will be the death of America, and he is.welcome to the world where no one is accountable and politics is all about getting even. Fuck the RepubliKKKan party forever
Yeah GFY Mitch
Who's currently the most respected politician right now?
I hope Canada & MX will open their borders to Americans fleeing mass terrorism on behalf of the monster the GQP just unleashed today.
lies are about keeping control.. exposeHATE4PROFIT time to DefundFASCISTS BANKRUPTtheTRUMPS and ALL who supported them. Accountability is key in 2021!!
Then the Senate is corrupt. 🙄
JeriLRyan LeaderMcConnell is the personification of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Trust him at your peril.
Turtle face is nuts... WTH?
JeriLRyan WTF
One of the problems of the GOP...hypocrisy as seen in the cowardice of Mitch McConnell,
JeriLRyan 43Traitors
JeriLRyan Then why not just inp....... fuck it
Practically and morally responsible? Well that describes Mitch McConnell today too.
He disgusts me.
Keep your peace Mcconnell. Students will come to you to endof days to make you explain your yabadabadou
McConnell as part of the43 decided to let Trump go free long before first impeachment opening argument & now trying to justify. Real GOP better find way to reclaim the old GOP. More proof now than ever before that the43 are truly Trump’s disciples- who they serve at any cost.
Have no doubt: Vote not to convict Trump announces Republican Party seeks end to our Constitutional Republic. GOP has paved way for Donald J. Trump in 2024 to lead another Capital insurrection to forcibly seize Presidential Certification & begin a Republican authoritarian regime.
Say 'I'm a gutless chickenshit' without actually saying 'I'm a gutless chickenshit.'
So now LeaderMcConnell talks out both sides of his mouth!! He should be ashamed of himself
His opinion is of no concern, he voted to acquit, he doesn’t get to play both sides now.
LeaderMcConnell I wonder any of her 3 daughters can look into his eyes and said I am proud of you, Dad today!!!
What’s the collective noun for a party of cowards GOP
How in the world does someone like senator McConnell votes to acquit and then goes on to blame former president trump for being responsible for the attacks from the mobs on the CAPITOLLLL!!!!!! I don’t get it.
I heard bitch McConell condemn donnie boy, yet he voted not guilty. I felt like I was propelled into an alternate universe. That was the worst flip flop ever.
57 GOP Senators are thanking Heaven that they have to wear COVID masks so that they have an excuse to hide their faces from the public.
sorry Mitch. You can't have it both ways. You failed
And there you go.
Responsible, but not guilty?
Cowtow. You’re done bro
GOP with LeaderMcConnell and GOPLeader saying loudly and clearly that President Biden won the election, and hopefully include fairly not “stolen.” Otherwise the door remains open for T***p to further incite his base, their violence and insurrections.
How can you can say Trump is 'practically and morally responsible' and then vote not to impeach. This hypocrisy is breathtaking.
This is like Tom Brady deflating footballs. What a joke! You mean to tell me the senate voted against National Security?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. whiteprivilege
So he can verbally admit Trump is guilty but has no ball or integrity to sign on it?
Lol wut
🤨
You're a very controversial politician Mitch. You think you're smart by condemning Trump but you're still one of his ardent followers.
Then why the fuck vote to acquit?
Today, Feb 13, 2021, in the long run of history, will overshadow the events, however tragic, of Jan 6, 2021. Why? Because on the former the United States of America was attacked but on the latter the USA as a beacon of democracy, fairness, and justice succumbed to those injuries.
The holy seven the Republicans who had enough back bone to sand up for the right thing. The rest are still trying to take over the trumps base. The base of hate, the base of fear, the base of chaos. Where will the campaign money come from now. Nobody wants their money with satan
I have been VINDICATED! This impeachment was nothing but a WITCH HUNT! The charges were FLIM FLAM! When I encouraged former Confederates fight like hell against the Freedmen and Congress, I meant for it to be PEACEFUL! I did big things! I Made America Constructed Again! MACA
Andrew Johnson survived the first Presidential impeachment by one vote. He later returned to serve in the Senate. The damage he had done to the country was clear and lasting. President Grant was left to battle a rising tide of extremism. Listen now to “1865.”
But he Mitch has no guts
How about when KamalaHarris preached about how they were funding bail for George Floyd rioters? That's absolutely a green light for them to run amok, cuz they'll have back up.
Don’t give him press other than say he voted on the side of insurrection that is his legacy
The unfortunate truth is the government leaders care more about themselves than upholding the oath of serving honorably, ethically, and for the people.
So this clown thinks he is above one of the highest level ls of authority in the country, interesting.
It can't be both.
and McConnell's not - he owns him for all of history - majority of Americans are over 45 - Americans need relief from Covid, let's move - did read large number storming Capitol were themselves in financial ruin and even more so now that they're facing FBI managers were great
Does anybody know if a full investigation is planned regarding lax security measures on Jan.6?
Hey Mitch that means he incited the riot. You are chickenshit against Trump
wtf!!!
He Basically laughed.
LeaderMcConnell is is putting icing on a turd and feeding it to his gop
The party of personal responsibility, everyone.
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Waste of fucking time.
Trump is practically and morally responsible. Trump is also operationally, technically, legally, and financially responsible. Trump is guilty. McConnell and 43 republicans are also guilty of not assessing the facts, the law, or their oaths.
We need to look at how these districts are drawn and the politicians representing those areas. Then we 'move' there to change the disturbition of the vote and get them out of office, redraw the district, and actually have a functioning government.
Boring circus with unfunny clowns!
He could have voted that way!!!
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Again people , it wasn’t about DT , America , right or wrong . It’s about the GOP saving face . They cannot have a twice impeached president under their banner . McConnel just verified that . The GOP is a corrupt spineless party of old men who aren’t willing to fade away .
43 GOP(Goons Of Putin's) Senators have just made the streets so unsafe by supporting this pro-communist trump, his terrorists, gangsters, militia, and Q will now know that they are free to engage in violent attacks if they don't get what they want with full support of the GOP
They were all guilty. They knew if he was convicted the witch hunt would start...Obama, Clinton, Biden... the door would open and would never be closed again! They all learned a lesson: people are listening! Be careful for what you ask for - you might get it!
Setting tRump up for criminal prosecution with real rules and consequences.
Watch LeaderMcConnell does, not what he says.
Mitch McConnel spoke eloquently and with great dignity
LeaderMcConnell a lot of good it did America. So disappointed in GQP.
Pick a lane Mitch
Well MoscowMitch, that is what is known as contradictory statements, look it up in the dictionary, I'll wait while you go buy one.
We can see his hypocrisy. He’s the worst.
Adios Amendment 14, Sec 3⁉️ Why don’t elite Dems care about Trump in 2024?-No Justice Today or last few yrs. Been building,Dems missing mark. Elite refusing 2 go hard. Covid brutally exposes inequities. USA divided, even work settings. Safe/Unsafe -14 Amendment Sec 3 erased⁉️
If I were CEO or investor of Facebook, Twitter and the rest, I would start selling the shares. The truth always comes and Trump tomorrow begins his election campaign. Let's welcome the new Trump administration.
Shameful but not surprising
No other way to say it is but I hope they get a motherfucking head Cracking one day no matter how old they’re 🙏🏿 real talk.
ACQUITTED
Dems are soft as butter on a hot July day. No witnesses? RUFKM Unforgivable and weak. No balls no heart no bravery. Beyond a disappointment is an understatement. They need ro resign. Soft leadership is like having no leadership. WTF bro....
Democracy failed
I’ve officially lost faith in the entire American system.
So you can talk out of both sides of your mouth. Impressive.
McConnel IS the DC Swamp. Senators prioritize political careers over all else. Term limits should have been in place a long time now
Two things can be true at once. Trump’s actions can be terrible, and his actions can also not meet the legal definition of incitement.
This reminds me Shakespear's 'Caesar' when Antonius told the mob 'Brutus didn't kill Caesar....Brutus killed the Tyrant...' 😁
Gutless Mitch, talking out his ass, cant have it both ways
Trump has been acquitted, and America will never see another impeachment trial, ever again, because if the incitement of the mob riot at the Capitol was not impeachable, nothing is. America, as we know it, is coming to an end. QAnon, and the Cult of Trump, have prevailed.
The good news is - The Best is YET to come... 19
As Majority Leader McConnell he said 'Trump was within his rights to contest results' certified results. He deferred the trial. No constitutional logic or principle here. Pure political expidiency. We saw it with Garland vs Barrett nominations. Were it Biden or Obama he'd convict
Vote his ass out!!!
Republicans don't have the balls to impeach him. Trump has cheated all of his life and gotten by with it. He can buy his way out of anything. Sad what America has come to.
Moscow Mitch is not allowed to vote yes. He is owned by Trump.
Moscow Mitch is morally bankrupt
Evidently there is a January exception when the party of the president is in control of the senate. LeaderMcConnell announced he would not recall the senate to try the case. We would wait until regular session on 1/19. His arguments are disingenuous at best.
Ummm...
This is LeaderMcConnell claiming we should hold criminals to a higher standard than a president. GOPComplicitTraitors GOPCowards
mitchthebitch
Yet Mitch was morally deficient and didn’t vote his words.
That’s a contradiction, useless words.
Next stop.. prosecution. 🇺🇸 justicematters
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