Victims, eyewitnesses, accomplices, jurors- and spineless cowards

 

It's a good thing justice is blind. The sight of the trial going on in the Senate right now would make the poor lady sick.

This is the first trial in history, as Jonathan Last pointed out earlier today, in which the very same people have been victims, eyewitnesses, accomplices, and jurors at the same time. And despite the compelling nature of the case to be made for Donald Trump's conviction, enough of them are shameless sycophants and spineless cowards without an ounce of integrity that he's going to be acquitted anyway.

If Donald Trump cannot be convicted on impeachment charges after being responsible for an armed assault on the Capitol seeking to prevent the votes of the Electoral College from being certified, impeachment is a dead letter. We might as well remove it from the Constitution, because of Trump is acquitted, it's impossible to imagine anybody being convicted. Ever. 

And here, by the way, is the montage of videos of the insurrection of January 6 presented to the Senate by the House managers today. It will make hair grow on your toenails.

Note that Mr. Trump is so ignorant of the Constitution that he thinks that Vice-President Pence can somehow stop the votes from being counted and the result certified. And note that there is no conceivable way to understand his words otherwise than as incitement for the crowd to do exactly what it did.