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February 9, 2021
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If you have a strong stomach and want to watch the Senate impeachment "trial" that starts Tuesday, THE RIGHT SCOOP is carrying it live, starting at 12 noon EST.

This gigantic embarrassment to our country will likely stretch into next week, with one break. Since one of Trump’s lawyers, David Shoen, is Jewish, he has requested that the “trial” be suspended by 5PM on Friday and re-convene on Sunday.

As laid out by the NEW YORK POST, the sham proceedings on the first day will go on for up to four hours, with the time divided equally between House impeachment managers and Trump’s attorneys. This is when they’re going to argue for and against the constitutionality of the proceedings before the trial begins, so be prepared for a lot of lies and false accusations about Trump.

Yesterday, we talked about what Jonathan Turley and other legal experts have had to say about this “trial” --- notably, its lack of constitutionality. Trump’s lawyers will be making those same points today. Since the Democrats don’t have the law on their side, and they know it, be prepared for a hate-filled, Jake Tapper-like focus on Trump the man. Realize that the House managers can say anything they want about Trump (and his supporters) on the Senate floor, and no one can do a thing about it.

The tone of their argument will be like this: Who needs to follow legal standards and precedent and offer even the most basic rights when it’s the evil Trump who stands accused? Why, this was a “coup” staged by him and a pack of domestic terrorists to overturn a “perfect” election and the will of the American people. We HAVE to circumvent the Constitution in this case to protect our democracy!

And Biden talks about “unity.” It occurs to me that there are actions we could have impeached President Obama for --- when he was still in office --- but we didn’t. I suppose that if it’s okay to impeach a President after he’s left office, Republicans in Congress could put together a list of charges against Obama, including things we learned about after he was out, and simply wait for a House majority. So far, we haven’t let Democrats drag us down to that level, and we shouldn't, but if they insist on treating Republican leaders this way, “revenge politics” could become the norm and the whole system would crash.

But Trump’s lawyers released a very positive statement, expressing appreciation that “Senate Republican leadership stood strong for due process and secured a structure that is consistent with past precedent. This process provides us with an opportunity to explain to Senators why it’s absurd and unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial against a private citizen.”

Trump IS a private citizen. And with everything they’ve thrown at him, and even a bout with coronavirus, he seems as energetic as ever. When I think of them impeaching Trump NOW, when he's gone, and how ludicrous and surreal that is, I imagine him grooving to that song by the Eagles…

"And I’m al---ready gone

And I’m fee—eeelin’ strong

I will sing --- this vict’ry song

Woo-hoo-hoo...woo-hoo-hoo!”

Anyway, the Senate will end their first day with a simple-majority vote on constitutionality, which will probably come out the same as the 55-45 vote they’ve already taken. As Sen. Rand Paul has pointed out, this vote already tells Democrats that they don’t have the votes to convict, even with those ten "Republican" senators who voted to let this farce go forward.

Since this vote will really be just a formality, we assume that starting at noon on Wednesday, each side will present its case in up to 16 hours of “trial” spread out over two days. Neither side can go over eight hours total. After the opening statements, senators will have up to four hours to ask questions. If the House managers want to subpoena witnesses and documents, up to four hours will be allowed for arguments. Or, if they decide not to go that way, the “trial” will shift to four hours of closing arguments, additional time for deliberations as requested, and a vote.

Again, Democrats can say anything they want about Trump during opening and closing arguments. They don't need evidence to back it up. This might be their last big opportunity to trash him in such a formal setting, with TV cameras, so they'll pull out all the stops. Imagine the worst lies ever told by Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Chuck Schumer, combined, and make that to the tenth power.

(It occurs to me that you really might not want to watch this. You know what we say here: "We watch the news...so you don't have to!")

Speaking of Sen. Shumer, he said of this process that “if the former President is convicted, we will proceed to a vote on whether he is qualified to enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” Schumer is talking about whether or not Trump is to be disqualified from running for President again, but constitutional scholars have said that the presidency is not an “office of honor, trust or profit.” Those are APPOINTED positions. The writers of the Constitution did not want senators to be able to override voters on their choice for elective office.

So --- hypothetically speaking, as the necessary 2/3 vote to convict seems unachievable --- if they did convict Trump and “disqualify” him from holding elected office again, the Supreme Court would have to decide if that was constitutional, and it almost certainly would not be. Most likely, in the end, the House and Senate will have wasted a week (and much more prep time) on this stagecraft, just to enjoy railing at an empty chair where their collective hallucination of Trump is sitting, and then they’ll vote, their vote will fall short, and it will be over.

Until somebody tries some other way to get Trump.

Does this whole thing sound psychotic to you? We agree with Roger L. Simon: it's pathological.


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  • Keith H Beavon

    02/09/2021 11:31 AM

    This brings to mind the adage:
    If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts.
    If you have the law on your side, pound the law.
    If you have neither on your side, pound the table.

  • Phyllis W. Cooper

    02/09/2021 11:27 AM

    I hope that someone will post the dollar amount spent on this impeachment hoax. This is a waste of the House of Rep's, Senate, and Trump's attorneys time. It is a waste of tax payers money. There is so much more productive work that they could be doing. How about let us impeach Biden for signing executive orders that he does not even know what is in them, he just signed because Kamala told him to do so!!!

  • JBTX

    02/09/2021 11:23 AM

    Yes it is pathological. Hatred is that way. Revenge is that way. It is also about showing the people behind this nonsense for who and what they are. It is a sad state our country is in, now. Only with God's help, can it be righted. Praying for our nation and it's citizens. All of them.

  • Patsy Sue Smith

    02/09/2021 11:22 AM

    Before they try to crucify President Trump, tell them to dig up on crooked Biden, Clintons affairs in the White House & Obama wasnt even from the US......& Biden & Harris are for killing 8 lb babies, which is murder...hes out of his mind.....

  • Donna Marshall-Ziehm

    02/09/2021 11:08 AM

    There is no way that I would watch this fiasco. The left wingers rigged the voting process and made sure that Trump would lose the election and that Sleepy Joe and his band of Socialists/Communists would win and turn this wonderful country into another third world country. This is what Obama meant when he said "he wanted to fundamentally change the United States of America. Under the current government, we will be going back to the Obama era and beyond. The late, great United States of America and the freedoms for which it stands will be taken apart piece by piece until it is no longer recognizable. Sad, sad epitaph for our beautiful country. They wanted God out of the schools, government, country. God being the gentleman that He is has now left. But history and the bible tells us that "You reap what you sow. And you reap more than you sow and later than you think." I may not be on this earth when these Socialists/Communists are punished but God's wrath will prevail.

  • Jim Owens

    02/09/2021 11:05 AM

    Governor, I really enjoy reading your Newsletters. It seems to me that the Democrats, by unconstitutionally voting to "impeach" a private citizen are setting themselves up for legitimately being impeach once the Republicans gain control of the House and the Senate in 2022. The Constitution states that all civil officers can be impeached and since the Democrats Representatives and Senators, by voting to "impeach" a private citizen, are failing to "support and defend" the Constitution and could be impeached when Republicans take control of the House and the Senate. When that happens, Republicans should immediately begin impeachment proceedings against all Democrats and RINOs that voted to impeach a private citizen. Just my opinion. Thanks.

  • Emma Jaye Lytle

    02/09/2021 11:04 AM

    They are unconstitutionally trying to impeach the best people President this country has ever had!! It is a sham trying to cover up all the Hunter Biden crap and the fact that we have a mentally challenged illegal President killing jobs and giving our country away! He is hell bent on letting every illegal in the country during a pandemic....that is impeachable to me!!

  • Katherine Urquidi

    02/09/2021 10:59 AM

    Did you see the Satanic halftime show at the Super Bowl? They're not even hiding their affiliations anymore.

  • Ronda Shallow

    02/09/2021 10:33 AM

    I wish the Trump haters would get there head examined!
    I wish President Trump would reveal who these evil people really are and there real agenda!

  • Jackie Scott

    02/09/2021 10:31 AM

    All I see is Trump Derangement Syndrome at work wasting our tax dollars and moving our country in reverse. The Democrats have no limits on how illegal and immoral they will stoop to "undo" all that President Trump did. By the way, love the Eagle's song reference!

  • Firewagon

    02/09/2021 10:25 AM

    As noted, 'what a colossal waste of time! Then again, Democrats do little but colossally 'waste time' doing nothing but damage to America and Americans.

    "Realize that the House managers can say anything they want about Trump (and his supporters) on the Senate floor, and no one can do a thing about it." One of the possibly "unforeseen circumstances" when they abolished 'dueling!' Back in my day, even, if you ran your mouth/lips in denigrating someone, especially their mother, you were 'guaranteed' at least a nose bleed and lip blousing.

    Wanna restore a modicum of civility to that vaunted (not) Congress of ours? Bring back dueling. Then again, I fear these milky-toast, spineless, wonders would not recognize any slight to "their honor or character," as they possess so little of either!

  • Judy Campbell

    02/09/2021 10:18 AM

    This impeachment, just like the first and everything else that these people have done against Trump and his family, is being done because these people are so consumed with hatred. Trump and his family never deserved all of these horrible things that these people have done to them. Jesus said that as the people hated Him, they will hate us because we belong to Him. The world wants power, riches and the world to themselves. They do not realize that they shall experience God’s Wrath. May they come to experience the salvation that can only come through Jesus Christ.