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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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  • Joyce Kanlan

    02/09/2021 08:56 PM

    Since BEFORE he swore in, liberal,progressive democrats came with hate,intolerance intimidation&bullying! Democrats made it NO secret they were pushing clinton to finish obama,BIDEN’S hope&change transformation! SHAM after SHAM by the left, wasting time& OUR Money KNOWING it was??.Continuous lies,lawlessness,inciting violence(Waters),pushing Guilty! Prove your innocence ??. The freaking hypocrites don’t need or show proof, it’s PURE socialist propaganda ??! I pray the Right, Trump supporting Lawyers SHOVE EYE WITNESS AFFIDAVITS &VIDEOS down their vulgar,ignorant,secular,demonic throats! I pray God blesses Trumps legal team, blesses, keep&guide our Former President Trump & exposes the ????that IS the socialist communist democrat party! God Bless America ????, our legal citizens, Trumps whole legal team& Former President Trump!????????.

  • Louise Allen

    02/09/2021 08:26 PM

    Thank you Mike Huckabee for staying supportive and strong for our President Donald Trump. He is the only president that has done anything for this country since I have been alive. (78 years). Hope, Arkansas is proud of you, I am sure.
    I was raised in Prescott, Arkansas and spent a lot of time in Hope in the 50s and early 60s chasing BOYS! ??

  • Michael

    02/09/2021 08:01 PM

    Thanks to you Governor and your team for putting up with having to watch this unconstitutional impeachment sham. Couldn't stand to listen to the evil dispicable Demorats spew their deep HATE of President Donald Trump of whom they stole an election from!! But will the weak and pitiful Republicans stand up against this unconstitutional national embarassment? If they had any spine they would have and should have pursued impeachment of Obama and his involvement in impeachable offenses. They should have pursued impeachment against China Joe when he was VP for his obvious quid pro crime and China connections to make himself rich right along with his corrupt family who are an embarassment to our nation. So will even more Americans wake up and actually realize what the Democrats actually are and their hate, their total disregard for our constitution and their agenda that will destroy America and Americans? Wake up and FIGHT before it is too late for our Republic!!!! (It will be too late very soon if nothing is done. The only thing that evil needs to prosper is for good men (and women) to do nothing)

  • Jo Frazier

    02/09/2021 07:12 PM

    I say the reasons for this impeachment is the same as day 1 President Trump took office! Hate Mongering Pelosi and her hate squad are after President Trump like a dog after a bone!!! They have not shut up at him since day 1. I bet Evil Anti American Pelosi and her hate squad are peeling in their pants thinking we have him now! President Trump said NOTHING WRONG! Hateful evil Pelosi and her hate squad Harris, Waters,Tlaib, Omar Cortez etc...have said things to incite crime but President Trump has not. Those people that did this attack on the Capital is because Hate Monger Pelosi & her hate squad (the names I mentioned above) are the reasons for those that attacked.All are getting fed up with this constant hate and decide of our Country. People losing their jobs and their voices not being heard. The Hard working American Citizen feel like Evil Pelosi and her Evil squad are ripping our Country apart. Pelosi and her squad have caused pain, agony and depression amount our American People. Always hate and Drama on a daily basis. So I ask for Impeachment of Pelosi, Waters, Harris, Omar, Tlaib, Schumer, Schiff etc.. as they are the ones that stirred this pot for over 4 years now of nothing but hate and misery, stirring their hate and divide that brought this violence to their own door. President Trump said nothing to make someone d what those people did that day. That was all Terrorist Pelosi & her terrorist squad that have done nothing but incite hate and Evil.

  • ken moore

    02/09/2021 06:24 PM

    impeach 6 democrats in response to trumps impeachment

  • Steve Schafer

    02/09/2021 06:01 PM

    My wife and I spent about 25 minutes discussing this travesty of justice and came to the same conclusion. If this is allowed to come to a conclusion, the Constitution will not be worth the paper it's written on and the United States never was and will never be again. As a former veteran of what this country was; I am appalled by its duly elected officials, and their acts of vengeance on a President that they could not accept. Remember, your elections are coming and the voters will remember.

  • Sylvia P Roy

    02/09/2021 05:52 PM

    Please send me your email . I sure will keep up with President Trump that way. Best President we ever had or ever will have. thanks, Sylvia P. Roy

  • jw

    02/09/2021 05:39 PM

    The Country is showing its ignorance to the world and even the enemy is probably shaking its head while saying cancel those reservations to America the political environment is just to stupid to withstand Lets stay home and watch Hogans Heroes with Biden being commanding officer Klink the two could be twins.

  • Connie Sue Leraas

    02/09/2021 05:38 PM

    I feel like our Constitution has been totally disregarded by the Congress. I know I will not vote for an incumbent ever again and feel like leaving the USA rather than watching Her fall to communism. Depravity and corruption is in abundance in DC with this current administration. Can only lean in to God.

  • Janice vick

    02/09/2021 05:21 PM

    This morning when I woke up, I started to cry about what was being done to our country!
    I saw the impeachment is starting today. The democrats are people who do illegal acts and are never held accountable. I’m a quiet retired teacher, but I wanted to scream out , get out of the people’s house, you awful, dishonest, people and the republicans that voted with the democrats, you are just as disgusting! It made me think of how Jesus got the people out of the Temple as it was a den of thrives! Thank you for keeping us informed! U are my only news source now, God bless

  • Anne turner

    02/09/2021 05:04 PM

    I think this impeachment trial will set off something this country does not need, a precedent to impeach for minor reasons. Would you call convicting someone of lying under oath to Congress worth the impeachment? I guess it was okay for
    Bill Clinton. How about lying about Benghazi, or the health care bill? I guess not. Oh, now I get it, it say very clearly if you read between the lines that the constitution says impeachment if for only conservative presidents. Funny thing about no constitutional lawyers picking up on that as yet. At first I thought that now impeachment proceeding could be implemented whenever Biden misspoke to foreign leaders, or maybe made a decision because he couldn’t remember something important. No so. He has the right stuff so he can do almost anything snd be safe. We must get over this Constitution thing Americans have had for so long and realize that democracy and freedom of speech has almost reached it full decline. Let’s not kid ourselves anymore. With all the new citizens it is doubtful that any Republican will win an office in ten years to fifteen years.

  • Katherine Savage

    02/09/2021 04:55 PM

    Thanks for the Eagles song, going thru my head all day now. Pulling for President Trump, this whole impeachment is ridiculous.

  • Darrell Moeck

    02/09/2021 04:37 PM

    The Democrat's impeachment trial of a President no longer in office is
    100% unconstitutional and shows only hate they have for President Trump
    and his supporters. Their message of "Hate" reminds me of a scripture verse
    "Galatians 6:7 - Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." I believe the Democrat Party will "reap what they sow" and this applies to all of us.

  • Lisa M. Johnson

    02/09/2021 04:32 PM

    I got to watch the first two hours (on and off) of this ridiculousness because my employer had it on and I couldn’t turn it off ... Jamie Raskin makes me embarrassed to admit I’m from the state of Maryland. “January exemption” my stinky foot. This fool needs a roll of duct tape around himself — about mouth level.

  • KarenMcGivney

    02/09/2021 04:27 PM

    I’m completely disgusted with our government. This Shan is paid for with our taxes. It’s no wonder that my email is full every single day with requests for funds to fight for causes. All the funds they get are squandered.
    The GOP better figure out an offensive position in this game soon or we won’t have a country.
    This is an embarrassment in front of the rest of the world and we are letting a few idiots disgrace the entire nation.
    We needed 4 more years of President Trump. One month of Biden is already causing economic hemorrhages and moral depravity that would make Sodom and Gomorrah blush.
    Their is a higher court. The King above all KINGS, and when HIS gavel falls these wrongs will end.
    I think many Americans are full is despair as we know something needs to be done but what, and how, that’s the question.

  • Ken Lawyer

    02/09/2021 04:15 PM

    I wish I had been born 20 yrs. earlier or 50 yrs. later than I was. Unfortunately, I will be identified by future American citizens as one of the idiots that conjured up the "Impediment Trials of Donald Trump"! What a group of Cretans and Apathetic Dolts who are infringing on and hiding behind this travesty of hatred of not just a former president but also millions of patriots who love and defend this countries constitution! They totally disregard those of us who live for freedoms that other countries admire and wish they had. Yesterday, a DA in Texas is prosecuting one of the Capital Crashers on planning ahead before attending the riot. I wonder if any of Trump's attorneys read the same article and will use it as evidence that these rioters had previously planned their siege before President Trump's speech? I have chosen not to watch and give credence to a waste of taxpayer dollars and time for a bunch of anti-American socialists.

  • cheryl paulson

    02/09/2021 04:00 PM

    The Democrats are afraid of Trump. The whole election nation- wide was a big fraud! How everything got flipped over to Biden from the European nation's (China,etc.) it is all out now and everything is documented. How the voting machines dominion,ect. got hacked into.

  • Jay S

    02/09/2021 04:00 PM

    Mike, my GURÙ has described the scenario lucidly - That's it - Bravo

  • Stephen Russell

    02/09/2021 03:50 PM

    Works both ways applies to Dems 2 & make them set an Example
    Or end this Farce Trial
    ALL for Revenge
    C Dems cant help nations problems since DEMs are the problem

  • Mary Minshall

    02/09/2021 03:48 PM

    Since Sen. David Shoen wants religious time off from 5 p.m. Friday to Sunday morning, one hopes that the Christians are allowed time to attend church on Sunday.

  • Michelle Ferrer

    02/09/2021 03:48 PM

    I love your direct presentation and analysis of a situation. I'm choosing to avoid watching the circus as I imagine it will be a repeat of the same nonsense as the last one. I'd rather focus on how we can keep our country together until 2022. Thank you for keeping us informed.

    Proud of your daughter. If we lived in Arkansas, I'd vote for her. She comes from good family!

  • LINDA S CABRERA

    02/09/2021 03:47 PM

    The democrats are going to fall hard.

  • Stephanie Shank

    02/09/2021 03:41 PM

    I tried to watch the “impeachment” bs. Democrat lies and word salad accompanied by edited and dubbed video clips. Thank you, Mike for watching it for me ... I’m not going to watch any more of it.

  • Deborah Hafer

    02/09/2021 03:40 PM

    My heart is broken & crest fallen at what is going on in our wonderful country. Pure evil is running ramped. I truly believe that our God will either straighten this mess out or He will come & get us. Thank you for your insight Gov. Praying for Sarah. She will do well. She comes from good stock.??

  • Jerry

    02/09/2021 03:37 PM

    People around the world makes more sense then the President of the United States it knows as I do that Biden is a Buffoon. People know that energy is very important to a country and this buffoon wants to limit its energy. No way this buffoon can lecture anyone about racism no way can this buffoon can lecture anyone on Human Rights ask the women about Title 9 and how it doesn't protects young women. Biden does not respect Women is thinks of them as just sexual items. No way can this Buffon lecture anyone about sexual harassment many hours of this predator sneaking up on women invading their space in a very creepy way. Even his Vice President accused him of sexual harassment and a Racist what a great dual this is. This Buffoon cannot lecture anyone about Honesty Integrity and obeying the law this Buffoon is not wired to do so for he can not do it himself. This Buffoon can NOT be honest or lawful and this is what America will be the new standard Dishonest Unlawful Morally Corrupt unfit to be an American brought to you from the office of the Buffoon.