The universe, most likely, knows that Democrats impeached Donald J. Trump in December 2020, at the end of his “first” term in office. Democrats brought one charge against him. On Saturday, February 13, 2021, the United States Senate voted “not guilty” of the charge levied in the impeachment. (Those are the legal terms Senator Leahy used to announce the decision after the vote.) Now you know that the U.S. Senate has twice found President Trump not guilty of articles of impeachment under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership. That’s quite a record. I’ve held off speculating or commenting on this second impeachment fiasco until now. Three things must be said:
- Democrat Members of Congress have weakened the U.S. Constitution through their abuse of the impeachment process, twice now. Democrats have set the bar so low that any political majority in the House will now be able to disrupt the President’s work (the people’s business) based on the most specious of charges.
- The Senate acquittal showed us that Pres. Trump’s words, no matter how ill-spoken one might think they were, did not provide incentive for free people to riot at the Capitol Building on January 6. (Prosecute the perpetrators.) Neither until Trump, has a president’s personality and political popularity been grounds for impeachment. They are now.
- Democrats will go to any lengths possible to destroy Pres. Trump and his tens of millions of supporters. Democrats fear Trump more than they fear the truth, and that’s the truth.
Is there another motive for the 2020 impeachment sleight of hand? We should be asking “What has President Biden been doing while biding his time, waiting for the show trial to end?” He has been quite busy, but no one is noticing. Biden issued more than 40 Executive Orders that have caused great disruption across a volume of programs and millions of lives. He’s also made many promises about Covid-19, building on the foundation Trump’s administration set in place. No one is much paying attention to Biden, and perhaps that’s been purposeful. Some of us, on all sides of many issues, had looked forward to one respite from the last four years of Trump travails. We wanted to debate policy, not personality. It’s what we wanted during the 2020 campaign, but no—that would have cost Biden votes. Instead, his handlers hid him in the basement. You want to talk policy? So far, disappointed. Desperately disappointed. On substantive legislative action, the Democrats prefer rattling Republicans’ cages and reinforcing their political base more than getting anything done. Two show trial impeachments prove it. Now, can we get Congress and Pres. Biden to roll up their sleeves and get something done? In public? It’s probably too much to expect that mainstream media will keep us rightly informed, but today we have dozens of alternative media from which to choose. Time for accountable action. (But don’t hold your breath.)
