They basically had no choice but to pretend to support him from the beginning. They whittled away at that support over the course of 4 years and by the end it was plainly obvious where their loyalties lie. IMO the majority of these men and women have always supported a foreign power over that of their own country.
Republican senators plot way to blow up Trump impeachment trial before it starts by Daniel Chaitin, Breaking News Editor | | January 25, 2021 09:44 PM | Updated Jan 25, 2021, 11:35 PM A faction of Republican senators aim to defuse former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial before it even starts. The plan was presented by Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, in a short tweet thread Monday evening after the House impeachment managers delivered to the Senate an article charging Trump with inciting an insurrection in connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. "I will work with other like-minded Republican senators to challenge the constitutionality of this vindictive #impeachment trial before it begins," Johnson said. "On January 6 we collectively acknowledged it was not wise for Congress to overrule the wishes of voters," he added. "Why would we think it makes sense to pre-emptively do so now?" Ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump a historic second time. Trump previously was impeached in December 2019 on two Ukraine-related articles of impeachment but was acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate. Trump has called his second impeachment a "hoax," and his allies expect claims of voter fraud will be raised once again. If convicted in the Senate, which requires a two-thirds vote, Trump also faces the prospect of being barred from holding office again. The trial is expected to begin the week of Feb. 8. Johnson joined with a cadre of fellow Republican senators, including John Kennedy of Louisiana, Rick Scott of Florida, and James Risch of Idaho, in raising the possibility of stopping the trial to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Among their suggestions was appealing to the Supreme Court, according to Politico. But the Kentucky Republican's staff informed them that the Senate likely would not have standing to stop the impeachment trial in court. Still, Kennedy argued during a Fox News appearance Monday night that the Supreme Court was a valid pathway. "I think a fair-minded, rational person would ask Congress to vote to file a declaratory judgment action to ask the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of impeaching a president who isn't president before we put the country through this," he said. Johnson, who was one of 11 Republican senators who demanded Congress create a commission to audit the 2020 election ahead of the certification of the Electoral College results, argued last week that an impeachment trial of a former president is unconstitutional and put pressure on President Biden and other Democrats to oppose the effort. "Democrats can't have it both ways: an unconstitutional impeachment trial & Senate confirmation of the Biden admin's national security team," Johnson tweeted Thursday. "They need to choose between being vindictive or staffing the administration to keep the nation safe. What will it be: revenge or security?"
Let's hope he's correct Senator Rand Paul @RandPaul · 19m The Senate just voted on my constitutional point of order. 45 Senators agreed that this sham of a “trial” is unconstitutional. That is more than will be needed to acquit and to eventually end this partisan impeachment process. This “trial” is dead on arrival in the Senate. .
McConnell Votes to Declare Trump Impeachment Trial ‘Unconstitutional’ By Zachary Evans Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) voted in favor of a resolution declaring the impeachment trial of former President Trump “unconstitutional” on Tuesday. The point of order resolution was put forward by McConnell’s colleague from Kentucky, Rand Paul, and effectively forced Republicans to declare on the record whether they consider the impeachment trial constitutional, given that it’s taking place after Trump has left office. The resolution failed after a majority of senators voted against it, meaning the impeachment trial will go ahead as planned. However, only five Republicans voted against the resolution: Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. At the close of the impeachment trial itself, at least 17 Republican senators would need to join Democrats in order to convict Trump. “I think there will be enough support on” the point-of-order resolution “to show there’s no chance they can impeach the president,” Paul told reporters before the vote on Tuesday. “If 34 people support my resolution that this is an unconstitutional proceeding, it shows they don’t have the votes and we’re basically wasting our time.” Senator Collins said following the vote that there would be little chance of an impeachment conviction. “I think it’s pretty obvious from the vote today that it is extraordinary unlikely that the president will be convicted,” Collins told The New York Times. “Just do the math.” McConnell was reportedly pleased with the idea of impeaching Trump, after the former president incited a mob of his supporters to amass at the Capitol on January 6, though the majority leader later said publicly that he hadn’t decided whether to vote to convict. The mob breached the Capitol and forced lawmakers to evacuate, and five people died in the riots including a Capitol police officer. An impeachment conviction could allow the Senate to bar Trump from running for office again, however a number of Republican senators have come out against the impeachment push. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said it would be “arrogant” for the Senate to prevent Trump from running again. “Voters get to decide that,” Rubio told Chis Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “Who are we to tell voters who they can vote for in the future?” Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas also voiced skepticism regarding the impeachment trail. “I think a lot of Americans are going to think it’s strange that the Senate is spending its time trying to convict and remove from office a man who left office a week ago,” Cotton told the Associated Press on Monday. https://www.nationalreview.com/news...ismiss-impeachment-trial-as-unconstitutional/ .
Check out what who I like to call President Emeritus Donald J. Trump has been posting here (I hope it’s really him!): UPDATE: It’s him posting through his son, as I see it. https://m.facebook.com/pg/realDonaldTrumpTweets/posts/
Although, I like this photo but looking closely at both hands in this photo...it doesn't really look like her own hands. Photo shopped, perhaps?
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood puts license in jeopardy by refusing mental health evaluation By Jan Wolfe, David Thomas 2 Min Read (Reuters) - L. Lin Wood, a lawyer who played a role in former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, put his law license in jeopardy on Friday by saying on social media that he would not undergo a mental health evaluation requested by an attorney licensing body. Wood said on the app Telegram on Thursday that the State Bar of Georgia had told him he needed to submit to the evaluation to keep his law license. In a subsequent post on Friday, Wood said he would decline the request and “litigate” with the state bar if necessary. “I have done nothing wrong. I have only exercised my right of free speech,” Wood said in that post. “I will not allow the State Bar to persecute me for doing so and thereby violate my Constitutional rights.” State Bar of Georgia Chief Operating Officer Sarah Coole confirmed that Wood had been asked to undergo a mental health evaluation but declined to comment further. The development comes weeks after Wood, an Atlanta-based defamation litigator, was banned from Twitter, where he regularly embraced conspiracy theories. A Delaware state judge earlier this month blocked Wood from representing former Trump adviser Carter Page, calling claims Wood made on Twitter about U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts “too disgusting and outrageous to repeat.” Wood was also fired in January by a Kentucky teenager who sued media outlets over their portrayal of his stand-off with a Native American activist in Washington in 2019. It is unusual but legal for a state bar to ask a lawyer to submit to such an evaluation, said Brian Faughnan, a lawyer in Tennessee who advises attorneys on ethics matters. Such requests are kept confidential, but in this case Wood “waived” that right to confidentiality by posting on social media, he said. Reporting by Jan Wolfe and David Thomas; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Bill Berkrot https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-wood-idUSKBN29Y2CD
O la la, a post of mine was just now deleted and the person who did that THREATENED me that if I would post again something about Simon Parkes, he would delete my account. How charitable..... I posted indeed again about Simon Peres because he said clearly in his latest video that he was NOT a New Age adept and that it was important to believe in God and that we lived a time of great battle between God and satan. Don't we agree ? As I do not wish to be part of a communistic tinted forum where free dialogue is apparently forbidden and where "moderators" show an hostile, agressive attitude towards a rectification of a POTENTIAL incorrect judged person i.e. Simon Peres and where I asked for comments of my fellow Christian brothers and sisters , I do not wish to remain longer member of this forum. "Period", as the moderator likewise wrote to me. "At the end we will be judged on the love we showed or did not show..."
I am very sorry to hear this Elisa. I hope you won't leave the forum. Your input is very valuable and I certainly benefit from it. I know others do too. Please ask Our Mother what you should do. I hope she tells you to stay with us. God bless.
Yes, I agree with AED. Please stay Elisa, as a group we stay united under our Heavenly Mother Mary's mantle.
