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The Senate on Saturday voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection largely along party lines, bringing an end to the fourth impeachment trial in U.S. history and the second for Trump.

Only seven Republicans voted to convict Trump for allegedly inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when a mob of pro-Trump supporters tried to disrupt the electoral vote count formalizing Joe Biden's election win before a joint session of Congress. The final vote was 57 to 43, far short of the 67 votes needed to secure a conviction.

Republican Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania all voted guilty.

The vote means the Senate cannot bar Trump from holding future federal offices.

Moments after the vote concluded, the former president issued a statement praising his legal team and thanking the senators and other members of Congress "who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country."

The Senate on Saturday voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection largely along party lines, bringing an end to the fourth impeachment trial in U.S. history and the second for Trump. Only seven Republicans voted to convict Trump for allegedly inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when a mob of pro-Trump supporters tried to disrupt the electoral vote count formalizing Joe Biden's election win before a joint session of Congress. The final vote was 57 to 43, far short of the 67 votes needed to secure a conviction. Republican Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania all voted guilty. The vote means the Senate cannot bar Trump from holding future federal offices. Moments after the vote concluded, the former president issued a statement praising his legal team and thanking the senators and other members of Congress "who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country."

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[–] [deleted] 4 pts

It became so undeniable that the people who worship him had to make up lies to explain his failures. Remember when he was giving into Fauci because he was giving him enough rope to hang himself? He was working on a “trap” for Fauci?

I mean they literally had no other defense anymore because his failure was so obvious. His cowardliness and his spinelessness was so goddamned obvious to everyone that the only fallback excuse they had was “setting a trap.”

Then the trap was never sprung and everyone forgot that was the excuse and now they just lie and pretend he didn’t fail.

They blather on about states rights as if governors have the right to suspend constitutional rights within his state.

If a governor decided he was going to set off a nuclear weapon and kill millions of his own constituents, do you think it would be OK for a president to sit there and watch it happen? Or do you think he should interfere? You don’t think he has powers to do that? So he’s just going to let the governor nuke his two biggest cities. Without any interference whatsoever? Let’s say every other branch and every other house, every other arm of the government, everyone just decides to give in and let it happen. Do you think the president has no means to interfere?

Then why is it OK that he let governors destroy their own citizens with lockdowns, masks, arrests, unlawful quarantine measures, unconstitutional edicts, etc?

Spoiler alert:

It was never OK.

[–] 1 pt (edited )

Every time Trump capitulated to the 'swamp' he was supposed to be draining they called it 'setting a trap'. "He makes deals, bro. He's a negotiator. He always wins."

Smart people woke up really fast, basically as soon as every failure started to be referred to as 4D chess.

[–] 1 pt

The 2018 midterms woke me out of my hopium daze. But it wasn’t till the complete betrayal in Washington DC on January 6th and again on the 20th that I let it really go.

There is no political solution. There is no peaceful solution. And as far as I can tell there is no calvary coming to the rescue.

Oh well the suns going to kill us all within 10yrs or so anyway.

[–] 0 pt

Eventually, we'll have to be our own cavalry.