This morning Donald John Trump left the White House and flew away on Air Force One , to the friendly confines of Mar-a-Lago, where he will throw himself a big going away party. He insisted on a red carpet as he left the White House and then a twenty-one gun salute at the airport. I wonder who will show up at his going away party? Pence won't be there, neither will McConnell, they will be at the inauguration, but you can be sure Lindsey Graham will be. Maybe Ted Cruz will come. Who knows, who cares?
Do you really think any of those 74-million people who voted for Trump will change their minds and embrace the Biden presidency? And what about the one-hundred and some members of the House of Representatives, do you think they will stand and cheer for Joe and Kamala? And Senators like Johnson and Hawley, Cruz and Tuberville, will they lead the applause? Not a chance.
But each in his way, now wants to forgive and forget the past and get down to business. They say impeachment and a trial will only sow the seeds of dissention. We surely don't want to anger the Trump supporters, now do we. I say no, no, a thousand times no. Trump told the country for months that the election would be rigged if he lost. He also proclaimed it in every speech he gave since 2016. He vowed he would never concede, never recognize the Biden/Harris win.
So, Trump went to court, every court in every disputed state, and he lost again and again, sixty-four times. But that made no difference to Trump, his rhetoric became more volatile; His crowds became more excitable. His defenders in Congress made excuse after excuse humoring him saying he had every right to examine the election results. And after recount, and recounting the recount each of the fifty states certified the votes and proclaimed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the winners. In the face of all this, when it came time for the Congress to count the votes, over one-hundred Representatives and seven Senators objected to the vote count.
While this was going on, down the street, Trump was whipping a crowd of over thirty-thousand into a frenzy. Telling them he would lead them to the Capitol and demand that he be declared president because the election was stolen from him. Of course he lied once again, he was a coward, he wouldn't go with those rabble-rousers. He retreated to his private dining room in the White House to watch the carnage. Five people died that day including a police officer who was beaten with a fire extinguisher.
What we all witnessed that day on live television was a coup d' tat. But since the United States criminal codes do not recognize that as a legal term, we have instead it's equivalent, 'advocating the overthrow of the government'. The Criminal Codes applies to "whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or property of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District, or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government."
I think that is fairly clear, what occurred on the morning of January 6, 2021 was Trump advocating the overthrow of the government of the United States of America. And he was abetted by those Senators and Representatives who helped incite the crowd by their lies. The house of Representatives has begun impeachment proceedings against Donald J Trump for the second time. The charge, "incitement of insurrection". The Senate wants to hear the proof before proceeding with the trial. Where the hell were they while this was being broadcast on live Television.
This is not a game of follow the bouncing ball of clues that lead to a phone call to the Ukraine, maybe he did, maybe he didn't. This played out in real time for all of America, and the world for that matter, to see. What more proof does one need? Now, Republicans in Congress want us to move on. Forget what you saw, and the farther away from what happened the easier it will be to forget. I don't think so. Those images are engraved on my mind, just like the falling towers of 9/11.
But a full 75% of Republicans still support Donald Trump. I find that incredible! I guess Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Ave. and not lose a vote. He killed five people in an insurrection that he organized, and incited into action and he hasn't lost a vote. Tell me, how do you reach out to these people?
President Abraham Lincoln used a nom de plume Rebecca, when writing about the Civil War during his presidency. Now someone has taken up the name Rebecca and writes in 2021. "Division in the United States is extraordinary and irreconcilable. Appeals to unity from both side have sounded less sincere, like disclaimers at the end of an advertisement. The hard question is not "How do these two Americas live together?" They don't. The hard question, the right question is; "How do they live apart?""
Alexander Dumas said, ...the difference between treason and patriotism is but a matter of dates.
Good luck and god bless Joe Biden, he will need the wisdom of King Solomon to extricate the country from the melange that is America today, and do it equitability. But before that happens, there must be justice.
I'm just sayin'
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