TRACK WHAT HE’S DONE IN THIS
PRESIDENCY, RIGHT?
BUT ONE THING HE CAN DO IS GET
IMPEACHED.
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED
FOR A SECOND TIME YESTERDAY ONE
WEEK AFTER THE RIOT HE WAS
CHARGED WITH INCITING AND ONE
WEEK BEFORE HE LEAVES OFFICE.
232-197.
UNLIKE THE FIRST IMPEACHMENT,
WHICH HAD NO REPUBLICAN SUPPORT,
10 MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT’S
OWN PARTY VOTED TO IMPEACH,
MAKING IT THE MOST BIPARTISAN
IMPEACHMENT IN U.S. HISTORY.
JONATHAN LEMIRE WROTE THIS
YESTERDAY.
HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS
REWRITTEN.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ENDURED
HIS SECOND IMPEACHMENT LARGELY
ALONE AND SILENT.
FOR MORE THAN FOUR YEARS, TRUMP
HAS DOMINATED THE NATIONAL
DISCOURSE LIKE NO ONE BEFORE
HIM.
YET WHEN HIS LEGACY WAS SET IN
STONE ON WEDNESDAY, HE WAS
STUNNINGLY LEFT ON THE
SIDELINES.
TRUMP NOW STANDS WITH NO EQUAL.
THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO BE CHARGED
TWICE WITH A HIGH CRIME OR
MISDEMEANOR.
A NEW CO TA FOR A TERM DEFINED
BY A DEEPENING OF THE NATION’S
DIVIDES, AND HIS FAILURES DURING
THE WORST PANDEMIC IN A CENTURY.
BEFORE SIGNING THE SINGLE
ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT, HOUSE
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI SPOKE FROM
THE SAME LECTERN THAT WAS STOLEN
FROM HER OFFICE DURING LAST
WEEK’S ATTACK.
>> TODAY IN A BIPARTISAN WAY THE
HOUSE DEMONSTRATED THAT NO ONE
IS ABOVE THE LAW.
NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
THAT DONALD TRUMP IS A CLEAR AND
PRESENT DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY,
AND THAT ONCE AGAIN WE HONOR
THAT OATH OF OFFICE TO PROTECT
WE’LL GET THE WI-FI RECHECKED.
BUT THAT IS A QUESTION THAT YOU
CAN SEE THIS COMING.
AS MY PROFESSOR IN TORTS SAID,
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THIS
COMING LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN OUT
OF THE MIST.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD HAVE SEEN
THIS COMING.
THAT THIS MAN THAT PLAYED TO THE
40%, PLAYED TO THE CRAZIEST
ELEMENTS OF THE PARTY, WAS NOT
GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUCCEED
POLITICALLY IN A NATIONWIDE
EFFORT.
LOST THE WHITE HOUSE.
LOST THE SENATE.
HE’S LOST THE HOUSE.
AND HE’S BEEN IMPEACHED.
>> AND LOST THE POPULAR VOTE
TWICE FOR GOOD MEASURE.
HE LOST THE SENATE MAJORITY, A
LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE, INCLUDING
MITCH McCONNELL, FOR REPUBLICANS
WITH HIS CONDUCT, FOR HIS
BEHAVIOR, THE WAY HE TALKED
ABOUT THE VOTING BEING RIGGED IN
THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
IT MAY HAVE DEPRESSED ENOUGH
VOTES TO COST MITCH McCONNELL
HIS MAJORITY.
AND TOM NICHOLS, THAT WAS ON
FULL DISPLAY YESTERDAY DURING
THE IMPEACHMENT ARGUMENTS,
DURING THE DEBATE.
YOU HEARD, YES, THERE WERE 10
REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED FOR
IMPEACHMENT, MOST OF THOSE
MAKING DIFFICULT VOTES FOR THEM.
BUT THE REST OF THE REPUBLICANS
IT WAS A MARATHON OF WHAT
ABOUT-ISM.
ROBERT DE NIRO SAID SOMETHING
MEAN ONCE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP.
SO WHY ARE WE IMPEACHING?
THERE WERE MEAN HASHTAGS ABOUT
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
WHAT ABOUT THE RIOTS IN THE
STREETS LAST SUMMER, SEVERAL OF
THEM SAID.
VERY FEW OF THEM CONFRONTED THE
CASE IN FRONT OF THEM WHICH A
WAS THAT DONALD TRUMP INCITED
HIS REPORTERS TO RUSH THE
CAPITOL, KILL A CAPITOL POLICE
OFFICER, AND THREATEN THE LIVES
OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS
COUNTRY, INCLUDING PRESIDENT
TRUMP’S VICE PRESIDENT.
>> IT WAS A SHAMEFUL DISPLAY.
AND IT WAS NOT JUST THE FINAL
TRAJECTORY OF A REPUBLICAN PARTY
THAT SOLD TO DONALD TRUMP.
BUT PUTTING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
ITSELF ON DISPLAY AS AN
UNSERIOUS GROUP OF PEOPLE
UNCAPABLE OF GOVERNING.
IT WAS ALMOST LAUGHABLE THE BIT
ABOUT HOLLYWOOD HATES US.
AND ROBERT DE NIRO WANTED TO
PUNCH THE PRESIDENT.
AND THE NAME-CHECKING OF KATHY
GRIFFIN AND ALL THE OTHER
CELEBRITIES.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD,
IMPEACHING THE COMMANDER IN
CHIEF, THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN
THE WORLD.
AND THE REPUBLICANS WERE
COMPLAINING ABOUT IT LIKE THEY
HAD GONE PAY BAD DEAL ON A
REALITY SHOW, WHICH IS HOW MOST
OF THEM ARE TREATING IT.
WHEN JOE SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE
SEEN IT COMING, THIS IS THE PART
WHERE A LOT OF FOLKS WERE NEVER
TRUMP EARLY ON WARNED A LOT OF
IT WAS COMING.
THIS WOULD BE THE END OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THIS WOULD SMEAR CONSERVATIVISM
BECAUSE IT HAS FALLEN OUT OF THE