My latest in PJ Media:
Stephen Collinson, CNN’s White House “reporter,” really, really wants you to take this latest impeachment business seriously. “Trump’s trial set to rock Washington and echo through the ages,” he wrote this morning in an “analysis,” and his breathless excitement fairly leapt from the screen. The question at hand, he informs us, “is whether a president who loses reelection can get away with a violent coup attempt in a desperate bid to stay in power.” Is that what Trump did? Stephen Collinson thinks so, and CNN thinks so, and you better think so yourself, and pronto, or the arbiters of acceptable opinion will before too long come for you, too.
As the trial began, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Sinister) proclaimed that these were the gravest charges that have ever been brought against a president of the United States. Collinson is reading from the same playbook, and makes it absolutely clear what you are to believe: he bemoans “the former commander-in-chief’s likely acquittal for inciting a deadly mob assault on the Capitol” and claims that this acquittal “will echo through generations and may influence the outcome of some unknowable future test of US democracy.” He castigates the “consistent cowardice of Republicans who refuse to hold Trump to account.” He intones that the “events of the next week or so will inform the country’s capacity to move on from a traumatic presidency that left it as divided as at any time since the Civil War.”
The trial, he declares, begins “just a month after a now infamous day, when Trump greeted a huge crowd in Washington already primed for revolt by his weeks of false claims of election fraud. The subsequent invasion of the US Capitol during a joint session of Congress to certify Biden’s election victory led to five deaths and saw Trump fans parading unimpeded through the halls of the iconic building as lawmakers fled to safety.” And if “whipping up a rebellion against the peaceful transfer of US power is not an impeachable offense, nothing is.”
Trump’s Defense Brief Eviscerates the Democrats’ Case for Impeachment
Sure, buddy. Collinson extends his hysterical rant to 1,700 words, but never gets around to quoting Trump saying, in the speech in which he was supposedly inciting a violent coup attempt, that “today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country.” Of course, there are numerous historical precedents for leaders claiming to be protecting what they are in the process of destroying, so Trump’s saying that he wanted Congressional Republicans to safeguard the integrity of our elections doesn’t in itself mean that he didn’t want to destroy that integrity. But Collinson does not even deign to consider the possibility that Trump may have meant what he said.
Even worse, in his windy piece, Collinson never finds time to quote Trump saying: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” How this supposedly mindless, programmed mob is supposed to have understood “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” as “storm the Capitol and terrify AOC in the next building over” is unclear. Doubtless, only superior minds such as those of Collinson, Schumer, and their ilk can explain it.
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somehistory says
a pressly, the now bald member of the ‘squad,’ said she felt terror in an “ancestral” way because her people had to “clean up the mess” left by the White supremacists who stormed the building, because they were always having to clean up after White supremacists.
And r tlaib cried croc tears while she spoke about how terrified she was…even before she was sworn in, she was threatened and someone had to be arrested for threatening her….
and e swalwell says this calling for insurrection is the worst…worse of course than his sleeping with a chinese spy…
And it’s all because they don’t want Mr. Trump to have a chance at holding another office…but esp the one he held until they cheated it away from him…and they have admitted that.
His lawyer said they are trying to write a ‘bill of attainder’ which is Un-Constitutional.
They are already planning the next step if this one fails, by continuing with the illegal application of the 14th Amendment written for officers of the Confederacy who had held pol office in the Union before leaving for the South.
They are all a bunch of criminals…highly paid to be lawmakers, but instead, are lawbreakers. And **proud** of it.
Evil children of the devil are not limited to moslim terrorists. Anyone who attempts to take away the Freedoms that our Creator gave us, is doing satan’s work.
toomanyhobbies says
old story new names… Missouri, Florida bring anything to mind?
LB says
Speaking of “The Squad”, I especially liked AOC’s take where she teared up retelling her “brave survivor” story on an instagram livestream of how “white supremacist Trump supporters” stormed in her office while she was there screaming “WHERE IS SHE?!” as she hid in her office bathroom. And when the doors to the bathroom swung open, she hid behind them, holding her breath with both hands. Thankfully, the white supremacists were dumb and didn’t check behind the doors and left. She was then rescued by her employee, who confirmed her story to be true in an NYT article (nothing like leftists confirming and fact-checking themselves, amirite?), by giving AOC her sneakers to wear so she could run better. She also braved the risk of bomb explosions planted by Trump supporters outside her office.
Now, some racists in here will try and find holes in her story, for example that her office is a block away from the Capitol building which no protesters ever got near to, how the man asking for her wasn’t a mouthbreathing white supremacist but a police officer that wanted to get her to safety, and how the pipe bombs were planted outside both Dem and Rep HQs the night before Jan 6th by an lone unknown perp. BUT THOSE ARE HATE FACTS! Only racists tell hate facts! To combat these hate facts, AOC’s office kindly suggested to her followers via discreet party email that they should mass flag and report all social media posts that doubt her story. Because nothing says “trust me I’m telling the truth” as much as silencing all those who poke holes in your victimhood narrative.
Westman says
The “division” existed long before Trump came along. He was simply an outsider who recognized the need to organize arround the disaffected voters.
Now the Dems are cementing that division by carrying out an impeachment trial charade where the result was already known. They really think we’re glued to our tellies, listening to every “sacred” word of the men who sold their souls to get and stay in office. Trump was elected to oppose this political club.
Why watch the Senate of Rome debating whether to kill Caesar? It’s all silver-tongued and flowery, coming right out of the mouths of whited sepulchers.
The Dems have been walking into the abyss since the 1960s – free sex, abortion, illegal immigration, historical ignorance, transgenderism(man in your daughter’s restroom), global warming, welfare for the able-bodied, new “green” deal, atheism, and their new God, Big Brother Socialism.
It was Biblical, beyond Sodom and Gomorrah – I was a stranger and they took me in during the 1960s and then they walked away into a foreign land I couldn’t recognize. So I got out.
Way to go there, Congress, you’ve made the division larger and permanent.
mortimer says
The Dems have spit into the faces of all Trump-voters and they have filled them not with shame, but with an INDOMITABLE RESOLVE. The OLIGARCHS of Big Tech, Big Money and Big Labor COLLUDED with China to maintain their greedy grasping and destroy the middle and working classes in America. Those very people will now be motivated to organize and defeat the CONSPIRATORS that have been cheered on by the SERVILE LACKEY SCUM of CNN.
Rob Porter says
westman and somehistory – Well said. I watched some of the impeachment trial – as much as a sane person in possession of morals and a sense of decency could stomach, and then the liars and imbeciles of the media who actually take seriously what anyone with an ounce of perception knows is a kangaroo court. Thus I watched that horrible, lying Borger bag of trash on CNN, the brainless loudmouth, Laura Trevelyan on BBC, and shallow clowns on CBC and CTV in Canada.
I have no idea if Americans appreciate this, but it is fact. To millions of people all around the world, the impeachment circus, a rigged election and all the accompanying lies, burning of cities by Antifa and Black Lives Matters, a Congress so divided it cannot operate with civility, adult maturity or sanity, the United States of America now appears a very un-disciplined, ill-tempered, hate-filled, intolerant, adolescent, chaotic and stupid society in which the importance of truth is secondary. It has an illegitimate president with barely a brain in his head, a vice-president who is a fraud, a liar and left-wing radical and a Congress that to all appearances has spoilt children running it. And this is only a start to how America now appears. The glory days are gone, the beacon on the hill was long ago extinguished and the people of the country did it to their civilization that is now in rapid decline. Insanely, the barbarians within are welcoming the barbarians banging on the gates. It is a pitiful sight!
Frank Anderson says
I wonder if it takes a law degree and license, with at least some experience in courtrooms to see this as an outrage worthy of the “trials” in Germany after July, 1944. The whole exercise is nothing more than a publicity stunt to waste time, money and television resources to promote the Democrat agenda of totalitarian control.
The Democrats should be prosecuted for violation of civil rights by a conspiracy. Where is the missing resistance to their illegal conduct? Judges and “prosecutors” raving. Defense lawyers cowering in terror. Mobs calling for guillotines. Department of Justice? Only in George Orwell’s 1984.
mortimer says
Reply to FA: I believe, sir, you are 95% correct. VERY few people understand the sham, mock trial going on here. A citizen is being subjected to vituperation, half-truths and conjecture and they call it ‘evidence’ which any lawyer would know would be inadmissible in a fair trial.
It’s an obvious kangaroo courts similar to Stalin’s show trials or Hitler’s People’s Court (German: Volksgerichtshof). Under fanatical, notorious Roland Freisler, the People’s Court became part of the Nazi system of terror, condemning tens of thousands of people as “Volk Vermin” and thousands more to death for “Volk Treason.”
The Senate is running this show trial of Trump as way to settle political scores and for the ‘crime’ of resisting WOKE-ISM.
It will create a tremendous backlash and their own people will turn away from them when they realize the injustice of it. I believe most people with some education will see it is a sham.
We need lawyers, like you, to remind people WHY this is a shameful travesty.
Frank Anderson says
Mortimer, I represented VS, a Masonic Brother in the same kind of kangaroo court trial in the local Shrine after he was accused falsely of 4 “crimes”. He made the error of protesting the paltry contributions to the hospitals which are the charitable activity the Shrine is supposed to be supporting, while money is going to other pockets. After triggering 3 heart attacks, sending him to the hospital, but not killing him, they finally decided to charge him and throw him out. Six months after my heart surgery, they decided I was the only person they would allow to represent him, prohibiting all non-member lawyers. During the 12 hour “trial” I repeatedly asked for a continuance because of chest pains. I was popping heart pills like candy.
They dismissed 3 of the 4 false charges during the trial, but convicted him of all 4 charges anyway. We both decided to spend our time and money elsewhere instead of appealing to the national body, which KNEW beforehand what was going on because I told them.
Law, rules, promises and facts have no meaning in this environment. The leader (Potentate) loudly proclaimed that “Your Masonic promised mean nothing in this building!” in front of more than 100 members without protest. He later made that same statement to a Past Grand Master’s face. This was in January, 2008. That is the same attitude we see today in Congress. “The Constitution is what we say it is today!”
Should their be any question why I am outraged by what we are seeing in a building erected and created by Masons?
gravenimage says
True, Frank and Mortimer.
Ugly Sid says
You guys are aware how deeply this site is censored right? The best posts don’t survive. Only milqtoast make it. Marc the Censor sends the best writing down the memory hole then pontificates when challenged: a more self-important analist is rare: they would be too difficult to tolerate. Don’t believe me? Go to contacts and try to contract Spencer. Marc intercepts the message and emails you that your input ( meaning you ) are irrelevant. Try it yourself. ( & Marc, email me. I’m saving your taunts. I value you this much! )
mortimer says
Dear Ugly, this is a human rights organization.
gravenimage says
Pretty much the only posts that get spammed here are ones that call for violence or use extreme profanity aimed at others.
And I have certainly sent messages to Robert Spencer through the “Contact Us” box and have heard back from him personally.
Ugly Sid says
& when I do, I get taunts from the censor ( of course, I’ve complained about non-appearance of my comments, what was I expecting, a mia culpa confession? )
About 4/5ths of them disappeared. No more. I’ve let you know. I felt it was obligated to do so. Now, you’ve been apprised. Good luck to you.
gravenimage says
Did your posts fall into the categories I mentioned often get spammed?
Infidel says
When at one point it looked like the Senate successfully convict President Trump could result in him being disqualified from running again, I could get the rationale behind this ‘impeachment’, even if it defied logic in an ex-president being impeached. But now, it’s pretty clear that there won’t be 17 defections, which means that preventing Trump from legally running again is out of the question
Which then begs the question – what’s the point of carrying this on? And when it goes down, as it will, they’re planning to ‘censure’ the former president, which has zero constitutional effects. If they think it’ll damage him, or muddy him up for 2024, they’re assuming that absolutely nothing will happen b/w now and then, either by the Dems or the GOP
One thing I do wanna see happen – I want to see the Never-Trumpers leave the GOP (either them, or the MAGA patriots: we do not belong in the same party together any more than AOC belongs in the same party as Biden). The fact that Liz Cheney could win in a secret ballot shows us that not only do we not have the Senate GOP: we don’t even have the House GOP. There needs to be a major purge in the primaries next year, so that every GOP House member is on the America First team, as is every newly elected GOP senator. We need to clean up Congress in 2022 as much as possible before either Trump or anyone else – Noem, DeSantis et al – run four years from now
gravenimage says
I think this is mostly posturing by the Dems–and ugly posturing it is.
vcragain says
The POINT as you say is to simply put the whole story out there in the record, so that it is there for history..knowing full well that the ‘cult of trump’ is going to scream loudly about how unfair all this is & REFUSE to recognize what has been under their noses for 4 years+ – the trump guy you people seem to have some kind of fetish about, is a long-standing COMPLETE LIAR, total thief, cheat, despicable opportunist & all round disgusting human….so what is wrong with all of you people that try so vainly to stand by (and stand down as he says !) – you have got into a cult of trump & either cannot see past your own noses or are just refusing to recognize that he is totally unworthy of ANY respect – tell me – is this a man you would want your daughters to be introduced to ? – not really eh ? Admit it – this is NOT THE PERSON YOU CAN EVER ADMIRE, HE IS A CON MAN – has always been a con-man – the very worst of NYC slicker types – you avoid them at all cost or you will regret it !!! It’s nothing to be ashsamed of if you get fooled by someone, but insisting after 4 years that you are still correct is completely delusional !!! Good grief people, you are really, really up a gum tree of blindness !
James Lincoln says
vcragain,
I get the fact that you do not like former Pres. Trump.
That being said, how do you like the policies of the current administration?
Did you have any issues or concerns, say, with the recent Presidential Executive Orders?
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
vcragain, at this point, he has a clear record that people can vote on. Regardless of what one thinks about the legitimacy of this election, in 2024, people will get to decide whether they think that Biden’s performance was better than Trump’s or not. This stupid charade that you people are going thru will be forgotten in a few months: you won’t have Trump to kick around for very long. You people are retarded enough to think that most Americans having jobs is a bad thing, and this Chinavirus was a godsend to y’all!
We’ll see how you guys do in 2022, let alone 2024
Pam says
You call Donald Trump a con man complete liar, total thief, cheat, despicable opportunist & all round disgusting human. He donated every one of his Presidential paychecks to charities, how
more disgusting could he get? He’s been doing random acts of kindness for complete strangers long before he even thought of running for President. He would hear or read about someone that has lost so much and stepped up to make their lives better like saving a families farm reward someone for doing the right thing when so many others drove past a woman about to commit suicide and stopped her from doing so. The list goes on and on. Bad people don’t do things like this. I would let my Granddaughter alone with him. You claim there is a President Trump cult… you may want to look into what cults are. You make claims you can’t back up with any facts, after all you haven’t given a single one. I would think people would be tired of our politicians not doing the jobs we as taxpayers are paying them to do, and stop wasting our tax dollars on trying to impeach Mr. Trump. How many more years is this going to be the only thing they concentrate on? I was never a supporter of Obama, but atleast when someone made false claims about him I was big enough to call them out on it not being true. I’m about facts. Having to lie only proves how disgusting people can get when they disagree with something they don’t agree with. You should be ashamed of yourself.
mortimer says
The Dems have no case but in their own hyperbole. That is not a ‘case’ at all, but HATE SPEECH (as they themselves would say if the shoe were on the other foot.)
There is such a thing as a bad loser, but the Dems are ungracious winners. Victory is not enough for them.
They are unhinged in their hateful rage. It’s a psychodrama.
gravenimage says
As New Impeachment Show Trial Begins, CNN Plays Judge, Jury, and Executioner
………………..
This scarcely surprises. Few of the MSM news outlets are just reporting this story–most are obviously biased, and I am not just referring to opinion shows.
Andrew says
As President Trump once said, ” They are coming for YOU, Im just in the way”.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Hari says
Without a proper judge-the Chief Justice refused to preside.There is no jurisdiction, Donald Trump is no longer within their jurisdiction-he is no longer President.
So with no basis in law, the Senate has become a Lynch mob.
very old white guy says
It has been a personal policy of mine to never watch anything on CNN. There are more than enough other outlets from which one can read and see lies.
Rarely says
The defense, airing now, should prove interesting.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
The impeachment of Trump is a joke, no one other than trump supporters passed away as a result medical issues. The police officer that passed away happened to be a Trump supporter and certainly did not pass away due to been struck, by a fire extinguisher . The other happened to young unarmed lady Trump supporter shot in the neck by a police officer.
What is strange about this: is an unarmed lady a threat to the police officer. Was it necessary to use lethal force? How come there is no investigation to the circumstances of the death of this lady and why is this police officer not named?
Notwithstanding this, why is Governor Andrew not been charged with the mass killing of the aged by his idiotic actions of putting recovering covid people in homes for the aged then covering up, President Trump gave him make shift hospitals, a Hospital ship, both were not used to its full extent.
Cuomo, has blamed God, Trump, for this and not himself, what a low life he and brother are.
Many of you dumb liberals think you are superior to Africans, however your sense of justice is lacking big time.
Rob Porter says
Malcolm – The U.S. is now a pitiful mess in which lies and intrigue flourish. Expect no truth to come out of this impeachment circus. It’s a kangaroo court and the media, instead of mocking the circus, expects viewers to take it seriously. And expect no honest investigation or facts out of the now utterly corrupted, left-wing-led FBI, it is in bed with the lying Democrats. America is now what Trump described as a ‘shit-hole’, and about to become worse with a president whose fading brain is no better than that of Julius Malema. Consider Biden’s entire cabinet selection. They are utter crap human beings, probably selected by the disgusting liar and incompetent, Barack Obama.
I’ve never America such a pitiful mess.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Rob you have a good grip of the situation in SA and the comparison Julius/Biden.
What is amazing, the Media in the US are not reporting on issues such as Ashli Babbitt, a 14 military veteran in US air force, of four foreign military tours, including to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why do we not know, who shot her and why she was killed at the US Capitol Building, there is a news blackout, not to mention Trump and those who support him.
The press is no better than Pravda, or the C C P official mouth piece.
gravenimage says
Yes–there’s been very little information on Ahsli Babbitt. She was shot but was not armed or violent. No information on who shot her–nor does there appear to be any investigation. Just appalling.
OLD GUY says
This is what happens when you allow the nuts out of the mental health institutions. They don’t get better they simply multiply like rats. On a more serious side the impeachment trial is nothing but a distraction from what the Democrats are shoving down our throats through Biden signing anything they put in front of him. In his own words he is a dictator based on his executive orders that he signs into law. It is not the President legal right to make law. That job is the responsibility of our state senators and congress men and women.
We the TAX PAYER are paying a lot of money to support these congresspersons and senators that are supposed to represent us, but are NOT.
It is time to restrict political contributions where only American citizens as individuals can contribute to political campaigns. The corporate and super packs are buying our political system for their profit and ideologies with MILLIONS of dollars in contributions.
Spending limits on campaigns will help keep special interest groups from buying elections.
It should be illegal for a person or organization who lives in another state to pour millions of dollars into a political campaign of another state.
Term limits on Congresspersons and Senators, 8 years max and then we don’t need the life time retirement and health care program us TAX payers are paying for these people who claim they are serving their country when they are actually serving themselves.
Walter Sieruk says
The leftists are viciously attempting to “Do a number ” on citizen Donald Trump. They are despicable.
In addition it should be noted that , most likely, Donald Trump is the best American President that this country will ever have in the twenty –first century.
By contrast, president pretender Biden will be a catastrophe and calamity for America and a disaster and tragedy for the American people.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden who should really be impeached. For he is an affront and a disgrace as well as a shame to the Office of the American Presidency and should be impeached
This Biden has proven, first, by his unconscionable vote stealing election fraud in which he schemed with other top ranking Democrats who are much more intelligent than him to have a rigged national election.
To make things even more corrupt and despicable Biden was backed by violent Marxist domestic terror organizations, as Antifa. Likewise, Biden was also backed, the “mullah regime “of Iran and Communist China and Marxist Venezuela.. Those foreign belligerent, hostel governments have no right to meddle and interfere with the November national elections. That Biden went along with all this wickedness is more than proof that Joe Biden should be impeached.
Second, Biden is Un-American by his socialist politics and his horrible plain to stop the American/Mexican border security wall from being completed. Likewise, Biden’s bending over backwards to appease and please those in total control and power in Iran. As seen in his restoring that terrible Obama/Iran nuclear “deal.” Furthermore Biden is also the lapdog of Communist tyrants of Red China.
It’s very appropriate, important and necessary that Joe Biden be impeached and then removed from Office.
James Lincoln says
One small problem, Walter.
If Biden gets impeached – we are stuck with Harris…
gravenimage says
Yes, James–this would be even worse.
Frank Anderson says
GI, if China JB were removed and replaced by the Ugandan Warrior (BIG wrestling fan!), how long do we think it would take for a second impeachment. Unless a new VP is appointed as Gerald Ford was appointed, Nancy Pelosi is next. Then it’s the senior member of the party holding the majority in the Senate, Patrick Leahy (?) and then the Secretary of State Blinken. What a really thrilling line of succession? “Elections have consequences.”
gravenimage says
I take your point, Frank.
One small OT point: I’m also a wrestling fan, and it was the Ultimate Warrior and Kamala the Ugandan Giant. Now you know I’m a geek…
Frank Anderson says
GI, geek is not a word I would apply to you. When Kamala was in my area, he was the Ugandan Warrior. 6 feet 6 inches tall, 385 pounds and one of the best shows in wrestling. He is missed. To have his name corrupted by association with an un-savory person is a shame and a disgrace for all those who admired him. I agree that somewhere along the line Warrior became Giant.