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Trump impeached for 'inciting' US Capitol riots:
The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" at last week's Capitol riot.
Ten Republicans sided with Democrats to impeach the president by 232-197.
He is the first president in US history to be impeached twice, or charged with crimes by Congress.
Mr Trump, a Republican, will now face a trial in the Senate, where if convicted he could face being barred from ever holding office again.
But Mr Trump will not have to quit the White House before his term in office ends in one week because the Senate will not reconvene in time.
Mr Trump will leave office on 20 January, following his election defeat last November to Democrat Joe Biden.
The Democratic-controlled House voted after several hours of impassioned debate on Wednesday as armed National Guard troops stood guard inside and outside the Capitol.
[...] Impeachment charges are political, not criminal.
Also at Newsweek, c|net, Al Jazeera, Washington Post.
[Ed Note - The linked article has been revised since submission. The quoted text has been revised accordingly. - Fnord]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @09:28AM (4 children)
I'm a native New Yorker and Donald Trump has been in the news here since I was child in the 1970s.
I don't think he's *evil*. Rather, over the past 40 years or so he's shown us that he's greedy, selfish, unmoored from reality, ready to trash anyone or anything that bruises his fragile ego, ready to smash anything -- no matter how precious or important -- in a childish rage if he doesn't get what he wants. And most of all, he craves adulation and notoriety, deserved or not.
Add to that a severe lack of intellectual curiosity and and addict's penchant for always blaming someone else, and you have quite a piece of work.
No. Trump isn't evil in the sense of being a cackling, malevolent, bent on world domination/destruction bad guy. Trump is a spoiled, greedy, selfish, unpleasant egomaniac with no concept of empathy, fairness or the value of anything unless it benefits him personally.
And I could have told you that 15 years ago or 25 years ago, had you asked. It's nothing new. He's always been that way.
And since I'd learned decades ago that he was a worthless human being, I always ignored him. And I was shocked to see him do so well. I mean it's not like he hides who he is.
I didn't and don't need to see him for anything other than he is, the same guy he's always been. Nor do I need to "twist anything he says," because I knew what he was all along.
But soon he'll shuffle off to Florida and can be nasty and difficult with his family and the other objects around him that he finds useful.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'll just go back to ignoring him as I mostly have for the last 40+ years.
And good riddance to bad garbage.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @11:03AM (2 children)
Doesn't that say something about how bad people found Hillary then, if they voted for that guy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @01:01PM
Actually, it tells me more about how uninformed, un-engaged and susceptible to misinformation, propaganda and outright lies many people are than anything else.
As the ridiculous lies about the most recent election proved, once again, in spades.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday January 15 2021, @09:20AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday January 14 2021, @03:40PM
That's a description of Adolf Hitler... evil? You decide.
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