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Donald Trump acquitted by Senate in second impeachment trial:
The Senate has voted to acquit the former president of the United States after the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump concluded Saturday. The vote came after a five-day trial where arguments centered around whether Trump incited the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, and whether it is constitutional to hear the impeachment trial of a former president who is now a private citizen.
Despite a compelling prosecution, an acquittal isn't unexpected. While the Senate is split 50/50, with Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-break vote as president of the Senate when necessary, the impeachment trial required a two-thirds supermajority for conviction.
This meant 17 Republican senators would have had to vote to convict Trump, an unlikely ask from the beginning. This was indicated in a Jan. 25 vote led by Sen. Rand Paul on whether the impeachment trial of a former president was "unconstitutional," during which just five Republicans voted against the motion. The first day of the impeachment trial this week then saw a similar vote, during which six Republicans voted with Democrats to continue the trial.
In the end, the vote was 57-43 to convict Trump, with all 48 Democrats, two independents and seven Republicans finding Trump guilty. The only members of the GOP who voted alongside the Democrat senators were Sens. Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey, Bill Cassidy and Richard Burr.
Also at: CNN, Al Jazera, Time, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @12:28AM (15 children)
If Trump incited this "riot", who incited all the murderous, city-destroying Antifa/BLM riots of last year? Think hard.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @01:21AM (1 child)
Crime, including rioting, arson, and murder, are the new black people's entitlements. It's okay when they do it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @01:30AM
What's "new" about pearl millers doing this shit?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @01:51AM (9 children)
Hmmm, I am thinking really hard! Who could have incited the peaceful protests against institutional racism in law enforcement? Oh, I know! I Know! Call on me! Me!
Is there a prize? Do I win a prize? When the rioting starts, the shooting starts! "Where we go one, one gets shot dead, and we runaway." Sorry, AC, your false equivalency will avail you not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @02:02AM (8 children)
> racially discriminatory police killings
Did the police inject George Floyd with fentanyl?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @02:55AM (6 children)
NO, they killed him by squashing him, and failing to render medical aide, and by injecting him with Hunter's laptop. Look, dumbass, drop the right-wing memes, they are skank, not dank.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @03:13AM (5 children)
George Floyd had a lethal level of fentanyl in his system, as well as methamphetamine, morphine, and cannabinoids. He was also positive for SARS-CoV-2, heart disease, and hypertension. He is partying hard in a better place now.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Sunday February 14 2021, @04:02AM (4 children)
Seems [archive.org] to have been somewhat below said level (11 ng per mL for Floyd, mean levels of 34 ng per mL loses conciousness though deaths have occured at doses as low as 3 ng per mL).
So in combination with the meth dose, one could make a case (and probably would in court) that death could occur due solely to this in a person who wasn't healthy (which again the defense would argue). But it remains that said police officer leaned on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes without regard for Floyd's health condition.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday February 14 2021, @12:04PM (3 children)
Anyone who even brings up such a bankrupt argument is clearly, in the most charitable interpretation, utterly ignorant of both law and morality. In the less charitable interpretation, they actively reject both, in favor of tribal loyalty.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday February 15 2021, @01:53AM (2 children)
Indeed. Else we're declaring open season on 90 year old grandmothers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2021, @11:46PM (1 child)
That is you, bankrupt intellectually and morally. Identity politics is blinding you people that accuse everyone else of doing what you do.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 16 2021, @01:00AM
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @03:40AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @02:27AM
who incited all the murderous, city-destroying Antifa/BLM riots of last year?
Trump! DUH!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Sunday February 14 2021, @03:43AM (1 child)
A number of police officers.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday February 14 2021, @05:18AM
And prosecutors, mayors, and a wide variety of other cops that refused to hold any of the other cops accountable for murdering people.
Oh, and BLM got fewer people killed and injured than the attack on the Capitol, and most of the people killed by the BLM protests and most of the property destroyed wasn't by BLM people, but by right-wing counter-protesters and infiltrators specifically trying to make BLM look bad by doing things like burning down a police station (this isn't speculation, they caught the guys who did it and they were right-wing militia types).
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.