Benghazi was investigated to an extreme by the Republicans in Congress. Trump invoked his own Benghazi on the U.S. Capitol that left eight people dead and hundreds injured. Yet the Republicans don't want an investigation of the Capitol riot after being so tenacious about investigating Benghazi. In 1999, Lindsey Graham said an impeachment of Clinton wasn't so much a matter of high crimes and misdemeanors as it was a matter of cleansing the oval office. In 2021 Graham has opposed an impeachment of Trump and a formal investigation of the Capitol riot.
The Republicans should be censuring Trump for the Capitol riot. Instead, they are censuring the Republicans who voted to convict Trump. GOP Sen. Burr facing North Carolina censure after Trump conviction vote excerpt: "Burr, who has already announced he will not seek reelection in 2022, is among seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump on Saturday, and the state GOP swiftly condemned him for the move. North Carolina’s GOP Chair Michael Whatley said his vote “in a trial that he declared unconstitutional is shocking and disappointing.” “The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a coequal branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Burr said on Saturday. “Therefore, I have voted to convict."
Impeachment trial solidified views on Trump conviction: POLL excerpt: "Among Republicans, 86% say Trump should not have been convicted and disqualified from holding future office, an attitude shared by only 11% of Democrats and 35% of independents. More than eight in 10 Republicans (83%) actually go even further, believing that the trial shouldn't have even happened, viewing the single charge against Trump as not serious enough to warrant impeachment proceedings. It's an opinion at odds with most of the country: overall, 61% of Americans believe Trump's conduct warranted the historic second impeachment for one president, with that view held by 92% of Democrats and 65% of independents. More than two decades ago, when former President Clinton faced his own impeachment trial for lying under oath and obstructing justice to cover up an extramarital affair, less than half (43%) of the country viewed the charges against him as serious enough for a trial, while a majority (56%) believed they were not serious enough, according to an ABC News poll conducted right after the trial."
2nd aquittal You losers spend 4 years whingeing and nothing happens He Settled in Mar-a-lago anyway, despite media bullshit to the contary Meanwhile Biden is already back tracking on key election promises Biden faces questions about commitment to minimum wage hike
Former First Lady Melania Trump has slammed a CNN report that claimed she was spending her days at the spa and was "bitter and chilly" towards Donald Trump following the Capitol riots. "Mrs Trump is no longer First Lady. She is a private citizen, mother, & wife. Sources in this article are not affiliated [with] her nor have insight into her thoughts or daily life," the Office of Melania Trump tweeted in response to the article. Melania Trump slams media’s ‘unhealthy obsession’ with her after negative report
Trump’s hold on the Senate GOP eroded. But his grip on state-level Republicans remains strong. excerpt: "In the hours after Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy (LA) and Richard Burr (NC) joined five other Republican senators in voting to convict former President Donald Trump on an article of impeachment for his role in inciting the January 6 insurrection, the state Republican parties in Louisiana and North Carolina wasted no time laying down a marker that the GOP still belongs to Trump. The LAGOP and NCGOP each quickly censured Cassidy and Burr for their votes. In a statement posted to Twitter, the LAGOP wrote that it "condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the vote today by Sen. Cassidy to convict former President Trump,” while NCGOP chair Michael Whatley released a statement denouncing Burr’s vote as “shocking and disappointing.” Trump won both Louisiana and North Carolina in 2020. Cassidy was loyal to Trump throughout Trump’s term in office, but began to distance himself during the impeachment trial, perhaps feeling emboldened by the fact that he just won reelection for another six-year term. Following his vote, he posted a remarkably succinct video statement in which he said, “I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.”"
Pelosi says independent commission will examine Capitol riot excerpt: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that Congress will establish an independent, Sept. 11-style commission to look into the deadly insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol. Pelosi said the commission will “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex … and relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power.” In a letter to Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said the House will also put forth supplemental spending to boost security at the Capitol. After former President Donald Trump’s acquittal at his second Senate impeachment trial, bipartisan support appeared to be growing for an independent commission to examine the deadly insurrection."
They should have subpoena power and Trump won't have any excuse not to testify since he's not on trial. Yet. Let's see him testify without lying.
It’s like they’re living in their own isolated little world. While driving they only listen to conservative talk radio, at home their only source of media is FOX News, at work they steal time from their employer by watching Newsmax or Alex Jones on prison planet.com, and during leisure time they standby for the next conspiracy theory from QAnon. How they must miss those tweets from the former President.