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Gop stands for grand old pedophile11/14/2023 “But Trump just controls way too much money and too much power in the Republican party and it was really only a matter of a week or two before he reasserted his authoritarian, cult-like control over the whole GOP apparatus.” Jamie Raskin, a Democratic congressman who was the lead impeachment manager, said: “The evidence was so overwhelming, our legal case was so airtight and Trump’s culpability was so plain to see, I thought that perhaps the Republican party would use this as an opportunity to perform an exorcism on their own body. A majority of senators voted to convict the former president but fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the constitution. The second clue came after Trump had been impeached – for the second time – by the House, a vote in which just 10 Republicans joined Democrats. It was the first clue that Trump had burrowed too far down into the party’s foundations to be expunged – and that anyone who tried would themselves be purged. More than 700 people have been charged in one of the biggest criminal investigations in American history.īut even on the night 6 January, as members of the House and Senate stepped over blood and broken glass to get the job, some 147 Republicans still voted to overturn the election results. After a rally where the defeated incumbent urged supporters to “ fight like hell”, the angry mob laid siege to the US Capitol to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.įive people died, scores of police were beaten and bloodied and there was about $1.5m in damage in the first major attack on the Capitol since the war of 1812. Trump was the first president in American history to inspire an attempted coup. They’re referring, as President Trump does, to these people as patriots. “They’re rewriting the events of January 6. “We now have a major political party that is embracing violence systematically,” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington and former White House official. Many leaders of the party have set about changing the narrative of the insurrection to portray it as a heroic last stand – a new “lost cause”. Graham was soon back on the golf course with him McCarthy was soon kissing the ring at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In the year since the insurrection that reverberated around the world, Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans has seemingly become stronger, not weaker. If ever there was a moment that the party could snap out of its five-year fever dream, this was it. Other allies turned against the president. You are contributing to debate and discussion, and helping to make this website a more open place.A week later he was joined by Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, who called on Trump to “ accept his share of responsibility” for the deadly violence at the Capitol. Thank you for following these guidelines and contributing your thoughts. We will not publish comments that link to outside websites.If you're using an alias, make sure it's unique.We will not publish: Comments written that are poorly spelled or are written in caps or which use strange formatting to get noticed.We screen for comments that seek to spread information that is false or misleading.We will not publish comments that are profane, libelous, racist, or engage in personal attacks.Preference is given to commenters who use real names.Please be advised:Ĭomments are moderated and will not appear on site until they have been reviewed.Ĭomments are not open on some news articles Bell Media reserves the right to choose commenting availability. Bell Media reviews every comment submitted, and reserves the right to approve comments and edit for brevity and clarity. The conditions Neil is expected to abide by would include surrendering his passport, staying away from places where children under 16 years old would congregate and not having access to the Internet. Neil faces no charges in Canada, but police arrested him when he arrived at Vancouver's airport last week using a section of the Criminal Code aimed at protecting public safety. The Crown is asking that the bail-like conditions be in place for two years, while the defence has asked for 18 months, however, the judge says legalities of what is permitted must still be sorted out. provincial court judge in Richmond, B.C., that the 37-year-old will agree to follow a series of conditions that would allow the man his freedom.Ĭhristopher Neil pleaded guilty and spent five years in a Thai prison after an international manhunt was triggered when computer experts unscrambled an image of him abusing children. The lawyer for Christopher Neil told a B.C. man convicted in Thailand for sexually abusing a child has agreed to abide by strict conditions in order to be released into Canadian society.
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