{"id":40384,"date":"2019-12-20T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40384"},"modified":"2019-12-20T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:00:05","slug":"trumps-latest-worst-event-finally-hits-bottom-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40384","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s latest ‘worst’ event finally hits bottom … I hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There have been more “worst” moments of Donald Trump’s time as a politician and as president that I cannot keep track of them all.<\/p>\n

He denigrated John McCain’s service to the nation; he mocked a New York Times reporter’s physical ailment; he chastised a Gold Star couple; he has issued insults left and right; his incessant lying; he most recently implied that a late congressman might be resting eternally in hell.<\/p>\n

Well, the events that occurred in the House of Representatives I believe qualifies as the worst thing to happen to this individual’s presidency. The House voted to impeach Trump on two counts. It was a partisan vote, but it’s a vote nonetheless. Trump’s tenure as president is now marked indelibly with the label of “impeached.”<\/p>\n

It could get worse. It likely won’t unless hell freezes over and the Senate actually convicts Trump either of abuse of power or obstruction of Congress.<\/p>\n

Trump hit the campaign trail and at the moment the House was impeaching him, he was standing at a podium in Battle Creek, Mich., where he made the idiotic crack about the late John Dingell “looking up” at the world from, um, the depths of hell.<\/p>\n

The day of Trump’s impeachment has been called historic, seminal, pivotal, monumental<\/em> \u2026 all of the above and even some more superlative descriptions.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Democrats are motivated purely by “partisan” hatred of Trump. Ironic, yes? This comes from the guy who has perfected partisanship to an art form.<\/p>\n

So, what now? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is withholding the articles of impeachment until she learns the rules under which the Senate will conduct its trial. She wants it to be “fair.” Well, duh? My hope is that McConnell agrees to conduct a “fair” trial.<\/p>\n

As for the president, he will have the indelible mark of being an “impeached” head of state. It’s a designation he has earned. Of that I have no doubt.<\/p>\n\n

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There have been more “worst” moments of Donald Trump’s time as a politician and as president that I cannot keep track of them all. He denigrated John McCain’s service to the nation; he mocked a New York Times reporter’s physical ailment; he chastised a Gold Star couple; he has issued insults left and right; his … Continue reading Trump’s latest ‘worst’ event finally hits bottom … I hope<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[129,1424,3099,3178,9093,8655,7793],"class_list":["post-40384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obstruction-of-congress","tag-senate-trial","tag-trump-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40386,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384\/revisions\/40386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}