{"id":46183,"date":"2021-01-22T02:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46183"},"modified":"2021-01-22T02:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:58:52","slug":"delay-senate-trial-sure-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46183","title":{"rendered":"Delay Senate trial? Sure … why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell wants to delay the trial of the disgraced former president until February.<\/p>\n

To which I am inclined to say: Sure … whatever.<\/p>\n

The former president is out of office. A conviction won’t kick him out. He’s in Florida luxuriating at his posh resort\/residence and playing lots of golf.<\/p>\n

All he did to merit the second House impeachment was incite an insurrection on Capitol Hill. It happened on the Sixth of January. He egged on a mob, told ’em to walk to Capitol Hill and “take back the government.” That’s what happened and for that the House impeached the Insurrectionist in Chief.<\/p>\n

If he’s convicted, and a delay might allow prosecutors to muster up even more evidence than what we all saw happen in real time, the Senate then can cast a simple majority vote to bar him from seeking public office ever again. That is the goal! It’s a noble one.<\/p>\n

That is what makes McConnell’s request doable, even for those who want to rush to judgment against the former president.<\/p>\n

I am not one of those. I am in no particular hurry to see him convicted. I just want House impeachment trial managers to collect all they evidence they need to get the job done.<\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell wants to delay the trial of the disgraced former president until February. To which I am inclined to say: Sure … whatever. The former president is out of office. A conviction won’t kick him out. He’s in Florida luxuriating at his posh resort\/residence and playing … Continue reading Delay Senate trial? Sure … why not?<\/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":[1],"tags":[2253,2280,8655],"class_list":["post-46183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-impeachment","tag-insurrection","tag-senate-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183","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=46183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46184,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions\/46184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}