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DonViejo

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Sun Jan 24, 2021, 08:57 AM Jan 2021

John Dean: Insurrectionist senators are co-conspirators and should not sit in judgment of Trump


Common Dreams
January 24, 2021

On Friday evening Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the deadly Capitol insurrection will begin the week of Feb. 8.

"We all want to put this awful chapter in our nation's history behind us. But healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability. And that is what this trial will provide," said Senator Schumer.

"The names of Cruz and Hawley should go down in history next to people like Benedict Arnold," Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego told Business Insider. "They are just traitors to the country and traitors to the Constitution."

John Dean, the former White House Counsel for Richard Nixon who provided key testimony against Nixon as a witness in the 1973 Nixon impeachment hearings, took to Twitter Saturday afternoon:




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John Dean: Insurrectionist senators are co-conspirators and should not sit in judgment of Trump (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2021 OP
Keep linking the names Cruz and Hawley to the Insurrection. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #1
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