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right to vote or to protest the slaughter of George Floyd?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scott-trump-not-guilty-impeachment-capitol-riot-insurrection
Former President Donald Trump is "simply not guilty" of inciting an insurrection against the United States government, Sen. Tim Scott R-S.C., told "America Reports" on Monday.
Scott said while he appreciated and understood the severity of the situation, given that he was in the chamber when rioters stormed the Capitol, he felt culpability should be placed on those who broke inside the building, not Trump.
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"The Democrats should put the blame where it stands, where it should be," Scott said. "And it does not have to do with the president who said go peacefully to protest."
Scott also speculated two potential defenses that Trumps lawyers may use to defend him at the hearing. The first defense is the fact that the pipe bombs planted at the Capitol and planning discussions on social media occurred before Trump gave his speech at the National Mall. The second defense implyed a potential double standard, in which Democratic members of Congress used aggressive hypothetical language in speeches with no legal retaliation.
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Asking for a friend.
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)Behind the scenes, the messaging, the emails, the phone calls to get the story straight. This is a nasty group of pricks, and politically need to be treated like the Anopheles mosquito or the Medfly. Eradicate them at the polls.
malaise
(269,054 posts)However malaria is way to mild for these monsters
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)That is exactly what they are, always have been, and always will be.
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)I wish Trump's rioters would have found Pence, or Scott or any other of the 44.
malaise
(269,054 posts)because this makes no fucking sense
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)...people like Bat Boy, the toothless like Tuberville, klansmen, NAZI scum, and billionaires not so much.
And if the riot had succeeded, Trump likely would declare martial law and appoint such as Scott Reichsmarshals to lord over the New Amerika and lead the round up of the Untermenschen.
malaise
(269,054 posts)He's a self hating piece of shit
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)... Brain was to RICK Scott.
No, Tim would be rounded up at the Capitol. 1776 style and all that forgetting Crispus Attucks.
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malaise
(269,054 posts)Shame him! Ridicule him! Humiliate him!
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)And he knows that very well. He already has one strike against him. A vote to convict will be two strikes. That's enough for Jim Crow who never follows the rules.