Edit2: Holy crap, they acquitted. Well, I admit it; I'm a dumbass. I don't have any clue what is gonna come next, aside from only the BEST.
What are the options?
Get acquitted. Antifa riots in DC (they are already there). Media runs hit pieces saying government is broken and they need to overthrow. They call on Biden to enact insurrection act. Game Over. Guns seized.
Get convicted. We all see due process, truth, and Congress mean nothing anymore. Media has a circle jerk. Nothing happens because we know not to be baited into a civil war. Media doesn’t expect this. There are no more distractions. They have nothing to talk about because Trump is finally “gone”. People with TDS have lost their only passion in life. Stimulus checks still not passed. Lefty idiots get angry, with no Trump to blame. They eat their own in a lefty civil war against Biden.
The goal for Trump right now is to disappear. Once he is gone they will blindly lash out at themselves. The media is trying to divert their violence towards Q but it isn’t working because we never gather and no one knows who follows Q. You have a better chance finding the China virus.
It had to be this way. The game was rigged from the start. Trump never had a fair chance.
Edit: News of them possibly calling witnesses throws a wrench in my theory. I'm at a loss. This movie is totally unpredictable.
I started having these thoughts yesterday. 17 (hmmm!) rinos to convict. ??They impeach without evidence, they commit perjury?? It is just a feeling.
But don't they still swear to tell the truth?
They might have if they called witnesses and investigated during Due Process. Since that never happened, no one swore to anything.
They broke every one of their own rules to get this past the House. They don't even have the Judicial branch presiding. That alone means this can be retried in the Judiciary on grounds of unconstitutionality.
You simply cannot circumvent checks and balances. The Judiciary must have a hand in this for it to be constitutional.
No. During the last impeachment that was the huge story ... that the law to be "sworn in" for House of Reps managers had been removed at some point in recent history. That's why Castor yesterday said, "The magnitude of this trial makes me almost fell like I've been sworn in."
He was making a joke about the House Managers' ability to legally lie during the process.