Treason

The fact that the United States Senate voted on February 13 to acquit the XPOTUS on charges that he incited the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol came as no surprise to anyone.

A significant majority of the Republican senatorial “jurors” had announced their verdicts prior to the beginning of the trial.  Ignoring the Democratic House managers acting as the prosecution, each of whom presented a most compelling case supporting conviction, almost all of the Republican senators voted for acquittal.  The seven Republicans who joined their 50 Democratic colleagues voting for conviction evidenced great personal courage by putting their country before party in the face of strong condemnation from their partisan colleagues and the Republican powers that be in their home states.

And don’t let Mitch McConnell fool you that his vote to acquit was purely on procedural grounds.  Earlier he had urged the House to impeach the president.  Now he called such an impeachment unconstitutional.   The vote was not on the question of procedure.   The vote was to convict or acquit.  As simple as that.  McConnell joined 42 fellow Republicans in acquitting the XPOTUS.

But let’s make no mistake here.  This vote in no way acquitted the XPOTUS.   We all heard what he said that morning to incite an insurrection and we witnessed the murderous violence that ensued.  What the vote did demonstrate, however, is that 43 members of the US Senate – all of them Republicans – have now openly sanctioned an attempt by the President of the United States to overthrow the US government in violation of both his and their oaths of office. 

May these spineless traitors never wash the shame and blood from their hands.