Hello Bj”rn,

We have a man here in the USA, a former president, who is about
to be put on trial

His only defence seems to be that the trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer president. What kind of crazy talk is that?

Crazy talk? You want to know what crazy talk is? You have been
accused of having written many anti-American things, of which I
will not repeat. You have written, in your own words, quite a
lot of things about Trump that may or may not be true. And to be
quite honest, more than a few people in this echo do honestly
believe you hate Americans by the nature of your comments.

So. I have decided to take a stand. For the first time, I am
going to reveal to you what real journalists and reporters are
saying about Donald J. Trump during his current impeachment
trial held by the Senate -

"Trump has the Republican Party on a personalized power like
we haven't seen. It's a caudillo, it's a Caesar, it's a F–hrer.
We don't see that in this country. We do now."
~ ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, comparing
the power of Trump over the GOP to that of somebody like Hitler,
reporting live on television as the trial was being held

This is an American reporter. Not anybody from Sweden.
Just imagine the uproar had you written those words.

FoxNews has gone wild about this. Keeps repeating his words.
Over and over and over again. Showing his face, voicing those
words. On their own network. Talk about free advertising for
ABC News.

When lawyers have a fool for a client, they do the best they can.

After all, he committed the crime when in office.

Doesn't matter. He is no longer office. Hence the case is moot.

The House voted to impeach him while he was still in office.

Please keep in mind the lawyers have a fool for a client.
By his lights, he could have avoided getting impeached by
resigning from office in disgrace. Just like Nixon. And
then gotten his sidekick (Mike Pence) to grant him a pardon.
Not that he needed a pardon. But since he won the election -
by a landslide - there was never any reason for him to resign.

Imagine a chief accountant that is caught embezzling and is charged with the
crime, and then he is fired. On his trial he claims the the trial is unconstitutional because he no longer works for the company in question.

Only one problem with that scenario. After telling the rioters
to "fight like hell" and that he would be there with them when they
broke into the Capitol building, he chose to stay behind.

So who led the insurrection? Certainly not the fool who told them
to do it. Nobody caught him on camera wearing a Vikings helmet (with
horns), waving a Confederate flag, or throwing a fire extinguisher
at a cop's head ...

What kind of crazy talk is that?

The US Constitution says the Senate has "sole power" to try cases
of impeachment. Which is why the first thing the Senate did when the
trial got started was to have to vote to decide if the trial itself
was constitutional. The vote easily passed by a clear majority.

He'd probably do better by claiming insanity.

Insanity is a legal defense, but only a qualified psychiatrist could
have him sent to the loony-bin (St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital is the
place where John Hinckley enjoyed his semi-retirement). Some folks
love it there, and never want to leave.

That'll probably work for Trump as well, there are many witnesses that can confirm that he was -- and still is -- insane.

But did he know right from wrong at the time the crime was committed?
That is the question. If he was, and it can be proven, then the Senate
would have grounds to find him "not guilty by reason of insanity".

However, this is a political trial. Not a criminal trial. And even
though there are some doctors in the Senate, none that I know of are
shrinks.

OTOH, Trump can do everybody a favor by admitting himself ...

--Lee

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If PBS won't do it, who will?

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