The senate cannot exonerate him. They can only vote to either leave him in office or not. He's already been impeached. Everything else is just BS.
Impeachment means charged. Impeachment isn't a sentence.
It's not a court of law. Neither Civil nor Criminal. Rump is Impeached, period. The only thing the Senate has to do is figure out if it's enough to remove him from office or not. It's political. And Politically, Rump has been found guilty. But the Senate needs to determine if it's enough to remove him or not. It's actually very simple.
Wrong. Impeachment means charged. Same as a grand jury. Impeachment isn't a sentence.
IN a civil or criminal court you are correct. This an impeachment which is neither. The House found grounds for dismissal but it's up for the Senate to say either up or down whether there are enough grounds for removal from office. This is closer to a board meeting with HR on whether to fire a CEO over misconduct or any kind.
The Democrats voted for impeachment. No Republicans voted for imprisonment. Therefore, the House didn't vote for impeachment, Democrats did.
Fake News NYT rushes to save Quid Pro Joe
As the impeachment bores on, Democrats are beginning to realize their bullets are bouncing off the the chest of our Beloved President Donald John Trump and hitting front runner Quid Pro Quo Joe Biden, because it is difficult to claim impropriety over delaying aid to Ukraine when your own man boasted about holding up a billion-dollar loan guarantee to Ukraine unless it stopped investigating his son, Hunter Biden.
Democrats thought they had cleared Biden when he staged a confrontation last month with a man in Iowa who called him out on his corruption. Biden called the man fat, dumb and a liar. For some reason, Biden challenged him to pushups.
But the impeachment has focused attention not on some phone call, but on the corruption by Biden and his son.
To defend this, Democrats have tried to extend kids-are-off-limits to a 49-year-old man. I cannot imagine much public sympathy for a man impregnating a stripper and then refusing to pay child support.
The Fake News New York Times today gamely tried to extinguish the flames of scandal in a piece headlined, "How Joe Biden Talks About a Touchy Subject: His Son.
"As he runs for president, Mr. Biden has repeatedly faced questions about the overseas business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden. He has mostly kept his cool — but not always."
In promoting the story on Twitter, Peter Baker of the Fake News New York Times tamped down the talking point,
"Scrutiny of Hunter Biden poses a problem for his father: He presents himself as regular guy with working class roots but his son's lucrative overseas business strikes many as an insider deal typical of Washington."
The article never mentions his son's addiction to cocaine, the paternity lawsuit, child support, or the son travelling to Red China with Biden on Air Force Two, where Hunter Biden sealed a $1.5 billion deal.
But the Fake News Times did lay out correctly the problem.
"As the Senate impeachment trial of the president continues this week, there is renewed focus in Washington on Hunter Biden, who held a seat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company at a time when his father was vice president and handling diplomacy with the country.
"And Mr. Biden is no longer just dealing with questions about his son from hecklers: On Wednesday, he rejected the suggestion that he and his son testify in the trial in a swap for the testimony of current or former Trump administration officials, an idea raised by an attendee at an Iowa campaign event that has been dismissed by congressional Democrats. 'This is a constitutional issue, and we’re not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater,' Mr. Biden said."
The man is freaking out. He may be slow of wit and sliding into imbecility, but the sense of danger is one of the last to go.
The Super Delegates who will crown the party's presidential nominee are trying to save him. They selected Obama over Hillary, and then Hillary over Bernie later.
"'It’s a very personal issue,' said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who said Mr. Trump was 'an evil genius on the issue of trying to cut other people up, and cut them up this way.'"
"This is a dad defending his son."
Of course, this is also a dad who used his position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later as vice president to enrich his son -- as well as his brother and other family members.
