This is just so wrong. No president should be threatening a senator. The sad thing is that trump does and the republican senators cower in fear.
No president should be doing this.
GOP senators receive stark warning about voting against Trump
It would be like a mob boss threatening jurors
Yes he has threatened the jury that is supposed to rule on this case.
Anyone else would be charged for trying to influence and threaten a jury.
When will we vote for better people to be in our White House?
The Senators swore an oath to be impartial
Senators who are deliberating under a threat from the President are not impartial
I can't disagree with you and the oath they took. I can disagree with you on the issue of impartiality somehow being only a GOP issue.
I'm just a dumb Canadian but even I've learned what you all mean by calling a politician a RINO. We all know who they are and why they are called that.
Trump has taught his party vital lesson which has served their mandate, support and donations well,
"fight fire with fire and don't give in when they try and pressure you to break". This is why Trump enjoys 95% approval from GOP voters. People are more proudly conservative today, they aren't weak and feeble.
If I had been Pelosi, I would have pushed for censure. It might not have succeeded but with impeachment she has somehow managed to generate sympathy for a swashbuckling president. Even if the censure didn't succeed, it would have sent a strong message. Now even a censure would fail as it would look vindictive.
Senators are acting as jurors in an impeachment
They swear to uphold the Constitution and be impartial
A President threatening “jurors” while they are deliberating invalidates their impartiality
Almost that is certainly difficult to near impossible. Ideal yes, but very difficult.
I think the GOP have just as much an argument that this was political in nature, not put forward out of a dire need to save the country. So many actions they took are inconsistent with this.
So, that said, as jurors, what if the Dems are not being honest? There were rumours that some in the House were being threatened with losing funding if they didn't vote a certain way. Like this, it's all hearsay I suppose.
The world of politics is very partisan lately, in Canada, Europe, everywhere (except in dictatorships). It's a clear battle of ideologies.