“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack.”
So alleged Liz Cheney, third-ranking Republican in the House, as she led nine GOP colleagues to vote for a second impeachment of Donald Trump. The House Republican caucus voted 19-1 against impeachment.
House Democrats voted lockstep, 222-0, to impeach in an exercise the solidarity of which calls to mind the Supreme Soviet of Stalin’s time.
But is what Cheney said true?
Undeniably, the huge crowd that assembled on the mall Wednesday did so at Trump’s behest. But that peaceful crowd was not the violent mob that invaded the Capitol.
The mob was a mile away as Trump spoke. It was up at the Capitol while Trump was on the Monument grounds. It could not hear him. And the break-in of the Capitol began even before Trump concluded his remarks. It was done as he spoke. Nor is there anything in the text of those remarks to indicate that Trump was signaling for an invasion of the Capitol.
How then did he light “the flame of this attack”?
At the end of his remarks, Trump said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Is that a call to riot?
The impeachment resolution charges Trump with an “incitement of insurrection.” Where did he do this? Where is the smoking gun?
The House Judiciary Committee declined to conduct hearings and call witnesses to reveal the links between Trump and the rioters.
What was the imperative that demanded a suspension of the normal process? Urgency, answers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump’s continuance in the presidency is a “clear and present danger” to the republic.
But this is hysterical nonsense that covers up the real motive.
The left wants to stigmatize Trump down through the ages with twin impeachments, and its hatred of him has overwhelmed any commitment they had to due process.
Trump not only defeated the establishment in 2016. He got 74 million votes for a second term. Then, he defiantly refused to recognize that his defeat was fairly accomplished. Trump is hated because he will not play the role the left has assigned to him in its historic morality play, in which the left is always the triumphant star.
The Washington Post is now demanding that the trial, conviction and expulsion of Trump from the presidency begin before Joe Biden takes the oath in five days.
This is a familiar mindset: the spirit of the lynch mob. No time for evidence. No need for a trial where both sides can be heard. No need for reflection. Just declare him guilty and hang him.
Concerning the riot and rampage on the hill, the right has offered no rationalizations or justifications, as the left invariably has ready when its minions go too far. It is not the right, but the left that has, since the ’60s, condoned and excused and called for empathy and understanding of those who use violent means to advance political ends.
It was Martin Luther King who urged us to understand the root causes of riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark and Detroit when he explained, “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
In 1964, Hubert Humphrey, observing the same riots, declared, “if I were in those conditions… I have enough spark left in me to lead a mighty good revolt under those conditions.”
At Colby College in June 1964, Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic presidential nominee, asked us to appreciate the indispensable role of civil disobedience in advancing social progress:
“In the great struggle to advance civil and human rights, even a jail sentence is no longer a dishonor but a proud achievement. … Perhaps we are destined to see in this law-loving land people running for office not on their stainless records but on their prison records.”
In a retort to President Eisenhower, who had deplored the giving of moral sanction to rioters, Sen. Robert Kennedy said: “There is no point in telling Negroes to obey the law. To many Negroes the law is the enemy.”
In 1970, Justice William O. Douglas described how we should regard leftist demonstrations that turned into violent riots:
“We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution!”
What should Trump’s people do now?
If we are headed for an impeachment trial, force the Democrats to prove that Trump deliberately instigated an “insurrection.”
Then, lay out the history of the American establishment’s endless condoning and justifying of disorders, riots and rampages when done in the hallowed name of the social progress in which they believe.
Then vote down impeachment a second time and leave Pelosi 0-2 in her collisions with President and Citizen Trump.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
This woman is a traitor, she has confirmed it, she is an idiot, she has confirmed it and she is a fool, she has confirmed it. The FACT that SHE and 9 OTHER GOP TRAITORS jumped on the band wagon, the wagon driven by nancy, to impeach BEFORE any kind of investigation even had a chance to start simply shows her ignorance. She now looks like a bigger fool than she had already confirmed as information keeps flowing out that this whole “breach” BS was a set up, the time line for things is not right, antifa goons are getting arrested, Capitol police are being investigated for their involvement and more is coming out each day, this was a staged and choreographed event brought to you by the communist/democrat party and leftists everywhere. Remember well and pass to all you know this list of TRAITORS.
Rep. Liz Cheney(WY)Rep. AnthonyGonzalez (OH)Rep. JaimeHerrera Beutler (WA)Rep. John Katko(NY)Rep. AdamKinzinger (IL)Rep. PeterMeijer (MI)Rep. DanNewhouse (WA)Rep. Tom Rice(SC)Rep. Fred Upton(MI)Rep. DavidValadao (CA)
Yeah… Well .. the feces doesn’t fall too far from the toilet. Just like her elitist, warmongering, new world order, trigger happy father…they MUST maintain the status quo to keep their elitist, overlord position to all the “little people”. Like I’ve been saying for years now Until President Trump (finally someone with balls) came along, there was …. NO… difference between the two useless parties. It’s just a game to these scum… at we the people’s expense, both with freedom and financial extraction. There’s only a handful of real Constitutional following Rep’s and Senators… and look what they’re doing them. Unless President Trump has the military with him and ready to act to arrest and military trial these Constitutional treasonous traders to our country… the game is over. The communist have divided us… control the courts.. the media… and now the voting. There’s only one option left. This country was founded on violence… it has been maintained on violence… and it’s in it’s future.
Oh..and ..a yeah… President Trump did summon the evil demonic mob… BY TELLING THE TRUTH and refusing to sell his or the countries soul… the one thing these treasonous traders will and can’t tolerate!
Liz Cheney, your mouth went off, before you had the facts. This says a lot about you, doesn’t it Liz? This is what we have in Washington. I hope the people in Wyoming remember Liz and her New World antics, when this piece of you know what / loser runs again.
The Cheny unchained melody of RINO sounds more like the 1959’s song of the same name written and sung by a man in prison, longing for the touch of his beloved, which in Liz’s case is the touch of power that goes with establishment Presidents that had we FBI untouchables today like in the days of Eliot Ness, would have this pending President already behind bars and defunded, along with his miscreant son.
SINCE WHEN has the left, ever cared what the facts said, before they went off?? NEVER!
Quote: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The only reason for convicting President Trump now is to Prevent him from ever being elected as president again… 2024 fears????
NOT just him, but letting ALL other conservatives know “IF they get in the leftists way< THEY WILL BE NEXT!"
“The impeachment resolution charges Trump with an “incitement of insurrection.” Where did he do this? Where is the smoking gun?
The House Judiciary Committee declined to conduct hearings and call witnesses to reveal the links between Trump and the rioters.”
This was just another kangaroo court impeachment circus just like the 1st one. No proof, no facts, no justice. Just HATE from the hateful dishonorable, dishonest Nancy Pelosi in her attempt to overthrow President Trump. There was NEVER ANY proof or facts, just I heard, I think, Maybe, he ment.
Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof.
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
“Nancy Pelosi dubbed Trump supporters as “enemies of the state.” 👿
Stop and consider the REAL reason the Swamp and Deep State have been against Donald J Trump from the moment he announced his intention to run for the Presidency. Whoa, we can’t have a Billionaire, whom doesn’t need the money, come to Washington and disrupt OUR Gravy Train of coming to Washington to become Millionaires. This guy actually donated his salary to charity. His actions were Sacrilege to the established entrenched Politicians. This Guy HAS TO GO! What did he do during his tenure? He unravelled most of his predecessor’s Anti-American Legacy. He eliminated a huge majority of Hussein’s regulations, which were controlled by his supporters so they could share the wealth of American Taxpayer money. Instead of kissing the ***** of our enemies, he called them out. He was Actually working FOR the people of this Country instead of against them. He even had the audacity of making this Nation Energy Independent—–God Forbid! Now the Marxist Communist DemocRATS are Hell Bent on making Our Great President, Donald J Trump Persona Non Grata in his own Country. They not only Lied and Cheated to put a Senile Old Criminal in the White House, they are trying to RUSH an Unconstitutional Impeachment through with a week left in his Presidency. They are nothing but Vile and Disgusting Sub-Human Creatures.
This president gave us his all, and put himself on the line. We owe him the same. I hope there are rallies and protests the likes this country has never seen in support of this great man.
IMO its long past the time, for just doing rallies and protests..
If as MLK stated “ “A riot is the language of the unheard.”, whose captains and uncorked bull horn media, thinking themselves impervious to the power of the seduction of power, put wax only in the ears of THE PEOPLE, like the 10 RINO’s, who like Odysseus, have tied themselves to the mast of the Democrat ship of state to hear the political eroticism of the Secular Socialist Siren songs of Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden that will lure them and our Conservative ship of state on to the rocks and the maelstrom of establishment stolen elections, who hide under sheepskins like wolves in a cave to escape the rage of the Cyclops enraged in having his eyes poked out by the odd media men of this American odyssey that claim to be docile socialists but can eat you alive when your back is turned.
Liz Cheney is what that foul stench is coming from washington….And it is past time to clean it up.
But please give me a break….rioters were already going crazy BEFORE POTUS even finished speech, there were plenty of ANTIFA in crowd and if anyone can’t see that…I have no use for you….you are a complete demogogue moron! As for the GOP… nothing good…too many RINO establishment ALL IN IT FOR ME, ********, just like the democrats! it’s all about $$$$, not about the country, not about the people, never was and never is. THAT is the norm they are achieving, all happy now, they are back in the corruption and muck. Let’s have some wars now so all the friends and relatives can get rich too!
bye GOP, go suck yourself dry! You all hated Pres. Trump from day 1! if you think we, the people are voting for your RINOs….think again! McConnell better enjoy his last six years!