{"id":174804,"date":"2021-02-10T03:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/with-acquittal-a-foregone-conclusion-the-real-drama-is-what-trump-does-next-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T00:26:34","slug":"with-acquittal-a-foregone-conclusion-the-real-drama-is-what-trump-does-next-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-acquittal-a-foregone-conclusion-the-real-drama-is-what-trump-does-next-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#With acquittal a foregone conclusion, the real drama is what Trump does next: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df4f603c7d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df4f603c7d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-acquittal-a-foregone-conclusion-the-real-drama-is-what-trump-does-next-goodwin\/#Pravda_in_the_US\" >Pravda in the US<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-acquittal-a-foregone-conclusion-the-real-drama-is-what-trump-does-next-goodwin\/#Exporting_%E2%80%98woke\" >Exporting \u2018woke\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-acquittal-a-foregone-conclusion-the-real-drama-is-what-trump-does-next-goodwin\/#The_Cuomo_coverup\" >The Cuomo coverup<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#With acquittal a foregone conclusion, the real drama is what Trump does next: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/trump-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Given that there have been only four presidential impeachments in American history, and given that only one man has twice suffered the indignity, viewers who tuned into the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second Senate trial had a right to expect a buzz of excitement and a sense of drama.<\/p>\n<p>What they got instead was buzz-kill and all the drama of watching paint dry. Who knew impeachment could be so lifeless and history so meaningless?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly Chief Justice John Roberts knew. His refusal to preside reveals the exercise to be a cheap knockoff rather than the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s impossible to believe the Founders would <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rove of Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont acting as both a juror and presiding officer, a conflict of interest so large that it alone renders the trial out of bounds, as Trump lawyer David Schoen effectively argued. His display of Leahy tweets calling for conviction sealed the argument that Leahy cannot be viewed as neutral.<\/p>\n<p>For viewers, Day One was mostly a dud, in that they didn\u2019t even get a trial, only a debate about whether there should be a trial. The dueling videos were the most interesting part, but they were also irrelevant to the threshold question of constitutionality.<\/p>\n<p>Although it passed in a late-afternoon vote with six Republicans joining all 50 Dems, the impeachers\u2019 victory will be temporary. Their fundamental problem is that there can be no tension about the proceedings because there is no tension about the outcome, and thus no logical reason for the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a private citizen in Florida, Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office and acquittal is rightly a foregone conclusion. The smart idea would be to call the whole thing off, on both constitutional grounds and common sense.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said, Trump\u2019s speech to the enormous rally on Jan. 6 was reckless in that it was too angry and too bitter. But there is no honest way to conclude he intended to incite the Capitol invasion and riot.<\/p>\n<p>The only way Dems could argue otherwise was by omitting his line to the crowd that \u201cI know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The real question, then, is why Dems are putting the nation through the exercise again, just a year and five days after Trump was acquitted the first time.<\/p>\n<p>To say they hope for partisan advantage is obvious because nothing unites their party like hating Trump. It\u2019s the glue that holds them together and prevents the factions from breaking into civil war.<\/p>\n<p>That makes Biden the chief beneficiary and explains why, despite his calls for national unity, he gave his approval to the unprecedented trial of his predecessor. If it weren\u2019t for the endless flogging of Trump, his left-wingers would be fighting with the far-left wingers over which <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist programs to ram through now and how many dimes they can wring from taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>But Dems also perceive another, longer range advantage in trying both Trump and Americans\u2019 patience. For at its heart, the second Trump impeachment trial is exactly like the first in that both aimed at voter suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Although the very definition of impeachment focuses on past acts while in office, the twin Trump impeachments have been about looking forward to the next election. The aim has been to knock him off the ballot if possible, but if not, dirty him up so he could be defeated.<\/p>\n<p>The talk about Ukraine in the first trial and about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot now is a pretext. The real driver has always been the fear of what Trump will do, not what he has done. Neutralizing him as a political force and dividing the Republican Party are the ultimate aims.<\/p>\n<p>Once you see that pattern, everything else makes sense. The flimsy evidence about withholding aid to Ukraine, based largely on a single phone call where Trump released the transcript, never had a chance of success in the Senate, and the impeachers knew it. Their aim was to beat him in 2020 and they did, though it\u2019s unlikely that impeachment made much of a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Having beaten him once, you might think the Dems would no longer be afraid of Trump. But they are, which is why they are desperate to keep him off the 2024 ballot. They probably won\u2019t succeed but their endless effort to find a mechanism reveals their fear.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, assuming he is acquitted again, even floated the idea of censuring the former president, then concocting a way to turn that into a ballot ban. Politics doesn\u2019t get any more devious and destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, meanwhile, has been shockingly silent. Knocked off social media, he can\u2019t tweet and he\u2019s been avoiding interviews until the trial ends.<\/p>\n<p>The real suspense is what he will do after that. For as much as Dems and some Washington Republicans despise him, Trump remains extraordinarily popular with GOP voters.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show that a big majority of the 74.2 million voters who backed him last year would do so again, with a YouGov survey showing that 80 percent of Republicans would definitely or probably support him for president in 2024. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others are furious with Trump, but they can read the polls, too.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing they want is to have Trump turn that firepower against the GOP for the 2022 midterms or possibly even start a third party.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Trump\u2019s decisions will be far more interesting and consequential than anything likely to happen in the Senate over the next week.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pravda_in_the_US\"><\/span>Pravda in the US<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Svetlana Shapiro left the Soviet Union for the US, but sees eerie parallels, writing: \u201cThe media are on Joe Biden\u2019s side as well as the Internet giants. They would follow the best traditions of the main Soviet <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper \u201cPravda\u201d (The Truth).<\/p>\n<p>Trump as well as Republicans will be blamed for every failure of the new government. This gives me a very pessimistic prognosis for our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Exporting_%E2%80%98woke\"><\/span>Exporting \u2018woke\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Headline: Woke American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say<\/p>\n<p>Tell us about it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Cuomo_coverup\"><\/span>The Cuomo coverup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Letitia James issued her report accusing Gov. Cuomo of undercounting nursing home deaths by 50 percent, the state was claiming that about 8,700 residents of those facilities died of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Ten days later, the number is now approaching 15,000 dead, meaning James underestimated the scope of the coverup. And still Democrats in the Legislature can\u2019t summon the courage to subpoena the State Health Department for a full accounting.<\/p>\n<p>Their fear of Cuomo comes at the expense of the dead and the living.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the Empire Center for Public Policy filed a lawsuit, and most of the added numbers have come in response to a judge\u2019s ruling. It makes you wonder what the state is still hiding.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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