Hello Everybody,

The Senate conducted its trial, and the verdict is in.
Although the impartial jurors decided not to convict and
remove the president from office, it also failed to give
him what he so dearly wanted.  By choosing not to allow
documents and/or witnesses, the impartial jururs left it
all up to the people to decide rather than themselves.

That means NO ACQUITTAL for the president.  He remains
impeached forever, with the people deciding the case this
coming November.

I am not the first who has said this.  Maybe the first
in FidoNet, but not the first who has said this privately,
or publicly.

"He will be held accountable.  He has been held accountable.
He has been impeached.  He can never erase that." ~Nancy Pelosi

Impeached forever means just that.  Historians will look
back on Donald J. Trump as being one of at least three presidents
who have been impeached.  And that means impeached forever.

Of course, we all know President Andrew Johnson was acquitted.
And we also know President Bill Clinton was also acquitted.
So how can it be that President Donald J. Trump was not acquitted?

Well, that is easy to answer.  Documents and witnesses were
allowed for Johnson's trial.  Likewise for Clinton's trial.
Those Senators knew what they were doing, and acquitted them
both after allowing for documents and witnesses.

But please.  Do not take my word for it.  Please allow US Senator
Mazie Hirono (D-HI) explain it all to you.  After all, she was there,
and served as one of those 100 impartial jurors -

"He wasn't acquitted.  It was a rigged trial.  You don't get
acquitted when you don't even get to call witnesses or relevant
witnesses or have the documents because the president stonewalled
all efforts on the part of the House to get the information they
requested.  So, there you go.  It was a rigged trial.  He can
run around saying he was acquitted, but you don't get acquitted
in a rigged trial." ~Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), 2/6/2020

No exoneration.  No acquittal.  Guilty as sin.

Mitt Romney, the last Republican standing, said it all.

--Lee

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