“Kentucky Senator Randal Paul again defended his stance against Donald Trump's impeachment on Sunday [February 7] , arguing that lawmakers' push to convict the former president of inciting last month's Capitol attack unfairly targets political speech. The Republican lawmaker further claimed that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, could theoretically be subject to impeachment charges based on logic used to impeach Trump…
“‘I think if we're going to criminalize speech, and somehow impeach everybody who says, Oh, go fight to hear your voices heard, I mean, we really ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then,’ said Paul during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. His remark came in response to an inquiry from host Chris Wallace about whether Trump bears any responsibility for the violence carried out by thousands of his supporters at the Capitol. ‘[Schumer] went to the Supreme Court, stood in front of the Supreme Court and said, specifically, Hey, Gorsuch. Hey, Kavanaugh. You've unleashed a whirlwind, and you're going to pay the price,' the senator continued.
“Paul referenced
Schumer's comments to conservative justices Brett
Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch in March that used strong language
to urge against their potential votes to restrict abortion rights. Schumer was
criticized for the remarks, and later said that he should have used different
wording to convey his defense of reproductive freedoms.
“Paul likened the Senate
Majority Leader's comments to Trump's rhetoric surrounding the Capitol siege on
Sunday, and said the former president's possible impeachment represents an
infringement on ‘political speech.’ Trump promoted baseless allegations of
‘rigged’ election proceedings, and went so far as to accuse Democrats of ‘stealing’ the election
from him, for months after polls closed on November 3…” (Newsweek).
T****'s story-telling began a long time ago. Referencing elections, he began in Iowa before he was even nominated, saying Ted Cruz cheated. He has gone on to say it everywhere. He set up the circumstances for Jan. 6 long before he lost in November. Pre-meditation=greater treason. Besides precedence existing, the logic of law says that the law applies if you break it during the time when you are within the law's application. You can't escape your culpability by ceasing being under the law at a later time. So much for the T****ists belief in law.
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