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Should we close with Adam Schiff's words from the 1st Impeachment? (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 OP
Schiff's prophetic comments from 1st impeachment: Pantagruel Feb 2021 #1
awesome....his words. Still relevant. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #2
Perhaps 450,000 Americans would still be alive. Kid Berwyn Feb 2021 #3
When the smoke clears....I want Trump To justify his Presidential reaction to OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #4
The bad guy in "No Country for Old Men" knew he was evil. Kid Berwyn Feb 2021 #6
Not an accident. onecaliberal Feb 2021 #5
Hypocrisy Without Borders Kid Berwyn Feb 2021 #7
Republicans all work AGAINST democracy. onecaliberal Feb 2021 #8
 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
1. Schiff's prophetic comments from 1st impeachment:
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 11:51 PM
Feb 2021


"Saying Donald Trump has "betrayed our national security" and will do so again, Rep. Adam Schiff used his closing arguments in the president's impeachment trial on Monday to urge the Senate to take a stand against "a man without character."

"We must say enough — enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again," Schiff, D-Calif., told the Senate. "He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less, and decency matters not at all."

"You are decent," he added. "He is not who you are.”

"Can we be confident that he will not continue to try to cheat in [this] very election? Can we be confident that Americans and not foreign powers will get to decide, and that the president will shun any further foreign interference in our Democratic affairs?" Schiff asked. "The short, plain, sad, incontestable answer is no, you can't. You can't trust this president to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can't. He will not change and you know it."

"What are the odds if left in office that he will continue trying to cheat? I will tell you: 100 percent," he said. "A man without character or ethical compass will never find his way."

Schiff acknowledged the House managers were unlikely to hit the high bar needed to convict the president, a supermajority of 67 senators. Republicans currently hold the majority with 53 members. Schiff urged them to be among "the Davids who took on Goliath."

"Every single vote, even a single vote by a single member can change the course of history. It is said that a single man or woman of courage makes a majority. Is there one among you who will say ‘enough!’?" Schiff asked."

Kid Berwyn

(14,808 posts)
3. Perhaps 450,000 Americans would still be alive.
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 11:58 PM
Feb 2021

In a taped Feb. 7 call with Woodward, Trump said of the virus, “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus,” Trump said.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-bob-woodward-archive-pandemics-cb579c89907b73e546459848e2b3bb67

Not an accident, the deaths — intentional.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,326 posts)
4. When the smoke clears....I want Trump To justify his Presidential reaction to
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 12:09 AM
Feb 2021

another 250,000+ needless deaths.

Kid Berwyn

(14,808 posts)
6. The bad guy in "No Country for Old Men" knew he was evil.
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 12:23 AM
Feb 2021

No conscience, no feelings, no compassion — whatsoever — but, the murderous SOB tried to hide his shame.

Trump, though, pretends he’s done nothing wrong. That’s a whole another level of psycho.

onecaliberal

(32,786 posts)
5. Not an accident.
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 12:12 AM
Feb 2021

I love when President Biden pointed out the number dead today. The press misses the whiney little weasel. They’ve become so pathetic, I just cannot watch.

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