I ICHEOKU says although a wishful thinking but expects the 100 Senators to vote unanimously to acquit the president based on the evidence presented during the past four days of the impeachment trial. ICHEOKU's excessive optimism is anchored on the now fully established fact that the president did not commit the crime of "incitement of insurrection" charged as there was nothing in his January 6th 2021 Save America Rally speech which was inciteful nor lead to the riot. If the Senators are fair minded and objective people, and their sole purpose of accepting the impeachment trial despite it being moot is to truthfully listen to the evidence first before reaching a decision, then they must in a bipartisan fashion acquit the president because the evidence did not prove the crime. If it doesn't fit, they must not convict.
The Democratic Party had the whole time and opportunity in the world to charge the president with as many counts indictment in their Articles of Impeachment as they wanted and desired; but they chose otherwise not to do so. Instead, they brought just only one count charge of "incitement of insurrection" and that is what they are stuck with, period. This one count charge is what is before the Senate and the only thing which Democrats impeachment managers must prove to show that the president's speech triggered the Capitol riot, but they failed to do so and could not prove same. As was shown in the cases presented, they failed to establish a causal link between the president's speech and the riot because there was nothing in the foundation of their case to ground the case.
The president's January 6th 2021 Save America Rally speech is the only issue that was in trial and whether it incited the rioters to storm the Capitol. A person who alleges something has the duty to prove it which vests proof on the prosecution in criminal cases and on the plaintiff in civil matters. Democrats alleged and charged the president with one count crime of "incitement of insurrection", they have the duty to prove it and they have failed to prove it. This failure is fatal to their case as they failed to meet their obligation to mate the speech with the riot. Once this fails, nothing else matters as there is nothing more left in the Articles of Impeachment for them to prove or for the president to defend. There is no other count in the indictment left standing and therefore the only plausible decision which the Senate can now make is to render unanimous vote of acquittal of the president because there was no case to answer made against him and if any, Democrats failed to prove it.
The January 6th speech is the it all, the beginning and end of the one count indictment and whatever case and decision therefrom must also be confined within just that same lean scope. No other extraneous cases or issues or incidents are permitted in the matter because if Democrats had wanted, they would have charged them as additional counts. Once this ambit is established, nothing else matters including other things which were done and/or not done by the president soon after the riot begun up until it ended. Even the attempted pillory of the president for not on his own accord, timely sending troops to the Capitol is irrelevant. It was not a count in the indictment and it happened after the riot had already begun; the impeachment case anchors only on the president's Save America Rally speech and nothing more.
Also, the legislature is a different branch of the government and not under the president's control. So, the president can only act in matters involving Congress upon the invitation or request by the leadership of the Congress. The president is not the chief security officer of the Capitol and as with Cities and States which must first invite, seek or ask for help from the president before he can act with sending federal security help to them as was shown during last summer's BLM and ANTIFA mayhem, it is only with the invitation of Congressional leadership that the president could act in their matters and he acted promptly once they made the request for help by sending over twenty thousand National Guards members to help secure the Capitol.
Anyway, America and the world watched the presentations made by Team Trump defense as well as those made by the Democratic Party hatchet anglers. Their presentations shone the light on the case and revealed the meritless of their frivolous case. It showed that nothing in the president's speech of January 6th caused "incitement of insurrection"; the riot was also pre-planned and nobody can incite an already planned event. It was a premeditated act by some knuckleheads who just wanted to raise hell which they did. Their despicable act also ran counter to everything which the president, a law and order champion, who loves the police dearly stood for throughout his four years in office.
As for other extraneous issues which the Democrat impeachment managers tried to drag into the case to help shore up their weak foundation, it was rather a too little too late effort. They were afterthought maneuvers which they never considered impeachment worthy previously, otherwise they should have filed counts on them separately or even prosecuted them when they initially happened. They did not then and are belatedly now only making them up as they go just to establish a case against the president. It is sad that American people's time and resources have once again been wasted on a frivolous impeachment by Democrats, who forced the people to suffer through yet another impeachment hogwash and they knew that it was meritless at the onset but still went forth with it anyway. ICHEOKU says it will be interesting to see how those six renegade Republican Senators in particular finally vote, whether to convict or acquit the president. #TheOnlyRecourseIsAcquittal
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