IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: DEMOCRATS ARE PLAYING MIND GAME WITH REPUBLICANS.

ICHEOKU says were President Donald John Trump a democrat, no member of the Democratic Party in the House of Representative would have voted to impeach the president; ditto a Democratic Senator ever be seen voting to proceed with the trial or for conviction. As usual, they would have voted en-bloc and in lockstep to quash the impeachment and of course continued in that pattern if the impeachment proceeded through to the Senate. 

It is who they are as they always vote for their party's dictated interest and not individual's feeling, the reason there is hardly any bipartisan agreement in Washington DC. They clearly understand real politicking far more than Republicans, that collectively they are stronger together and that party's interest is supreme and always comes first; far and above any other individual member's selfish interest. They also have a good mechanism of enforcing obedience and cohesion among their party members. 

Even with the recent California Congressman Eric Swalwell's Chinese spy scandal when there was an a broad outcry urging Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi to relieve Mr Swalwell of his membership of the House Intelligence committee, the Democrats still supported their own. Madam Speaker not only refused to listen but add insult to injury by appointing Mr Swalwell as a member of their impeachment managers just to give her middle finger to Republicans and to all those Americans who felt an outrage that a member of the United States Congress in the House intelligent committee was sleeping with the enemy or rather the Chinese spy who loved him as in a spy thriller "From China With Love. But this is Democrats for you and they do not care what anybody thinks about their party and/or its members and no matter the odds, they always stick together and march forward as a party of one but not individual's interest. 

But Republicans are a different breed and they frequently take their republicanism too far in their individualism with hurts the party. This has made it so easy for Democrats to always penetrate Republicans when there is something of interest to their democratic causes and divide them.  Democrats also arm-twist Republicans into charging hard on their members whenever such member is implicated in a scandal and on issues of debate, they also force Republicans into a corner to become the considerate party, where members are urged to vote their conscience and for the greater interest of the country. 

By so doing, Democrats pretend to forget that political party affiliation and membership is a non negotiable partisan affair where only the interest of the party reigns supreme. How Democrats are able to so often manipulate Republicans into always doing their bidding is simply beyond ICHEOKU's imagination, but they do certainly have their way with these treacherous renegade Republicans. 

Now with the ongoing unjustifiable impeachment trial of President Donald John Trump is another case where Democrats are twisting some Republicans like willows in the wind, cajoling them to do what they want, convict the president. So far, six Republicans are dancing to their tune and you wonder what exactly did these Republicans see differently from the others and the larger American society that does not amount to mere political vendetta against the president.  Impeachment threats and attacks which started long before he was even sworn in in 2016 and which continued even after his term in office ended. 

ICHEOKU says anyone who refuses to see Democrats' motivation for pushing the impeachment trial is either part of the Democratic Party dictatorship or simply a hater of the president. The strangest of it all is that no Democrat saw differently from their party's marching order to get the president at whatever cost nor had the courage to give the president a fair hearing chance before agreeing to convict the president. 

Nobody is saying that a president should not be convicted if grounds exist to support such a conviction. Nobody is saying that the impeachment carried out in the House of Representative on January 13th was not within their existing authority, although it was wrongful, illegal and unjust; there being no ground for the impeachment and the manner in which they hurried through the impeachment without witnesses or any fair chance given to the president to participate. Also, Queen Speaker Nancy Pelosi intentionally held back the impeachment article and refused to transfer it to the Senate until the president term ended which was injurious to the case and made it moot. Only Democrats can carry out such shenanigan and get away with it and they are now trying so hard to once again make a fool out of some Republicans by forcing them to convict the president.

There is a reason different crimes are specifically charged as individual count requiring relevant specific evidence confined to the particularities of the specific crime charged in order to prove it. As a result crimes which are not part of the same chain of continuity of commission are separately charged and the involved implicated individual crimes separately charged as counts respectively. Crimes are not lumped together and tried or proved from previous stretch of crimes as a likelihood that an accused committed a present crime which he did not commit. 

Evidence of previous crimes could aid in a finding but is not a substitute nor will it ever replace the evidence of a presently committed crime, no matter what. If a person is charged with a particular crime you cannot use evidence that he committed a somewhat similar crimes in the past to establish that he committed the present crime, absent evidence of it. If the past conducts were criminal, it is expected that he should have been charged then when the crimes were committed and not wait until later to point at them as evidence that the present crime was committed by the person when there is no evidence of it.

So, yes, Democrats charged President Donald John Trump of committing a crime of incitement of insurrection based on his Save America speech of January 6th 2021. They did not or rather failed to establish evidence that in fact the president's speech incited the insurrection. But instead of abandoning their meritless worthless case for lack of evidence, they decided to point at the president's previous speeches as evidence that his January 6th speech incited the rioters.  A matter made worse because all the video and voice evidence they presented were about what happened after the speech in the Capitol and not the speech itself at the Washington DC Mall. 

If some knuckleheads reacted differently to the speech and a negligible number of them did, it is not a reason to punish the president because they unreasonably reacted to it. Those rioters are adults with capacity to make informed decisions and their acts cannot be attributed to the president because not every supporter who heard the speech reacted in the same riotous manner. When will people start taking responsibility for their actions instead of looking for someone else to blame for what they did. 

Also you cannot punish a person for a crime which he might commit in the future, hence the president  cannot be banned from any future political participation simply because his speech may cause some of his supporters to react in certain manner. Team Trump should therefore mount the shortest defense ever know to man: that yes, democrats impeachment managers bombarded the Senate impeachment hearing with videos and innuendoes about what took place in the Capitol on January 6th, but they did not show or prove that it was caused by the president's January 6th speech. 

They failed to establish a causal link between the speech and the riot and therefore failed to prove their case. The impeachment charge against the president was that his speech caused the riot and not that there was a riot in the Capitol as everybody witnessed it on live television and nobody requires any additional convincing on that fact. Even the hiding of exculpable evidence of "peacefully and patriotically" in the said speech is detrimental to their case. Therefore dismissal is in order as no case was made or proved against the president that warrants his conviction, although the matter is already moot.