Why are they doing this to any American talkless of a president. It is a scary day in America when such political gangsterism is tolerated, regardless of the color of it or the person currently under their vice hold. What is not right is not right and what is not fair is not fair. If it is President Donald John Trump today, who knows for who the bell shall toll tomorrow and many moons to come. At least the Democrats would have nominated an Independent Senator to preside over the trial but definitely not a Democrat in order to give it a semblance of fairness, since the Chief Justice's rebuke by recusing himself due to the illegality of what they are doing did not sink in through their cranial walls. It is simply unacceptable and portrays America in bad light as a land where anything goes and where persecution is tolerated provided it fits certain narrative and disguised under some coloration.
Why the Republican Party is still going along with the farce is beyond ICHEOKU, but suffice it to say that some of them are participants in the grand conspiracy to diminish the president and somehow cut his larger than life political stature. But they should understand that millions of American people who belong to MAGA family are not conservatives nor registered Republicans and are keenly watching the development. They will not reciprocate kindly to Republicans during subsequent elections if they continue to participate in the persecution of their dearly beloved president and not end it immediately. It is a case of the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob as the Deep State is the force behind the Democrats who are running wild with such a meritless exercise. The impeachment trial should be immediately dismissed as a non "justiciable" issue which is now moot because the president is no longer in office.
Many foreign countries will be wondering what has become of the much touted America's justice system based on rule of law, watching the aberration which is currently taking place in the Congress. How can they change the rule and conduct impeachment trial of a president who is no longer in office and for a made up crime of incitement when what he said to "peacefully and patriotically" march to the Capitol was loudly said and heard. It is also true that evidence since uncovered showed that plans for the melee were hatched long before the January 6th speech, yet they are telling the world that it was the president's speech that caused the riot. This should no longer be seen as only a Trump's problem because it is not; anybody could fall into such a jeopardy someday regardless of political party affiliation.
Even the lame precedent they are trying to cite about a 1876 Secretary of War is not congruent to the present impeachment case. The Secretary resigned in order to avoid being impeached; unlike the president who was already impeached while still in office, did not resign or run away nor took any other overt act to prevent either his impeachment or trial, but served out his term. For the current impeachment to be treated alike, it requires an active effort by the president to evade impeachment and trial but there was none of that; therefore it cannot be treated like the Secretary of War's case. The president's impeachment process began while the president was still in office when he was impeached (indicted) by the House of Representatives, but was not completed with a trial and conviction or acquittal in the Senate before he left office.
The remainder of the process cannot continue nor be completed post his office because the impeachment process attaches to the office and not the person of the president. The process terminated upon his vacation of the office of the president and therefore calls for a discontinuance or dismissal or whatever else that brings such process to an automatic end because the matter is now moot. Impeachment is attached to the office of president because it is a remedial measure used to check presidential excesses which requires removal from office upon trial and conviction; but it is not a punitive or penal instrument of war used to haunt down and punish a president post term. Enough of the deceitful angling. #EndTheWitchHunt.