{"id":122995,"date":"2021-02-10T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122995"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:11:47","slug":"trump-jr-impeachment-push-is-a-waste-of-time-and-reflects-a-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-jr-impeachment-push-is-a-waste-of-time-and-reflects-a-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Jr.: Impeachment Push Is a Waste of Time and Reflects a Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-jr-impeachment-push-is-a-waste-of-time-and-reflects-a-double-standard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump-jr\">Donald Trump Jr.<\/a>. said in an interview with Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the push to impeach former President Donald Trump is both a waste of time and a partisan effort that reflects a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-double-standard\">double standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump-jr-senate-impeachment-something-better-to-do\">said that<\/a> the urgency of the pandemic suggests other legislative priorities should take precedence over a second push to impeach his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t we in the middle of a pandemic?\u201d Trump Jr. said. \u201cI thought that these senators would maybe have something better to do. Maybe they would actually fight for the American people, for a change. Maybe they would actually get to the business of helping us through this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have publicly stated that they want a speedy trial, as the Senate cannot move forward with its legislative priorities until the trial is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will kick off on Wednesday at around 1 p.m., with six Republicans on Tuesday voting to go ahead with the trial, joining all members of the Democrats caucus in saying it is constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr., in remarks to Hannity, denounced what he called a \u201cdouble standard\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-impeachment\">impeachment<\/a> push, arguing that his father\u2019s rhetoric, which Democrats argue amounted to \u201cincitement of insurrection,\u201d was much the same as fiery stump speeches delivered by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou sort of highlighted all the hypocrisy that we saw during 10 months of rioting, looting, arson, in-your-face type of politics,\u201d Trump Jr. said. \u201cCandidly, whatever my father said on January 6th was mild in comparison, but if you were to take his speech and compare it to literally any stump speech ever given in the history of politics, you would see absolutely no deviation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for double standards, the Democrats would have no standards at all,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/TrumpJr\/8755\">Trump Jr. said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in his Jan. 6 speech<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cwe fight like hell and if you don\u2019t fight like hell, you\u2019re not going to have a country anymore,\u201d the former president called on supporters to \u201cpeacefully and patriotically\u201d make their voices heard during the joint session of Congress and later denounced the day\u2019s violence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3684140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Trump-clapping-1200x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump greets the crowd\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the \u201cStop The Steal\u201d rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beta.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20474874-trump-impeachment-trial-memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insist in filings<\/a>\u00a0that the former president is not guilty on the sole charge of \u201cincitement of insurrection,\u201d calling his rhetoric in the Jan. 6 speech a mere figure of speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump used the word \u2018fight\u2019 a little more than a handful of times and each time in the figurative sense that has long been accepted in public discourse when urging people to stand and use their voices to be heard on matters important to them; it was not and could not be construed to encourage acts of violence,\u201d they argued in the filing.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers also contend that the incitement of insurrection charge against Trump is grossly exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn insurrection\u2014unlike a riot\u2014is an organized movement acting for the express purpose to overthrow and take possession of a government\u2019s powers,\u201d they wrote, contending that Trump\u2019s speech \u201cwas not an act encouraging an organized movement to overthrow the United States government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat impeachment managers have pushed back against the argument that Trump was exercising his First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House did not impeach President Trump because he expressed an unpopular political opinion. It impeached him because he wilfully incited violent insurrection against the government,\u201d they argued in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beta.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20474952-house-managers-response-to-trump-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their own filings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the House voted 232\u2013197, including 10 Republicans, to impeach Trump on the sole charge of inciting an insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s acquittal in the Senate, however, is near certain as 17 Republicans would have to join all Democrats in voting to convict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr.. said in an interview with Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the push to impeach former President Donald Trump is both a waste of time and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3636,3688,6121,5073,3634,6053],"class_list":["post-122995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-impeachment","tag-push","tag-reflects","tag-time","tag-trump","tag-waste"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}