{"id":124143,"date":"2021-02-11T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124143"},"modified":"2021-02-11T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:19:25","slug":"trump-impeachment-political-theater-ignores-us-history-constitutional-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-impeachment-political-theater-ignores-us-history-constitutional-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Impeachment \u2018Political Theater,\u2019 Ignores US History: Constitutional Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-impeachment-political-theater-ignores-us-history-constitutional-lawyer%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=124143&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-impeachment\">impeachment<\/a> effort against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is \u201cpolitical theater\u201d that goes against the history of the United States and the American Constitution itself, according\u00a0to\u00a0constitutional attorney Rick Green.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have political actors involved, we get political theater. And that\u2019s a lot of what we\u2019re getting here. Is this the judiciary now? Is the Senate now the judiciary that will try any citizen? Because an impeachment is specifically for someone that is in office, according to the American Constitution,\u201d Green, a former Texas state representative and co-founder of the Patriot Academy, told \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys have stated that it goes against the Constitution to impeach or try a former office-holder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually everyone agrees that impeachment in our Constitution is designed for those three categories listed in Article 2, Section 4. And that\u2019s the president, the vice president, and civil officers\u2014so people that are still serving in office,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the concept being pushed currently in the impeachment trial\u2014that if Trump isn\u2019t convicted he will get away with doing \u201chorrible things,\u201d and future presidents will be able to \u201cdo whatever they want and get away with it\u201d\u2014is \u201ca total red herring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s literally fantasy,\u201d the attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans, voted on Jan. 13 to approve a single <a href=\"https:\/\/degette.house.gov\/sites\/degette.house.gov\/files\/Impeachment%20Resolution.pdf\">article of impeachment (pdf)<\/a> against Trump for \u201cincitement of insurrection,\u201d making him the first president to be impeached twice. On Feb. 9, he became the first former president to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats allege that the president incited violence at the Capitol in a speech he delivered near the White House on Jan 6. In his address, Trump used the words \u201cfight like hell\u201d in reference to his team\u2019s legal efforts around election integrity. The Democrats allege that Trump used the words to incite his followers to commit violence.<\/p>\n<p>However, Democratic House impeachment managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), in their arguments on Feb. 10, presented no new evidence to support the allegation that Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3653309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Epoch_Times-TrumpRally-0097-2-1200x787-1.jpg\" alt=\"donald trump, trump\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump at the Save America rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Lisa Fan\/The Epoch Times)<\/p>\n<p>Green suggested that in this case, constitutional provisions are being abused in order to \u201csilence\u201d the \u201copposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fear is a separation of powers conflict here that the Senate becomes more and more the judiciary\u2026 and now if they can go after someone that\u2019s a citizen like Donald Trump is today, well, they can indict you. They can indict me, they can prevent us from running for future office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that was not the view of the Founding Fathers. And when you abuse a constitutional provision in one instance, then other people will be able to abuse it in other instances in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The constitutional attorney accused the Democratic House impeachment managers of stringing elements of the American Constitution together in order to argue that a former president can be impeached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said this throughout this whole process that what they\u2019re doing and pulling together different parts of the Constitution and creating these new rules is more worthy of a banana republic than a constitutional republic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Green said language from Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution was taken, \u201cseparated,\u201d and mixed with some of the language in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, in a way that was both \u201cmasterful\u201d and \u201cdeceptive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason they\u2019re doing that is because on one hand, they want to say he\u2019s the president. On the other hand, they want to say, it doesn\u2019t matter if he\u2019s the president, he did something awful, and we can still impeach. Putting those things together is the way that they\u2019re trying to make their case. It\u2019s when we say political theater,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took a few kernels of truth\u2014a few phrases out of the Constitution that are obviously there, and even few historical stories. They used those to weave that together to create a fantasy of a situation that has never been done in history\u2014but it feels like it\u2019s accurate and is truth because of the little kernels of truth that were thrown out there. That\u2019s frankly good political theater,\u201d Green said of the impeachment managers in the way that they presented their arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said that at this point, the United States is living \u201cpost-Constitution,\u201d and urged Americans to read the text of the Constitution themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re literally ignoring the constitutional history and the plain text of the Constitution. I think it\u2019s important for us to actually as citizens, to go look at the Constitution ourselves, and not just listen to the silver tongue rhetoric,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt\u2019s just like any other trial, you walk into a trial. If trial attorneys are really good, they paint the picture that they want you to believe and I\u2019m afraid they\u2019ve done that in this case, but it is new territory, and it ignores 240 years of history in the United States. And most importantly, it ignores the Constitution itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats face an uphill battle in convincing enough Republican senators that Trump should be convicted. Forty-four Republicans voted on the first day of the trial that the Senate doesn\u2019t have jurisdiction to try Trump because he\u2019s now a private citizen. Several Republican senators said on Feb. 9 that the vote is an indicator of how the GOP members will ultimately vote on the question of whether the former president is guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats need the votes of at least 17 Republicans in order to secure the supermajority needed to convict Trump. If the vote from the first day of the trial is any indication, the impeachment managers need to change the minds of at least 11 Republicans, a task which even liberal media commentators concede is virtually impossible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ivan Pentchoukov contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impeachment effort against former President Donald Trump is \u201cpolitical theater\u201d that goes against the history of the United States and the American Constitution itself, according\u00a0to\u00a0constitutional attorney Rick Green. \u201cWhen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893164,"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":[6335,4919,4042,3636,6334,3634],"class_list":["post-124143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-constitutional","tag-history","tag-ignores","tag-impeachment","tag-theater","tag-trump"],"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\/124143","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=124143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}