Impeachment trial: the VIDEO the MSM don't want you to see

There's four hours of my life I won't get back! Yesterday I watched the first afternoon of the Senate trial of former President Trump -- "former" being the key word here because, as Mr Trump's lawyers pointed out, he is out of office now, and the Constitution does not allow for the impeachment of a private citizen.

I thought they made a pretty good argument on that point, but in spite of the trial being (on an objective reading of the text of the United States Constitution) contrary to the founding document of the republic, six Republic Senators (including the inevitable Mitt Romney) voted to go ahead with it. Final tally: ayes 56 - nays 44. 

That was pretty much what I expected, but what I found interesting were the videos presented to the solons by the House managers and Mr Trump's lawyers. Impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who previously objected to results from Donald Trump's 2016 victory, showed a dramatic and selectively edited video that spliced together President Trump's statements with images of the mostly peaceful protesters (TM) who "attacked" the Capitol on January 6th. 

I'm sure you've seen that video 1000 times since it was all over the boob tube, from the live feed through every damn "newscast" on every damn station until... well, for all I know it's still being shown this morning. Did you notice, though, that the video edited out (for example) President Trump's appeal to his supporters to "peacefully make their voices heard." The video was the veriest hatchet job, carefully constructed by master manipulators to lay everything at Mr Trump's feet. 

Of course the lickspittle lamestream media swallowed it -- hook, line and sinker -- and expect Americans to do the same. How could viewers do otherwise otherwise, since they saw only the anti-Trump video. But the Senators (whose minds were already made up) saw another one, a montage put together by former Mr Trump's team, which makes clear in just two minutes that this whole show trial is the culmination of the campaign to unseat President Trump which began even before he was sworn in. You be the judge!  

 

The impeachment show trial, the executive orders issued by Sleep Joe to countermand those issued by President Trump, the drive to silence not just Mr Trump but his 74 million supporters (see cartoon above)... these things have nothing to do with reconciliation, and everything to do with retribution. What you have seen over the last three weeks is only the beginning!