Though Guilty, The GOP Says Trump Should Be Acquitted To Avoid Upsetting His Supporters
GOP Senators intend to vote not guilty in the hope that Trump’s extremist followers will then become nicer & less angry.
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
Lawyers Are Paid To Say Anything To Get Their Clients Off
When criminals get caught their lawyers will make any stupid, ridiculous argument they can think of to get their clients off because that’s what lawyers are paid to do; they are paid to come up with any lie that might work.
Usually, the lies are of the “It wasn’t him” or “She wasn’t raped. She wanted to have sex with my client” variety, but when the evidence of guilt is incontrovertible their excuses become more outrageous.
Remember the “affluenza” defense — “My client shouldn’t be blamed for killing four people while driving drunk because he was so spoiled by his parents that he lost the ability to tell right from wrong.”
The Appeasement Defense
As offensive as the Affluenza Defense is, the Appeasement Defense is even worse.
“Yes, my client planted the bomb on the school bus, but my client and his fellow terrorists are angry people who feel that the world isn’t operating the way they think it should, and finding the defendant guilty would really upset the other terrorists a lot, so, in order to avoid more terrorist bombings we should find him not guilty in the hope that once he is acquitted his fellow terrorists will like us more.”
Or:
“Yes, my client planted the bomb on the school bus, but these terrorists are angry people and we need to heal the divisions in our society. Convicting the defendant will only widen the divide between the innocent children who are blown up on bombed school buses and the terrorists who plant the bombs, therefore, we should find him innocent so that the terrorists aren’t so mad at us.”
Is that a good argument, that the terrorist bomb maker should be declared not guilty in the hope that falsely saying he didn’t blow up the school bus, even though we know he did, will make other terrorists more likely to give up their mass-murdering ways and be all nice to us again?
The Republican Members Of Congress Know Trump Is Guilty
Well, that’s essentially the Republicans’ argument why Senators should find Donald Trump not guilty of committing an impeachable offense.
Not that he didn’t do it.
The leader of the House of Representatives’ Republican members, Kevin McCarthy admitted:
“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters.”
The Republican senators know that Trump incited the violent attack on Congress for the purpose of preventing the winner of the election, Joe Biden, from becoming President.
The third highest ranking Republican in the House, Liz Cheney, daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, said:
“The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Pretending That Trump Is Innocent Will Please His Followers
The Republicans’ theory why the Senate should find Trump not guilty of committing an impeachable offense when they know he actually is guilty of committing an impeachable offense is that by admitting Trump did something wrong the Senate would upset the rioters and their supporters while on the other hand pretending that Trump did nothing wrong will help convince the rioters and their supporters that we can all be just one big happy family again.
The Republicans’ Appeasement Argument
The Republicans’ Appeasement argument for voting “no” on the charge of committing an impeachable offense is:
“We should not formally admit that Trump did anything wrong because that will upset his supporters who don’t want to admit that he ever did anything wrong.”
It’s difficult to find enough adjectives to properly characterize the Republicans’ “Don’t Say Trump Did Something Bad Because His Supporters Won’t Like It” argument.
In other words,
“Don’t admit that the terrorist did something wrong by planting the bomb on the school bus because that would upset the other terrorists who don’t think there’s anything wrong with planting bombs on school buses.”
Appeasement Doesn’t Work
When in 1935 and 1936 the British government decided to appease Hitler in the belief that appeasement would prevent another war, they instead proved that appeasing bad people will not deter them from future bad acts. Just the opposite.
Appeasement Actually Encourages More Bad Actions
Emboldened by the Brits’ appeasement, in September 1939 Hitler gave the order to invade Poland.
We all know that appeasing criminals does not make them commit fewer crimes. We all know that appeasing criminals actually encourages them to commit MORE crimes. DUH!
Remember the first time Trump was impeached and Republican Senator Susan Collins voted against conviction, arguing that Trump had learned his lesson and that she was sure he wouldn’t do anything bad again?
How did that work out, Senator Collins?
If Convicted Trump Will Suffer No Material Punishment
But even worse than the Republicans’ criminally stupid, insultingly stupid, horrible, flawed, false argument that admitted wrong-doers should falsely be declared innocent because acknowledging their guilt will make other criminals mad while finding them innocent will convince other criminals to stop committing crimes, is the fact that even if convicted Trump won’t suffer any real punishment!
At least with the terrorist bus-bomber the appeasers could say, “Don’t convict him because that will mean he’ll get twenty years in prison which will really piss off the other terrorists.”
A conviction here doesn’t mean Trump gets executed. He doesn’t get locked up. He doesn’t get fined. He doesn’t even get removed from office before the end of his term!
A Conviction Only Acknowledges That Trump Did Something Very Wrong
A Senate conviction does nothing more than formally admit what individual Republicans have already publicly admitted: “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters.”
But the Republicans don’t even have the decency to do that because he’s one of them.
Is It Even Possible To Measure How Corrupt The Republican Party Is?
When the Republican Party’s highest elected members’ response to a President whom they admit incited his followers to mount a violent attack on Congress for the purpose of preventing Trump’s opponent from taking office is:
- “Don’t admit that Trump’s inciting the attack on Congress was wrong because doing that will upset Trump’s supporters”
you have to ask the rhetorical question
- “How criminally bad, corrupt, dreadful, atrocious, crooked, unscrupulous, unprincipled, toxic and rotten — I’m running out of adjectives again here — is the Republican Party itself?”
What value is big enough to accurately answer that question?
— David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
