The U.S. Senate voted 56 to 44 on Tuesday, Feb. 9, to pass the petition for a hearing on Trump‘s impeachment. Rep. Greene criticized the impact on Congress to destroy the Republican evidence. Prominent writers point out that Democrats insist on the purpose of impeaching Trump.
144 well-known jurists, including the former dean of Harvard Law School, published an open letter openly threatening Trump lawyers, implying that defending Trump’s free speech can be revoked. The former Harvard director said that the crackdown on Trump is a prelude to the collapse of American civilization.
Experts on China analyzed that Xi Jinping is aggressive, the Biden administration is appeasing and patient, and Europe is pouring cold water on Biden.
U.S. Senate opens Trump impeachment case, only 6 Republicans voted for it
The U.S. Senate passed a petition for hearing on Trump’s impeachment case on Tuesday, Feb. 9. After several hours of hearings, senators voted on the constitutionality of the trial, with the final vote being 56 to 44, with six Republicans voting in favor. Former Harvard University director Dowry said the crackdown on Trump is a prelude to the collapse of American civilization.
Photo: Timothy Blodgett, acting sergeant at the Armory, leads the nine Democrats impeachment managers to the Senate floor on Feb. 9
On Tuesday, six Republican senators joined with Democrats to say they believe the trial is constitutional. The result is similar to an advance vote late last month, after five Republicans announced their support for the trial.
In a late January vote, Republican Senators Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitt Romney (Utah), Ben Sasse (Nebraska) and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) had previously voted to say the trial process was constitutional, but withheld judgment on the outcome of the trial.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), a Republican, reversed his vote in the latest one, joining the five minority Republicans.
Impeachment trial hearings are expected to continue into next week. Beginning Feb. 10, Democrats and Trump’s defense bar will each be allowed up to 16 hours of debate, with no more than eight hours of debate per day. Later, there will be Time for senators to ask questions and possibly other procedural votes.
On Tuesday, the House’s impeachment manager released edited video that stitched together the most violent and chaotic images from the Jan. 6 protesters’ storming of Congress and intertwined Trump’s remarks in the film to try to convince Congress Trump had something to do with the congressional riots.
Trump’s defense attorney said the defense has no right to try Trump because he is a citizen and not a president. Nor should the events in Congress be blamed on Trump.
Before the impeachment hearings began, the lawyers released a statement blasting Democrats for taking Trump’s statements out of context, making subjective comments and misinterpreting them, saying the Democrats’ impeachment of Trump was “self-serving” and only for political gain.
The latest vote still reflects a tough situation for Democratic impeachment managers, with the bill requiring the support of 17 Republican senators.
Rep. Greene criticizes shocking Congress to undermine Republican evidence
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Texas) criticized the congressional shocks for undermining a congressional challenge that Republican lawmakers had been preparing for days, suggesting the shocks had nothing to do with Trump.
In a series of tweets Tuesday, Greene said the impeachment was a “circus of Democratic media thugs” designed to “entertain a population that has been brainwashed by them and addicted to hate.
She also criticized the organizers of the Jan. 6 congressional storming: “The attack undermined the challenge we spent weeks preparing for and ruined our efforts to reach Trump and his constituents.”
She continued, “The night before (the storming of Congress), they placed bombs at both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. They didn’t just target one party. They were targeting Republicans and Democrats. They were fighting the entire government.”
Greene was referring to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claimed on Jan. 6 that bombs had been found in two separate buildings at the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. Only later did the FBI announce that the bombs had been placed in the buildings on the evening of Jan. 5.
According to media reports, those who stormed Congress included members of the far-left Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa. These groups are accused of regularly staging violent anti-government protests, which have continued after Biden took office.
Prominent Author: Impeachment of Trump aims to punish American voters
On Sunday (Feb. 7), American journalist and author Lee Smith analyzed that the Democrats’ insistence on impeaching Trump is aimed at getting back at Trump voters.
Smith, author of Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President, spoke Sunday with SiriusXM satellite broadcaster ( SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Sunday” program.
Photo: Trump issued a statement on Feb. 6, 2020, the day after the Senate officially acquitted him of the impeachment trial.
“This is not about Trump,” Smith said of the impeachment of the 45th president of the United States, “It’s about punishing Trump voters, ‘We’re going to tell you who you should vote for,’ and that’s what happened in 2016, right Right? That’s what Russiagate is all about. How dare you not vote for Hillary (Hillary Clinton)? …… Because you didn’t vote for her, we’re going to make it painful for you. We will use the president you elected as a tool.”
“By making Trump miserable, they are using him as a tool to hurt the American public. …… This will not only hurt Trump’s supporters, but with it will destroy the foundation of the Republic. That’s what they’re trying to do, that’s what impeachment is all about.”
Smith added that this would further humiliate the American electorate, who believe they have the right to choose who governs them.
Smith noted that American elites are disenchanted with democracy. They particularly despise democracy, and not just in the abstract as a political system. They despise the people and believe they should only be ruled. The elites who now run America – most of them Democrats – disapprove of the idea that they must share power with other Americans.
By putting pressure on Americans who have profited from the U.S.-China relationship, and who have gained what Marxists call class consciousness, Trump has worked together to fight back against him, thus further cementing their relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. Smith said the pro-CCP American oligarchs are not in competition with the CCP, whose dictatorial regime is their role model.
“What is clear is that Biden’s inauguration is a sign of the hegemony of the U.S. oligarchy, which sees its relationship with the CCP as a shield and sword against its own countrymen.” Smith further analyzed that, like the Thirty Tyrants of Athens, they not only despised the natural rights granted to all citizens by their Creator, but they especially hated the fact that those they ruled They not only despise the natural rights granted to all citizens by their Creator, but they especially hate the fact that those they rule have the same rights as they do.
Torrey: Crackdown on Trump is a prelude to the collapse of American civilization
In a Feb. 8 tweet, Harvard University Director John Murray wrote that the cornerstone of civilized modern politics is not democracy, but the rule of law, dating back more than 800 years to the British Magna Carta, which established the principle that the king is under the law.
144 prominent jurists, including the former dean of Harvard Law School, issued an open letter openly threatening Trump lawyers, suggesting that defending Trump’s freedom of speech could get his license revoked.
The trampling of the rule of law, the threatening of lawyers, and the use of the law as a tool of persecution is a prelude to the collapse of civilized society, said Dowry.
Beijing‘s aggressive approach, Washington’s strategic patience, and the EU’s punch in the face to Biden
U.S.-based scholar He Qinglian recently wrote in Apple Daily that the world is waiting for the U.S. to announce its policy on China. The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly extended a barbed olive branch without response, and finally on February 2, Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in charge of foreign affairs, delivered a speech on U.S.-China relations, a video address in a venue that embraces the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the stronghold of the panda faction, in an imposing manner.
On February 4, Biden laid out his foreign policy, with the keynote remaining “strategic patience,” and on February 6, after Secretary of State Blinken’s first call with Yang Jiechi, the two countries announced what they each wanted, but largely repeated what they had previously said.
In his speech, Yang Jiechi characterized the Trump Administration‘s policy toward China over the past few years as “an extremely misguided anti-China Policy that has left Sino-U.S. relations with serious difficulties unprecedented since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
A demand list was then issued.
- a new strategic consensus to be built.
- a dramatic change in the status between China and the United States, with China’s comprehensive power catching up with that of the United States, and the need for the United States to recognize this fact.
- the U.S. side should effectively fulfill the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqué commitments, strictly abide by the one-China principle, and effectively respect China’s position and concerns on the Taiwan issue; it should stop meddling in issues involving China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, such as Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, and stop trying to hold back China’s development by interfering in its internal affairs.
- The U.S. side should not abuse the concept of national security; economic and trade issues should not be politicized and the concept of “national security” should not be abused. China welcomes U.S. enterprises to operate and invest in China, and both sides should provide a fair, open and non-discriminatory environment for each other’s enterprises.
- Resume Confucius Institutes and related academic exchanges.
He Qinglian pointed out that the aggressive momentum of Yang Jiechi’s speech was like forcing a defeated country to sign an alliance under the city. The theme of the film is to satirize Obama’s election, and the Chinese Communist military, which helped him win, asked him to fulfill his promise, with full irony.
Following Yang Jiechi’s remarks, White House spokesman Leonardo Psaki said on Feb. 2 that the U.S. would communicate with China only after prioritizing dialogue with other allies and partner countries – a remark she previously summarized as “strategic patience” when she said Biden had been patient enough with China. A State Department spokesman expressed the same opinion at a press conference the same day.
While Blinken, the head of U.S. diplomacy, was waiting to join the Cabinet, his pro-China stance and that of the other three founders of WestExec Advisors, all senior Obama administration officials, were questioned. The strength of WestExec Advisors is to help clients “penetrate the Chinese market,” claiming they can “develop strategies to expand market access in China while preventing trade tensions between the United States and China. Since taking office, Biden has signed a number of executive orders favorable to the Chinese Communist Party, such as pulling the State Department website from topics such as the Chinese Communist threat and 5G, banning the federal government from saying “China virus,” and delaying the ban on investment in Chinese Communist military companies, among others.
On February 1, Blinken stated his stance on a number of foreign policy issues in an exclusive interview with NBC. While reiterating that the Chinese Communist Party poses the greatest challenge to the United States compared to other countries, he noted the complex nature of the U.S.-China relationship, which encompasses adversarial dimensions, competitive dimensions, and opportunities for cooperation on some issues, and emphasized that regardless of the dimensions, the U.S. must approach the relationship with China from a position of strength rather than a position of vulnerability – note the “cooperation” versus “position of vulnerability. cooperation” and “position of vulnerability. His statement that Hong Kong people are welcome to immigrate to the United States effectively suggests that this is the extent of what the Biden Administration can do for Hong Kong.
The U.S. also lost an important step on the coup in Burma, and was reminded by China of the blatant fraud in the 2020 election, which made the U.S. look very weak and humiliated.
In his first foreign policy address at the State Department on February 4, Biden, in full agreement with Blinken’s assertions, emphasized that the current administration will focus on cooperation with allies, called the Chinese Communist Party “the most serious competitor” of the United States, and said the United States will respond to China’s aggressive posture on human rights, intellectual property rights and global governance, but is willing to work with Beijing when it is in the U.S. interest – -different in nature than Trump’s positioning of the Chinese Communist Party as a “threat to U.S. interests.
The Biden administration’s expectation of partnering with the EU against the CCP was met with a splash of ice water from France: On Feb. 4, French President Emmanuel Macron told a webinar organized by the Atlantic Council that the EU should not partner with the United States against the CCP, even though it is closer to Washington’s position because of shared values.
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