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Lindsey Graham: A Senate impeachment trial will 'indefinitely' delay national healing
Washington Examiner ^ | JANUARY 17, 2021 | MICA SOELLNER

Posted on 01/17/2021 11:19:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Sen. Lindsey Graham said if the Senate doesn't dismiss the impeachment article against President Trump, national healing could be delayed "indefinitely."

The South Carolina Republican urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will soon become the majority leader, that a Senate trial for Trump's second impeachment would be an "unconstitutional act of political vengeance."

"In your first act as Majority Leader, rather than begin the national healing that the country so desperately yearns for, you seek vengeance and political retaliation instead," Graham wrote in a letter sent Sunday.

Graham added that the impeachment of a president no longer in office will potentially leave the country eternally divided.

"We will be delaying indefinitely, if not forever, the healing of this great nation," he said.

Other allies of Trump have echoed Graham's calls that the second impeachment is "unconstitutional."

Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that there's precedent to suggest a president shouldn't be impeached once they leave office.

The Harvard Law professor cited there was no effort to impeach President Richard Nixon once he left office and a failed effort to remove the secretary of war in 1876. He claimed there is no jurisdiction to put Trump as a private citizen on trial.

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1 posted on 01/17/2021 11:19:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have news for you, you POS.

There will be no “national healing” over this.


2 posted on 01/17/2021 11:20:57 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Healing” from what?

The stolen election?


3 posted on 01/17/2021 11:21:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If taking a large butcher knife and ripping open the guts of the nation is what the demented traitorous Linda deems “national healing”, then I would just as soon delay it.


4 posted on 01/17/2021 11:21:49 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

Let’s get the bad guys right here....Pelosi, Schumer and their boot lickers.


5 posted on 01/17/2021 11:23:07 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about a trial for the Biden family for the billions in foreign money they got from the Ukraine, the mayor of Moscow and a BILLION and a half from the Chinese communist government???!!!


6 posted on 01/17/2021 11:23:46 AM PST by high info voter
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The complete and total demise of the GOP will go a very long way toward healing our country.

Trump Party!


7 posted on 01/17/2021 11:23:47 AM PST by Howie66 (I Weep For Our Republic )
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To: rlmorel

Yep.

Ain’t no coming back from total abandonment of rule of law.

The progs went WAY too far and now the consequences are going to appear.

.


8 posted on 01/17/2021 11:24:01 AM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

National healing is not the plan. National obedience and/or submission is the plan.


9 posted on 01/17/2021 11:24:30 AM PST by The Accused
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

<><> The Constitution requires impeachment as the vehicle for removal of an errant president.

<><> It says NOTHING about impeaching a president who is out of office.

House impeachment will be used by the out-party as a periodic club to wound a first-term president. President-elect Biden should beware. (VDH)

Petition to impeach Joe Biden

https://conservativechange.com/petition/impeach-joe-biden/

A article to Impeach Biden filed this week
Next week, file two articles of impeachment against him
The week after, file 3 articles of impeachment against him
The week after add one more and ...etc etc etc

posted on 1/17/2021, 6:16:48 AM by antidemoncrat


10 posted on 01/17/2021 11:24:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve seem some writers declare that it will become a common
realization that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

Most of us are already there.


11 posted on 01/17/2021 11:26:14 AM PST by DoughtyOne (We are all to be treated like the Randy Weaver family and Banch Dividian folks now.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the era of double-speak, we need terms defined. Healing <> submission to the Communists. There is no “healing” for me, using any definition of the term, for multiple stolen elections.


12 posted on 01/17/2021 11:26:48 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When Maria asked him this morning why he waited until now to release unclassified documents related to the Obama scandal...weasel Graham danced around and never answered.

Graham is a major contributor to what is wrong with this country.


13 posted on 01/17/2021 11:26:49 AM PST by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who does this clown even thinks he represents?


14 posted on 01/17/2021 11:27:47 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Shut up Graham. It doesn’t matter now at all what they do. Since they militarized Washington to protect themselves when they couldn’t call out the National Guard to stop the violent rioting with assaults and murder of innocent civilians, it’s NEVER going to be healed. I was upset over it all and resigned to unjust defeat, but now I am enraged beyond repair or concern for my life.


15 posted on 01/17/2021 11:28:15 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Lindsay “put some ice on that” Graham.


16 posted on 01/17/2021 11:28:41 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Grampa Dave

House impeachment will be used by the out-party as a periodic club to wound a first-term president. President-elect Biden should beware. (VDH)

Petition to impeach Joe Biden

The GOP would never bite the hand that feeds them. Worse, the GOP does not control any branch of government and likely will never again.


17 posted on 01/17/2021 11:28:51 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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How exactly does amputated justice heal?


18 posted on 01/17/2021 11:29:13 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Too bad China Mitch doesn’t see it that way. I wasn’t planning on healing with the rats anyway. I’ve disowned every liberal friend and family member I have so it won’t be a problem ignoring a fake administration and propaganda media for four years. I don’t miss the propaganda state run media or social media one bit.


19 posted on 01/17/2021 11:30:30 AM PST by jersey117
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Healing?

I’m expecting astronomical gas prices, jobs lost, communities overrun with new citizens who do not speak the same language, etc.


20 posted on 01/17/2021 11:33:05 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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