{"id":13270,"date":"2020-03-19T00:38:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2020-12-06T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:04:54","slug":"trump-impeachment-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/13270\/opinion\/trump-impeachment-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s acquittal a disgrace in American history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial in the Senate began Jan 16. It was the third impeachment trial in U.S. history, which ended in his acquittal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outcome of Trump\u2019s impeachment in the Senate was rigged by the Republicans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Dec. 12, Senate Majority Leader and Republican Mitch McConnell admitted that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;everything I do during this I&#8217;m coordinating with the White House counsel.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McConnell said, \u201cThere will be no difference between the president&#8217;s position and our position as to how to handle this.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaker of the House and Democrat Nancy Pelosi sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate after a long wait, although we believe she should have kept them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as former President Bill Clinton\u2019s approval ratings raised after his impeachment acquittal, the same happened with President Trump\u2019s, who went from 47% &#8211; 49% in a poll conducted by political website FiveThirtyEight.com on Feb. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside>\n    <div class='related sno-6a4af93f51fee relatedvert left sno-animate'>\n        <h5>Related Stories<\/h5>\n                                                                    <h5 class=\"relatedtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/13242\/opinion\/the-united-states-foreign-policy-harms-more-than-it-heals\/\">American public disagrees with Trump foreign policy<\/a><\/h5>\n                                                            <div class='relateddivider'><\/div>\n                                                            <h5 class=\"relatedtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/12961\/opinion\/reasons-why-president-trump-has-ruined-america\/\">Reasons why President Trump has ruined America<\/a><\/h5>\n                                                            <div class='relateddivider'><\/div>\n                                                            <h5 class=\"relatedtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/12929\/social-justice\/trump-on-the-run\/\">Trump on the run<\/a><\/h5>\n                                        <div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<style>\n.sno-6a4af93f51fee {\n\tborder: 5px solid #212121;float: left; margin: 30px 30px 30px 0px;}\n.sno-6a4af93f51fee h5 {\n\tcolor: #000000;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our consensus is that if Pelosi had kept the articles, she could have chastised McConnell, who was predetermining the result of the impeachment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This would have kept pressure on Trump, who would be perpetually worried about his low approval ratings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, he can arrogantly parade around the country boasting that he \u201cdid nothing wrong,\u201d just as he did on Twitter Jan. 24 when referring to the so-called \u201cimpeachment hoax.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial in the Senate began Jan 16. 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