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57 senators condemn him, 43 absolve him. Not arithmetic wins but American Pontius Pilate


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The five days of intense debate in the US Senate on Trump's second impeachment trial were a film that kept tens of millions of Americans glued to television, fascinated by the pace at which so-called House managers cadenced their indictments of the former US president.

The embarrassment in the Republican ranks has also grown supported by the impetitude of the trampist defense college made up of super lawyers with super parcels but whose performance in defense of the interests of their representative has been deemed insufficient.

Moreover, expressed in an aggressive way by third-level courts certainly not in line with the atmosphere of the highest American institutional body. So much so that they were repeatedly stigmatised by the President-in-Office of the sitting.

Yet we have to tell our dear reader that we were blown away by the closing speech of Mitch McConnell, the powerful leader of the Republican senators.

We suggest following him by opening the video posted below.

But for those who have little time to devote to American affairs, it should be better to specify that the aforementioned powerful Republican politician (for decades in the senate spotlight), designed his speech with a series of accusations against his former President Donald Trump that confirmed and in some cases amplified those made by Democrats during their multifaceted interventions.

So much so that, listening to this elderly character, the question spontaneously arises: "But where does he want to go? On the basis of what has been said so far, he will certainly resign from his post..."

And instead Mitch McConnell after vigorously underscored the complete practical and moral responsibility of his former president in the organization, incitement, support of the thousands of domestic terrorists who on January 6 "conquered" with violence and bloodshed  Capitol Hill (even chasing Republican Vice President Mike Pense and house speaker Pelosi to kill them) took refuge in the corner.

Entrenched behind a literal interpretation of the second article of the Constitution, he concluded his speech by justifying his vote and that of 42 other Republican senators acquitting the eccentric former president.

We are convinced that back home the president of the Republican senators will have somehow had to clarify his attitude to his wife, a former transportation secretary, who in the final weeks of the Trump presidency had found the courage to present the resigning evidence from a government now in disarray.

The singular speech of this important Republican figure then ended by arguing that in the face of the Senate's inability to convict Donald Trump because the 57 'yea' were not enough to reach three-quarters of the entire Senate, however the ordinary judicial system could have put him on trial as a normal citizen.

And automatically there came to mind that Pontius Pilate, prefect of the Roman province of Judea who in the Gospel of Matthew when, faced with the drama of Jesus, washes his hands of it in front of the crowd saying: "I am not responsible for this blood; see it for you!".

Here: it was not a nice to see the closure of a page that you call historic considering that on January 6, 2021 the United States of America ran the risk of a coup organized and incited by its president.

But the Senate acquittal does not shield American democracy from a further attempt at violent upheaval to turn it into an autocracy with only one man in charge and above the law.

Donald's already working on it, thanks to Mitch McConnell and 42 other Republican colleagues.


 

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