2/13/2021

2020 ELECTION/CHUCK SCHUMER/CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT: “The case of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial was open and shut. President Trump told a lie, a big lie, that the election was stolen and that he was the rightful winner. He laid the groundwork for this big lie in the months before the election, he told the big lie on election night, and he repeated the big lie more than 100 times in the weeks afterwards.

He summoned his supporters to Washington, assembled them on the ellipse, whipped them into a frenzy and directed them at the Capitol. And then he watched as the violence unfolded and the capitol was breached, and his own vice-president fled for his life, and President Trump did nothing…

January 6th will live as a day of infamy in the history of the United States of America. The failure to convict Donald Trump will live as a vote of infamy in the history of the United States Senate.”

Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate majority leader, via PBS NewsHour, “WATCH: Failure to convict Trump is ‘vote of infamy,’ Sen. Schumer says,” YouTube.com, Feb. 13, 2021