Trump celebrates acquittal in Senate trial, foreshadows political future: ‘Much to share’

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By Tyler Olson

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday thanked his lawyers and senators who voted against his impeachment conviction and foreshadowed his political future in a statement following the 57-43 Senate vote to acquit him of inciting an insurrection.

“I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth,” Trump said. “My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country.”

He added: “This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago.”

Trump did not make any statements during the impeachment trial, and his statement Saturday is his first all week.



The vote Saturday was significantly more votes than the 48-52 vote in his 2020 Senate trial but still 10 short of what would have been needed to convict.

Trump also foreshadowed his political future.

“Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun,”

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Historic win.
Unlawful impeachment attempts: 2

Actual Trump impeachments?

ZERO

Un-impeached Trump. Victorious again.

@Nathan Blue: Teddy bear Cruz is cutting it up on Twitter.
Can you imagine a member of congress actually sworn in to tell the truth? Nancy Pelosi no less, no wonder the whole witness thing crashed and burned.

America 2 Totalitarians 0

@Eric Farrands: How could Trump “call off the hounds”? They weren’t his. There is no possibility a case this weak would ever be brought in a legitimate court. As was clearly shown, there WAS no incitement. Dream on.

@Eric Farrands:

TROLL ALERT

@Deplorable Me:

If you can still support Trump after learning that he knew Pence had been evacuated and still didn’t issue a public statement urging rioters to go home until hours later, then you’re a bigger scumbag than Trump.

@Craig Melendez:

TROLL ALERT

@Craig Melendez: Sorry, moron. That’s not the silver bullet you’re being indoctrinated to believe it is.

And you’re a f*cling scumbag for supporting Marxists who ignore the law, due process, and rig elections.

The Capitol riot was a false flag.

Leftists commit the violence. Not Trump.

@Nathan Blue, #8:

Leftists commit the violence. Not Trump.

So you’re suggesting that Trump was going to abandon his Vice President to a angry lynch mob of violent leftists?

@Greg:

So you’re suggesting that Trump was going to abandon his Vice President to a angry lynch mob of violent leftists?

Oh, is that the latest hoax?

Partisan garbage. Easily dismissed.

Any headway on that real impeachment for Dictator Biden?

That’s actual evidence and not doctored videos.

@Craig Melendez: How do you think Trump could control the mob that was in the Capital? They were led and motivated by BLM/ANTIFA and were not following any directions from Trump. I’m not so stupid as to consider someone guilty of a charge when all the evidence proves otherwise. Anyone that does is a scumbag, especially when they refuse to hold their own leaders to the same standard.

How can you support the idiot Biden when he has incited and not called on BLM/ANTIFA to cease their violence? How can you support the idiot Biden knowing he got to the White House through fraud? How can you support the idiot Biden knowing he is a life-long racist? How can you support the idiot Biden knowing he is a CCP puppet? You’re a bigger idiot than he is.

@Greg: Trump told the mayor and Congress he had 10,000 troops ready at their disposal. Why didn’t they call on them? Why is their negligence Trump’s responsibility? That’s why the cowards backed away from witnesses; their culpability would have been exposed. In fact, why are they so stupid as to obviously believe this was the first incident of violence that has ever happened? Had left wing violent behavior been faced by law enforcement and put down harshly in the beginning, no one would have the impression that storming the Capital was nothing but an opportunities for selfies. Yet, even as this national embarrassment of a farce procedure was ongoing, BLM/ANTIFA attacked DC, Seattle, Olympia, Portland and NYC WITHOUT a word of denouncing the violence from Democrats. Beyond any argument, the left promotes violence committed in its name.

@Nathan Blue: Yeah, that’s the latest hoax they are throwing against the wall hoping it sticks to SOMETHING. Of course, their followers are mostly stupid enough to embrace it.

@Greg:

comrade greggy poo: so why weren’t you in d.c. to protest? no bus ticket, bike broken, dui on drivers licence with yellow plates would have been a problem. are you a member or supporting member of black terrorist movement or antif**k-up? Trump played the child abuse killer rankin and the scum bags commicrats and treasonous republicans like a jv girl’s field hockey team. The Art of the Deal, you really need to read it.
During the bogus and faux impeachment trial the commicrats debated and fawned over over words of their choosing. the habits of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency of which the commicrats engaged in. Likewise, the tongue is the most mobile structure in the human body. William Blake wrote:
A Truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

Suggest that you aquire, if you have the financial resources a book entitled Language in Thought and Action by S.I Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa.

@Deplorable Me, #11:

Trump told the mayor and Congress he had 10,000 troops ready at their disposal. Why didn’t they call on them?

Because neither the mayor of Washington DC nor Congress have authority to do so, Sherlock.

Only the President of the United States has authority to activate Washington DC’s own National Guard. The specific task of the DC National Guard is to protect DC and respond to such emergencies. That’s their entire point.

Only the President of the United States—and the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army by presidential delegation—have authority to call state units of the National Guard into Washington DC. That includes the National Guards of Maryland and Virginia.

Why the hell do you think people were frantically trying to call Trump for help?

@Greg:

Because neither the mayor of Washington DC nor Congress have authority to do so, Sherlock.

Well, SHERLOCK, they absolutely do. Unless Trump calls a state of emergency, THEY are the ones that call the Guard. Plus, as we have seen, there was ample intelligence for them to have had increased law enforcement presence there before hand. If you haven’t figured it out yet, this was set up and STAGED.

@MOS#8541, #12:

The Senate impeachment trial vote was 57 guilty vs. 43 not guilty, and a number of those voting not guilty—including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a long-time Trump supporter—subsequently opined that Trump was clearly guilty of dereliction of duty and failure to honor his oath of office, but that they voted to acquit because they believed it was unconstitutional to try a man who was already out of office. McConnell made that statement on the floor of the Senate after the trial. It is not part of the official Senate record.

McConnell also openly acknowledged that Trump’s election fraud claim was a lie, as pretty much everyone but Trump’s cult followers already know.

I don’t believe William Blake has actually weighed in on the matter.

@Deplorable Me:

Well, SHERLOCK, they absolutely do. Unless Trump calls a state of emergency, THEY are the ones that call the Guard.

Uh, no. Neither the Mayor of DC nor Congress have any such authority. They ABSOLUTELY CANNOT call out the National Guard. They are nowhere in that chain of command.

Nor is Mike Pence. VP Pence called the Pentagon to request National Guard assistance because the Acting Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army have delegated authority to activate the nearby Maryland National Guard. If they elect do so, they are of course answerable to the Commander in Chief.

Neither of them could have ordered the DC National Guard to respond to the emergency. Only the President can call out the DC National Guard. That authority has been delegated to no one else.

An order from Trump would have resulted in immediate action. All he had to do was pick up the telephone.

@Greg: I just keep asking the same question, expecting, foolishly apparently, an answer one day. IF the evidence was so clear that Trump was guilty, WHY did the Democrats feel they had to LIE and edit video? Couldn’t they, as the Republicans did, simply provide the actual evidence?

NO ONE is fooled by their corruption. It’s simply a matter that some accept it.

@Greg: https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-officers-issue-vote-of-no-confidence-for-top-leadership?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mjk&fbclid=IwAR12i6yKqwiC4i46b8orLrOhklxu3pRUvDpURyoSRs_pRqjt3z_0w0ZlslE

Pittman explained former Chief Sund’s concern two days before the attack took place, noting that on January 4, Sund “requested that the Capitol Police Board declare a state of emergency and authorize a request to secure National Guard support.” She acknowledged that the Board denied Sund’s request, instead encouraging him to “contact the DC National Guard to determine how many Guardsman could be sent to the Capitol on short notice, which he did.”

Well… SHERLOCK?

I guess while they pretend to honor and respect the Capital Police, Schumer, Pelosi and McConnell have been blaming them for their own incompetence. Now, where’s Officer Sicknick’s autopsy? Why does that have to be hidden? Hiding something? Something there the left doesn’t want known?

@Deplorable Me, #18:

Well, what?

Chief Sund was requesting permission from the Capitol Police Board to allow him to ask for National Guard support two days before Trump’s rally speech had taken place. He had concerns. Apparently his superiors didn’t share them. There was no violent right-wing protest or siege of the Capitol Building in progress.

What bearing does that have on the fact that Donald Trump sat on his posterior for two hours after mob violence ceased being a hypothetical occurrence, ignoring pleas to send assistance?

@Greg: Your hatred blinds you from obvious facts. First, how did Trump incite anything days in advance? Next repeat again WHO is requesting the National Guard. Apparently someone other than Trump can get that done and Trump HAD made 10,000 troops available.

Apparently, Democrats WANTED this to happen.

@Deplorable Me, #20:

Next repeat again WHO is requesting the National Guard. Apparently someone other than Trump can get that done and Trump HAD made 10,000 troops available.

You are 100 percent WRONG on that point, as has already been explained.

Only Trump could activate the District of Columbia’s own National Guard units—no one else can do so. Only Trump, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Army could send any state National Guard units into the District of Columbia—no one else can do so. Neither the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Army is likely to do so when their Commander in Chief is capable of making such a decision.

January 7, 2021 – VERIFY: Who controls the National Guard and how are they deployed?

WASHINGTON — Amidst insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, reports emerged that local leaders wanted to deploy National Guardsmen, but that their requests were allegedly being denied by the federal government.

D.C. Council issued this statement via Twitter on January 6:

“Today, the Department of Defense denied a request by Mayor Muriel Bowser to expand the responsibilities of the District of Columbia National Guard so that they would be authorized to protect and restore order at the Capitol Building. That request was denied.”

It continued to state that the Council “is in full support of the Mayor’s request. We are appalled that this fundamental request was denied. We urge the Department of Defense to reconsider their decision, and to allow the National Guard to restore safety and sanctity to the Capitol, the cornerstone of our Democracy.”

Governor Hogan said Thursday that he mobilized Maryland forces, including Maryland State Police troopers and the Maryland National Guard to help, but that his requests were denied by the federal government.

“However we were repeatedly denied approval to do so,” Hogan said at a press conference Thursday. “Under federal law the Mayor of the District of Columbia does not have authority over the Guard, and we must receive approval from the Secretary of Defense before we’re able to send the Maryland National Guard across the border into the federal city into the District of Columbia.”

Hogan said the call came 90 minutes later.

“Approximately an hour and a half later, I got a call on my cell phone from the Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, who gave us the authority that we needed to be able to move into the city,” Hogan said.

Over in Virginia, Governor Northam deployed the commonwealth’s guardsmen.

So who is in charge of the National Guard?

According to the Army National Guard’s website, the National Guard serves a dual role, carrying out both state and federal missions.

“For state missions, the governor, through the state Adjutant General, commands Guard forces,” they write online. “The governor can call the National Guard into action during local or statewide emergencies, such as storms, fires, earthquakes or civil disturbances. In addition, the President of the United States can activate the National Guard for participation in federal missions.”

However, the DC National Guard in a unique situation, since they are controlled solely by the federal government, according to the DC National Guard website. That means they are the only National Guard unit out of all 54 states and territories that reports only to the President.

One of the reasons President Donald Trump can deploy so many federal forces in D.C. is because there is no statehood separating D.C. from his power. As a territory and not a state, President Donald Trump doesn’t have to consult and communicate with certain local officials.

“The D.C National Guard was formed in 1802 by President Thomas Jefferson to defend the newly created District of Columbia,” they write online. “As such, the Commanding General of D.C. National Guard is subordinate solely to the President of the United States. This authority to activate the D.C. National Guard has been delegated, by the President, to the Secretary of Defense and further delegated to the Secretary of the Army.”

That explains why Mayor Bowser needed permission to activate the DC National Guard, but why did other states’ guardsmen need permission to enter the city?

According to an Army press release, that’s because of the way it’s structured, and not until the next day.

“The DoD system is structured to require permission from the Secretary of Defense for out-of-state Guard units to enter the NCR (National Capital Region)” the statement reads in part. “We greatly appreciate the support from the entire National Guard team across the region to respond to law enforcement officers who needed help and we are proud of our Guard members who supported the lead agencies in this mission.”

According to that same release, the Maryland National Guard arrived at 10:00 a.m. on January 7, the Virginia National Guard arrived at noon Thursday.

“At Governor Larry Hogan’s direction, I have deployed 500 of Maryland’s Army National Guard soldiers assigned to the 58th troop command to respond to the crisis in Washington D.C.,” Major Gen. Timothy Gowen said in a January 8 media call, saying the troop serves as the “Maryland National Guard’s reaction force, and as such, they are well-trained and ready to support missions of this nature.”

So is the National Guard still deployed in the District?

Yes, and up to 6,200 of them are sticking around for up to 31 days, according to a press release.

“January 6, Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller approved up to 6,200 National Guardsmen to support civil authorities in the District of Columbia for up to 31 days under Title 32, 502(f) authority,” the statement says in part. “Currently the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware will be providing support.”

There are about 1,100 DC guardsmen and 500 Maryland guardsmen currently activated.

The National Guard had a call with media on Friday where they said they weren’t declining to help or denying requests — that many troops were already activated and ready to help DC in preparation of the inauguration.

“Most of our soldiers and airman that we were sending to the District of Columbia were already scheduled to go there to provide support for the upcoming presidential inauguration,” said Brig. General David Wood with Pennsylvania’s National Guard. “We’ve done this every four years since 2005.”

@Greg: Yawn.

Guess it’s time to own the fact that an un-elected dictator has the capital of our country under military control…because, well…he’s a dictator.

Too bad they couldn’t impeach Trump. He’s the untarnished 45th President of the United States FOREVER.

All the partisan media tripe is dismissed, since we know Billionaires are the prime swamp creatures who took over the government decades ago.

“What am I signing?”

“The country over to bankers and the primitive, un-cultured wannabes of the CCP. Nothing you haven’t signed before, Joe.”

Only Trump could activate the District of Columbia’s own National Guard units

“Only Trump” was supposed to do a lot of things, including being protected under the Constitution from hoax accusations and false trials.

The occupation of DC is on Democrat hands, period.

@Greg:

you are clueless to who is William Blake . you were never educated in the classics.

@Greg: Who deployed 35,000 troops?