Nancy Pelosi: McConnell and the GOP Senate are accomplices to Trump's wrongdoing

[Zorro]

For more than 200 years, our republic has endured, not only because of the wisdom of our Founders and the brilliance of our Constitution, but because of the generations of patriotic Americans who have had the courage to risk their lives to defend it.

But, tragically, the American people have watched President Trump and Republicans in Congress dismantle the Constitution that we cherish.

The House impeachment managers, led by Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), presented to the Senate and the public an incontrovertible truth that the president himself has admitted: President Trump abused the power of his office to pressure a foreign power to help him cheat in an American election. And when he was caught, the president launched an unprecedented coverup to block Congress from holding him accountable. The president’s actions undermined our national security, jeopardized the integrity of our elections and violated the Constitution.

Pundits and reporters who lament this erosion in decorum are wildly missing the point, says Post opinion writer Greg Sargent. (Video: Joy Sharon Yi/Photo: Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)
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The Democrats in the Senate under the leadership of Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) patriotically voted unanimously to honor the oath to support and defend the Constitution. They, along with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), deserve our gratitude for their moral courage.
The president’s lawyers all but concede his misconduct. Their argument was only that Congress and the American people have no right to stop him from using his power to cheat in our elections. With their vote, Senate Republicans embraced this darkest vision of power: that if the president believes his reelection is good for the country, he can then use any means necessary to win, with no accountability or consequences.

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[Iliyah]

1. Damn straight . . . .

[SamKnause]

2. Duh.

Aided, abetted, and enabled.

Trump could not have accomplished all his evil without the help of Mitch, Lindsey, Nunes,

Jordan, Gohmert, Kennedy, Cassidy and the list goes on and on.

Of course they are accomplices.

[Desert grandma]

3. VOTE THEM OUT

and lock them up!!!

[global1]

4. Which Is Why We Just Can't Run Against Trump.....

We must run against the Repugs. They are the root of our problems and Trump is distracting us from informing the American People how they - in the shadow of Trump - are methodically taking this country down.

We have to make sure all the down Party Repug candidates lose in November. We must maintain the House and win back the Senate as well as the WH.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Well, we'd better not take any charges off the table, then

This time.