By Aaron Miller-
Democrats fighting to desperately to remove President Trump from office have put in their best efforts to make the strongest case for the U.S president to be removed from office as the long impeachment trial reaches its final stages.
In his closing statement, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said that history will judge the Senate harshly if they let Trump stay in office without punishment
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“Today we urge you in the face of overwhelming evidence of the president’s guilt and knowing that if left in office he will continue to seek foreign interference in the next election, to vote to convict on both articles of impeachment and remove from office Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States,” he said. White House counsel Pat Cipollone summarised the arguments started by Ken Starr and asked Senators not to remove Trump from office and leave it to voters to decide during November’s elections.
“I urge you … on behalf of all of your constituents to reject these articles of impeachment,” Cipollone told senators. “It’s the right thing for our country, the president has done nothing wrong, and these types of impeachment must end. You will vindicate the right to vote, you will vindicate the Constitution, you will vindicate the rule of law by rejecting these articles.”
Schiff ended the day’s arguments by citing the Founding Fathers, telling senators that they put impeachment into the Constitution for exactly this kind of scenario. “We have proven Donald Trump guilty. Now, do impartial justice and convict him,” he urged.
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Schiff made an impassioned plea to what many would easily consider a tome deaf Senate who have already placed their stamp of approval on the President and know the plan is to keep him in power. There will have to be a tho thirds majority to get Trump out of office, and that simply won’t be happening on Wednesday. That didn’t stop Schiff from giving it his best in the nearly half an hour speech.
”you can’t trust this president to do the right thing, not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change. And you know it,’ he said.
‘Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and let Jared Kushner run the country, delegating to him the decision whether to go to war. Because those things are not necessarily criminal, this argument would allow he could not be impeached for such abuses of power. Of course this would be absurd. More than absurd, it would be dangerous,’ he added.
And he warned senators they could be the president’s next victim
‘They’ll hack your opponents’ emails, mount a social media campaign to support you, announce investigations of your opponent to help you, and all for the asking. Leave Donald Trump in office after you have found him guilty and this is the future that you will invite,’ he said.
‘History will not be kind to Donald Trump. I think we all know that. Not because it will be written by Never-Trumpers but because whenever we have departed from the values of our nation we have come to regret it, and that regret is written all over the pages of our history,’ he said in a passionate final plea to the 100 senators who decide the president’s fate.
‘Every single vote, even a single vote by a single member can change the course of history. It is said that a single man or woman of courage makes a majority. Is there one among you who will say enough?,’ he added.
‘Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less. And decency matters not at all. I do not ask you to convict him truth or right or decency matter matters nothing to him but because we have proven our case and it matters to you. Truth matters to you. Right matters to you. You are decent. He is not who you are,’ he tsaid.
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