Is the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) now a pandemic in the United States? This TDS seem to have been attributed to the raging obsession to impeach and convict a private citizen of the United States.
Senator Rand Paul, a doctor and a Libertarian Conservative popularised the term in 2018 when he said that the anti-Trump conversations were motivated by a TDS.
Most Senators seem to be ready to disregard the constitution in order to satisfy partisan vendetta against former President Donald Trump.
The refusal of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roberts to participate in what he seem to be describing as unconstitutional, tend not to bother them apparently due to TDS.
The US constitution named the Chief justice as the one to preside over a Senate impeachment trial of a president.
The Democratic-led House has already voted to impeach Trump on the twilight of his term, charging him with incitement of insurrection for the January 6 breach on the Capitol by demonstrators unhappy with the November 3, 2020 elections.
But the left-wing media could not play soundbites of Trump actually inciting his crowd of supporters to violence. It might be because Trump specifically addressed his supporters in his speech on that day to be “peaceful and patriotic”.
But two-thirds of the Senate would have to vote to convict Trump after a trial, an extremely high bar to clear.
Meanwhile, the Senate voted 55-45 Tuesday, to end debate on Sen. Rand Paul’s point of order arguing that the impeachment trial is unconstitutional now that Trump is out of office.
“This “trial” is dead on arrival in the Senate,” said Sen. Paul, who prefers to call himself a Libertarian Conservative.
“The Senate just voted on my constitutional point of order. 45 Senators agreed that this sham of a “trial” is unconstitutional. That is more than will be needed to acquit and to
Rand Paul tweeted on Tuesday
eventually end this partisan impeachment process.”
Five GOP senators afraid of the vitriol from Democrats voted not to dismiss the impeachment trial of President Trump: Susan Collins, Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Ben Sasse, Neb., and Pat Toomey, Pa., and Mitt Romney, Utah. They voted with all 50 Democrat senators to table the point of order.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has indicated he has an open mind on whether Trump should be convicted, voted against ending debate.
TDS continue to dominate political arena even after Trump has left office.
Rand Paul had said in 2018 that conversation around Russian interference in the 2016 US election and President Donald Trump’s break with the intelligence community on the issue was misdirected and animated by anti-Trump animus.
