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The GOP’s Mayorkas Senate Impeachment Rejection Chicanery
The gaslighting and chicanery by GOP Senators after the Senate rejected Mayorkas’ impeachment articles are pure political theater.
Recent gaslighting by Senate Republican (GOP) members fallaciously claiming that Democrats are setting a dangerous precedent by rejecting Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment without a trial are reportedly backwards, and predicated on hoping America has forgotten the precedent they set when they let their treasonous former twice-impeached leader off twice despite the overwhelming evidence of his guilt.
More than a month after House GOP members impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the behest of Donald J. Trump — a former president who is an adjudicated fraud, insurrectionist, and rapist that was indicted four times and is facing 88 felonies so far — despite lacking any evidence of high crimes being committed by Mayorkas and having to vote twice to pass them, they finally delivered the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
Upon arrival at the Senate, the GOP demanded that a full impeachment trial be held. That didn’t happen since the Senate Democratic majority dismissed both articles of impeachment hours after they were received for obvious reasons. They held the usual procedural votes but shuddered to a halt when questions about the constitutional…
