# Post-inauguration impeachment

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-inauguration-impeachment/930190>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 10, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-inauguration-impeachment/930190 "2021-01-10T15:57:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-inauguration-impeachment/930190/201 "2021-02-13T04:02:27Z")

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How GOP senators can hear about stuff like this and _still_ stand by him, as politically gutless as they are, remains astonishing to me:

> **[New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html)**
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> In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the US Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-inauguration-impeachment/930190/202 "2021-02-15T17:54:21Z")

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_Just sent via email to my own Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio):_

Having already announced your retirement, I thought you might - just might - show more courage and actually vote to convict former President Trump in his Senate trial. For his own selfish ends he summoned the mob, and he riled up and sent the mob, which stormed the Capitol in a direct attack on American democracy. He incited an attempted insurrection, and your failure to acknowledge that - your implicit excusing of his criminal conduct - is as horrifying and craven as it is by now, I suppose, unsurprising.

Shame on you.

_And to the seven GOP senators who voted to convict:_

Although I’m not a constituent of yours, I wanted to extend my warmest thanks for your commitment to the rule of law and for remaining true to your sacred oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, as shown by your courageous vote at the close of the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump. He was clearly guilty as charged of inciting insurrection, as proved by the House managers. As John Adams said, ours is a government of laws, not men, and I commend you for not yielding to the personality cult that has overtaken the once-great Republican Party.

Well done, Senator, and many thanks again.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-inauguration-impeachment/930190/203 "2021-02-21T16:49:54Z")

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> **['You did the unthinkable': Ohio's Anthony Gonzalez faces fury over...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/20/politics/ohio-republican-trump-impeachment-vote-blowback/index.html)**
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> To Shannon Burns, the betrayal that local Republicans felt when Ohio State wide receiver-turned-Republican-congressman Anthony Gonzalez voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump was analogous to only one other disloyalty: Suiting up for Michigan.

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