Why Can’t The Duck be Plucked

Jeanai Stribbling
4 min readFeb 11, 2021

Now if you live in the United States, scratch that if you live on planet earth then you know who Donald Trump is. If you do not, then i advise you to watch television in the future but for today I will give you a rerun.

Donald j Trump is so to speak a social media outburst that just so happens to be an American Politician who was the 45th president of the United States of America from 2017 to 2021.

Within his first 100 days he made tons of decisions some were good and other were…no so good per-say. However he gained 3456 followers from his first post on twitter about the “Mexican wall” …well thats in the past.

Now Lets talk about Peaches

Welcome to the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump.

The House is holding its first-ever impeachment trial of a former president. Donald Trump is accused of inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection that left five people dead. The trial is expected to be an unusually swift one, with many Republicans signaling they’ll convict. It will be the first time a president has been impeached twice and the first impeachment trial for a ex-president.
This all isnt very surprising, however how the cookie unfolds is surprising .Trump’s impeccable trial i believe that a trial is not necessary and not gonna happen mainly because Trump was removed from office already and with the support of the constitution at hand it’s not gonna happen.

According to Newt Gingrich,he stated simply that it’s not frivolous for Trump to argue that, since his removal is now impossible, the Senate can’t try him, let alone convict him. The Constitution’s purpose is removal, not punishment, he says, and a former official can’t be removed from office. However, according to the evidence Trump’s new lawyers filed an impeachment article on Tuesday, after he parted ways with the lawyers who’d previously agreed to represent him in the trial. As supported,It’s unlikely that the Senate will try a President who is no longer in office, since it can’t convict him, and it’s unlikely it will try him now, either. The trial will take place in the Senate chamber that was desecrated by Donald Trump’s followers, and will be the court of impeachment. Also according to The Constitution’s Article I, which gives the Senate the “Power to try all Impeachments,” stated that the remedy for a conviction “shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold” federal office. A separate provision, in Article II, says, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” As Trump posted on twitter several times… like it hasn’t happened before…

However according to history in 1797, Senator William Blount was impeached for a plot to help the British gain possession of Spanish territories. The day after he was impeachment, his colleagues voted to expel him, so he was no longer a senator. Months later, the Senate convened as a court of impeachment to try him, but his attorneys argued that the Senate lacked jurisdiction. The Senate dismissed the case, but it’s difficult to take the case as precedent for or against trying Trump.More historical content …In 1876, the Secretary of War under President Grant resigned just minutes before the House was set to impeach him for accepting bribes. The House impeached him anyway, and the Senate tried him, amid debate about whether resigning should allow an official to evade impeachment and conviction. The vast majority of senators who voted to acquit did so not because they thought he wasn’t guilty of the offense but, rather, because he was now no longer an official.Now speaking more recent on the flip side,If Republicans want Trump to be acquitted, they should highlight the suspected illegal.

According to Rothkopf ,An acquittal may be worse than no trial. We’ll get the worst of all worlds: a divisive impeachment trial that inflames half the country.LET THE RED AND BLUE WAR RISE AGAIN.

Gersen, Jeannie et al. The New Yorker, 2021, https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jeannie-suk.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tweet-impeach-the-pres_n_5da5ed5ce4b0f6f0ce0810f6

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