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The Trial


Last week, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath to the Senate, duly empaneled to serve as jurors in the Impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. It reads:
“I solemnly swear or affirm, as the case that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: so help me God.”
The Senate promised the American People that in its dual role of Judge and Jury, it will individually and collectively don the blindfold of impartiality and hold high the Scales of Justice as the Founders would have had it. NOT!
The Senate’s Republican majority has already declared to all those concerned, that all charges against the President are unfounded, baseless and without merit. Republican Senators effectively hobbled the Impeachment process before its opening gavel. They swore an oath, knowing full well their intention break it before lifting their hands from atop the holy book by which the oath was affirmed.
We know the end game, that the President is as likely to be removed from office as Mexico is to pay for his border wall. Our expectations have already been set. There will be no bipartisanship cooperation, no changing of minds, and certainly no Perry Mason moment.
Have we normalized openly, and brazenly doing the very opposite of what we speak?
Has our society and the truth become such strangers?

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