‘The Constitution Is Not A Suicide Pact’:Day 2 Of Democrats Opening Arguments – Day That Was | MSNBC

Catch up on MSNBC's Thursday night analysis of the second day of Democrats' opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. Aired on 1/24/2020.
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‘The Constitution Is Not A Suicide Pact’:Day 2 Of Democrats Opening Arguments – Day That Was | MSNBC

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  1. I like presidents who don’t ask foreign countries to interfere in American elections for personal gain. That’s treason.

    1. GOGGLE The Names of Every Current McConnell Controlled GOP Senator And Advisex Them Of The Insulting Behavior and Contempt To The C6Is Being “NOTED”. CALL Today
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    1. He has already been impeached. Find him guilty on both Articles of Impeachment, and then remove Trumputin from office.

    2. @Jacob Leibel when a orangutan beats his chest and throws sh!t, we say he is an alpha male. When the president does the same thing, we say he is using twitter.

    1. Was the quote from Lord Acton or Pastor Niemoller?I should look it up, I suppose. The quote aptly describes Trump as well as so many other issues. Who were the people who surrounded Clinton, Bush, Tony Blair and so many others, and did nothing? At least Churchill went against the Tory Party, and he was right. They eventually followed him.

    2. And Americans are really good at doing nothing.

      Last time the American people actually got off their butts was during the Vietnam war. These days, they live in TV land and internet land.

    1. that’s what boggles me about this whole thing. Whether or not Trump actually KNOWINGLY cheated, Mueller report was very clear: Russia DID interfere in 2016 election. Forget election, think of a simple test. Let’s say you’re taking an exam, and someone comes into the room and yells all the answers…isn’t your fault, but who has a doubt that the moment that happens the teachers/profs/proctors etc are gonna do a redo exam?

    1. @Anthony Wolmarans they hate dems because they stand in the way of a repub cash grab. ie regulations, taxes, etc.

  2. The GOP doesnt want to, cannot allow actual facts into the trial because they know as do all Trump supporters that ANY WITNESS would crush the entire case

    1. I disagree. You are making the assumption that your average Trump supporter (and I make a distinction between a person who once happened to vote for Trump out of misplaced desperation, and these idiots) has the nous to make a rational judgement. Given that these people – like all authoritarian-minded slaves – are quite happy to mindlessly parrot the meaningless mantras pushed onto them by their masters, the idea of their having to think for themselves is anathema to them.

  3. As a republican, I’m deeply ashamed over how easily and quickly the GOP abandoned *all* conservative ideals and standards just to follow a “fakepublican” such as the fraud Donald Trump.

    I didn’t trade away my morals, common sense or my brain like the majority of others who’re now part of the MAGA-cult that follows the conman around like *flies* to a *cadaver* .

    I at least know the difference between “right” and *wrong* !

    And I say this.

    There’s no “Red” candidate in the 2020 election.

    Only the “Orange” one.

    And “Orange” is *not* republican.

    So unless they bring forth a *real* candidate of “Team Red”, then I rather vote Blue and wait four years until a proper *red* republican candidate shows up worthy of the vote.

    The GOP are traitors to the Constitution, everyone!
    They have betrayed Conservatism already!
    Vote these pretenders out and get *real* republicans in the administration instead.

    1. This isn’t about one party or another. It’s about character. I won’t vote along party lines for someone I feel has no character. I have switched parties before to vote for who I believe has the best character and I’m a Democrat.

    2. I admire your honesty and respect your political outlook. I’m a Labour voting Welshman living in England (Bristol). We’ve had our own traumas here in Britain of recent times and political divisiveness is one of the major themes of our time, for not just our two great countries but for many other nations also.
      Donald Trump is the engine driving this creeping malaise, we have to wake up and focus. Voters for Republicans and Democrats and Independents need to come together and re-imagine America. Just as us Brits need to re-invent Britain.
      Get rid of this criminal clown. Let’s focus on the future of our children and their children’s children.
      Respect Marc
      John

    3. I’m afraid that the party is dead. The time to reclaim the party was 3 years ago. It’s been going down for years, & dt was just the train wreck needed to give it the final death blow.

    4. @us citizen I agree with the gist of your excellently put comment, however it must be said that the Orange Buffoon in Chief is a but a mere symptom of the malaise afflicting the GOP. Their denial of the science that is warning us of the Existential Threat to us posed by fossil fuel induced Climate Change, the influence over the GOP of the Evangelical lunatic fringe Death Cult, the propping up and excusing of White Nationalist Rascist crimes, the GOP riddled corruption etc etc.
      The Tea Baggers have really soiled the values once held by Republicans, it is a dead, backward, vicious collection of interested and Kompromised rabid lunatics.

    1. I don’t think even Nixon would like to be lumped with Trump. Nixon had some degree of patriotism, which Trump does not.

  4. Trump is a criminal with no remorse!! GOP will unleash the beast amongst the American people for super packs😔 #RIGHTMATTERS

    1. Biden bragged about doing the very thing Trump is being accused of doing and no one in the media runs with it.Biased news.

    2. @mark price Nope, that’s a completely false Faux News talking point. Biden justifiable bragged about getting rid of a corrupt do-nothing prosecutor that the Republicans, Democrats, the EU, and Ukrainian anti-corruption groups wanted gone.

    3. @pcwcol You, like the media, conveniently leave out that prosecutor was investigating the company who gave Binden’s son a fake job paying him $85K a month.Thats the definition of a quid pro quo.

  5. God bless our nation of “Colorless” Patriots – Together We Stand -United Under God!! Black, brown, yellow, red, white and blue!!! Patriots All!!

    1. And great music too! Can you imagine a world without Latin rhythms, Reggae, Jazz, the Blues, or Soul music? We Americans are much, much, much more than a marching band and the Mormon tabernacle choir. Diversity is our strength and our connection to all the cultures and people everywhere who believe in freedom and democracy. We will never be silenced.

  6. You’d think these “proud” Senators would be tired of Trump trying to bully them by now. A lot of those Republican Senators would be hailed as American Heroes if they actually got to the bottom of this AND did the right thing.

    1. Ilia Smirnoff Us Brits knew that well before he was elected. Then we don’t have Fox News. It’s banned.

    2. Not entirely legacy, he has kids. The Trumps have been sh!t excuses for human beings for several generations and they’ll carry on/forward what they have learned. May they all be struck with sterility.

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