Former President Donald Trump has declined an invitation, made by the Democrat House Managers, to testify at the Soviet-style show trial known as Impeachment 2.0. Opening arguments in this farce are scheduled to begin on February 9, 2021. Our elected officials have zero sense of irony, Trump was acquitted on February 5, 2020 in Impeachment 1.0. Early February is Impeachment season for Democrats.

The first Impeachment was a sham brought on by a lie about a phone call:

n August 2019, an anonymous intelligence official wrote a letter expressing concern over President Trump’s 25 July phone conversation with Ukraine’s president.

The official spoke of an “urgent concern” that Mr Trump had used his office to “solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 election.

The Democrats never expected that Trump would release the transcript of the phone call. The Impeachment went ahead anyway with the hope that the Democrats could razzle dazzle the Republicans into caving. With the exception of Mitt (The Rino) Romney, the usually feckless Republicans didn’t buy the act.

The Democrats rush to judgement Impeachment 2.0 is even more injurious to the Republic. Trump was impeached on one single article: Incitement of Insurrection. This springs from the fact that he used the word “fight” in his January 6 speech and encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol. Show me a politician who hasn’t used the word “fight” and I will show you a loser. Trump did not incite

Without any facts and without waiting for any evidence, the Democrats filed the charge against Trump. Of course, we now know that Trump not only didn’t incite anything, but that the Capitol breach was planned well in advance. The Democrats have never let facts get in the way of their hatred for Trump and any Republican who doesn’t bow to their will or they consider a threat to their power.

So, the show trial will begin next week. In another irony, Congressman Jamie Raskin, who considered objecting to the certification of the Electoral College results in 2017, is a House Manager for Impeachment 2.0. He sent a letter to the Trump Attorney Team to invite the President to testify at the show trial. You can read the full letter here, but below are a few tidbits that should interest any patriot:

“Two days ago, you filed an Answer in which you denied many factual allegations set forth in the article of impeachment. You have thus attempted to put critical facts at issue notwithstanding the clear and overwhelming evidence of your constitutional offense. In light of your disputing these factual allegations, I write to invite you to provide testimony under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, concerning your conduct on January 6, 2021. We would propose that you provide your testimony (of course including cross-examination) as early as Monday, February 8, 2021, and not later than Thursday, February 11, 2021. We would be pleased to arrange such testimony at a mutually convenient time and place.”

The Democrats cannot have any facts to support their allegations, because there are none, except “Orange Man Bad”.

As Liberal Democrat Alan Dershowitz explained, this is a weaponization of The Constitution:

This next portion of the Raskin letter is chilling or harrowing to use a word that is au courant:

“If you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021,” Lead Manager Raskin continued. “I would request that you respond to this letter by no later than Friday, February 5, 2021 at 5pm.”

Read that again: “If you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021.” Jamie Raskin graduated from Harvard Law School and most likely had Alan Dershowitz as a professor. We may infer from Raskin’s lack of knowledge of the Fifth Amendment that he slept through the class. The Fifth Amendment reads:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

And, no inference can be made by refusal to testify:

When a defendant pleads the Fifth, jurors are not permitted to take the refusal to testify into consideration when deciding whether a defendant is guilty. In the 2001 case Ohio v. Reiner, the U.S. Supreme Court held that “a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wrongdoing. The [Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination] serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.” This case beefed up an earlier ruling that prosecutors can’t ask a jury to draw an inference of guilt from a defendant’s refusal to testify in his own defense.

The denizens of the Twitterverse are hoping that Trump will testify, commit perjury and be dragged out of the Capitol in handcuffs.

Every time tRump opens his mouth he will add another 5 years for perjury.

— Quixotic Fool (@Quixotic_Moron) February 4, 2021

Impeachment 2.0 is doomed to failure. That doesn’t mean that the Democrats led by Jamie Raskin and the Valdemort of the Congress, Nancy Pelosi won’t try to destroy everyone and everything in their way. Donald Trump, Trump voters, and the U.S. Constitution.

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