{"id":30,"date":"2021-01-11T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-world.media\/?p=30"},"modified":"2021-01-11T13:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:53:04","slug":"shaken-washington-mulls-trumps-fate-and-more-the-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Shaken Washington mulls Trump\u2019s fate and more: The Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The TAKE with<\/strong>\u00a0Rick Klein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might be that the very divisions President Donald Trump has stoked save him from being\u00a0removed\u00a0from office early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may also be that forces beyond his control now contribute to his ultimate and\u00a0final undoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the flurry of recriminations from Wednesday\u2019s\u00a0assault on the Capitol, the question has shifted from whether Trump would leave office to when and exactly how it all goes down. The president will almost certainly be\u00a0impeached again\u00a0by the House early this week, as official Washington realizes anew how bad last week was, and how bad things might get over the next nine days and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At stake are final judgments for history on Trump, including the possibility of disqualification from running for office again. The decisions ahead for lawmakers matter greatly for Trump and the future of the GOP, and also for internal Democratic politics and\u00a0the agenda\u00a0President-elect Joe Biden hopes to enact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strongest argument Republicans are now offering against impeachment doesn\u2019t try to defend Trump\u2019s actions or even argue that he\u2019s fit to stay in office through Jan. 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, it\u2019s an argument that the cause of national unity is best-served by waiting Trump out \u2013 and hoping that no further\u00a0political violence\u00a0erupts in Washington, state capitals and even lawmakers\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has barely cared about his legacy in any traditional sense, and this week\u2019s White House attempts to remind people of his accomplishments aren\u2019t likely to change things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week left indelible marks on his permanent record.\u00a0Actions\u00a0in the coming days could not only influence how he\u2019s remembered, but also how the country comes through a turbulent and troublesome period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RUNDOWN with\u00a0MaryAlice Parks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine\u00a0Republican lawmakers\u00a0are not thinking about their own legacies, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s one thing for history books to write about a president who\u00a0perpetuated\u00a0a dangerous lie for weeks, and then, in the final days of his term, egged on a violent mob to delay the transfer of power. It\u2019s another thing completely for history books to also write about sitting lawmakers who, perhaps, did little in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we allow insurrection against the United States with impunity, with no accountability, we are inviting it to happen again,\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0argued\u00a0to ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos on \u201cThis Week\u201d Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf a foreign head of state, if another head of state, came in and ordered an attack on the United States Congress, would we say that that should not be prosecuted?\u201d she went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, if that were the case, Americans know it would have likely started a war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While unsure about the merits of impeachment himself, Republican counterpart Rep. Adam Kinzinger agreed that leaders in Washington should respond in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an executive branch attack on the legislative branch, one of the worst days in American history,\u201d he said on the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the party that ran on “law and order” look hold a president from its party accountable now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TIP with\u00a0Quinn Scanlan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it’s still unclear when an impeachment trial would come before the U.S. Senate, if there is a round two, it’s likely the Democrats will want their\u00a0newest members-elect\u00a0— Georgia’s Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock — sworn in before it happens. The pressure is already on to certify the runoff election results quickly, as the Peach State is currently one senator down following former Sen. David Perdue’s term expiring at noon on Jan. 3. Late last week, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told\u00a0CNN\u00a0he intended to certify the statewide results before Inauguration Day, saying, “We will get that done as soon as we can.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raffensperger must certify the election by Jan. 22 — two days after Biden’s inauguration — and Gov. Brian Kemp must issue certificates of election to Ossoff and Warnock within 24 hours of the secretary certifying. The secretary, however, is unable to do his part of the process until all of Georgia’s 159 counties certify their respective election results. So far,\u00a0only 40 have done so, but the county-level certification deadline isn’t until Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because every county was tasked with conducting a hand count audit of all votes cast in the presidential election, Raffensperger didn’t certify the general election — the first time — until the Nov. 20 deadline. While the counties aren’t required to do another audit, Bartow County, where the Republican candidates captured 75% of the vote, is starting a voluntary audit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Election workers will recount approximately 43,000 ballots by hand, not because the county’s election division thinks there was an issue with the machine count, but in hopes of promoting “public confidence in the accuracy of this and future elections.” While it is an undertaking, the county expects to finish by Wednesday, but unexpected issues could disrupt that timeline — as they could with any county working towards certification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The TAKE with\u00a0Rick Klein It might be that the very divisions President Donald Trump has stoked save him from being\u00a0removed\u00a0from office early. It may also be that forces beyond his control now contribute to his ultimate and\u00a0final undoing. In the flurry of recriminations from Wednesday\u2019s\u00a0assault on the Capitol, the question has shifted from whether Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}