President Joe Biden, widely praised for his inaugural call to unity, was asked about the forthcoming, highly divisive Senate trial of former President Donald Trump.
“I think it has to happen,” he responded.
But this process shouldn’t be confused with impeachment under Article 1, Section 3, and Article 2, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. The appropriate term for what we’re watching play out in our nation’s capital is a show trial, the mock judicial proceedings carried out by tyrants such as Joseph Stalin after they took power.-- More...