Wenn man sich mal die Begründung von McConnell für den Freispruch anschaut, dann ist es ja wirklich nur so, dass er der Auffassung ist, der Senat wäre nicht für die Verurteilung eines ehemaligen Präsidenten, also einer Privatperson, zuständig.
Demnach ist also jetzt nur das Verfahren vor dem Senat abgelehnt worden, in der Sache aber hält McConnell Trump nämlich für absolut schuldig:
Minutes after voting “not guilty” in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the former president is clearly to blame for the deadly Capitol riot.
“There’s no question” that Trump “is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said just after the Senate acquitted Trump of inciting the attack. “No question about it.”
But “the question is moot,” McConnell said, because as a former president, “Trump is constitutionally not eligible for conviction.”
“After intense reflection, I believe the best constitutional reading shows that Article 2 Section 4 exhausts the set of persons who can legitimately be impeached, tried or convicted,” McConnell said.
“It’s the president, it’s the vice president, and civil officers. We have no power to convict a former office holder who is now a private citizen,” he said.
On Tuesday, 44 Republican senators, including McConnell, voted that the Senate did not even have jurisdiction under the Constitution to hold a trial for a former president.
But in his floor speech after the vote, McConnell endorsed the view that “President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office.”
“He didn’t get away with anything, yet,” McConnell said, noting that “we have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being [held] accountable by either one.”
McConnell, who has previously stated that Trump provoked the mob of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, also pushed back on some of the arguments made by Trump’s defense team during the trial.
“The issue is not only the president’s intemperate language on January 6th,” McConnell said, but “also the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe,” including “the increasingly wild myths of a landslide election that was somehow being stolen.”
Trump’s lawyers had argued at length that the former president’s remarks at a pre-riot rally was run-of-the-mill political speech protected by the First Amendment. But McConnell maintained that other examples of incendiary political rhetoric are “different from what we saw” from Trump..
Quelle:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/13/mcconnell-votes-for-acquittal-but-says-no-question-trump-responsible-for-riot.htmlTrump sollte jetzt nicht in Jubelstürme ausbrechen (wie man ihn kennt, wird er es dennoch tun..), der Drops ist noch lange nicht gelutscht, das landet dann halt am Ende noch vor dem Supreme Court, dort wird er dann schuldig gesprochen und als Vorbestrafter kann er eine Kandidatur 2024 knicken.
Auch wenn ich mir jetzt noch jede Menge Zeugen beim Impeachment gewünscht hätte, so muss man diese doch eigentliche viel zu frühe Abstimmung eher dahingehend bewerten, dass die Biden-Regierung die Kapazität des Senats nicht auf unbestimmte Zeit diesbezüglich binden konnte.
Auch wenn Trump das sicherlich jetzt dahingehend verkaufen wird, dass die Demokraten eingeknickt wären, so stimmt das natürlich nicht. Strategisch war das alles durchaus richtig.