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But, but, but, I thought it was absolutely vital to get President Trump out of office as soon as possible

Well, maybe not as vital as we were led to believe. From CNN:

Pelosi expected to send article of impeachment to Senate next week

By Jeremy Herb, Clare Foran and Jamie Gangel, CNN | Updated 2:19 PM ET | Friday, January 15, 2021

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to send the House’s impeachment article to the Senate next week, according to a source familiar with her thinking, which will kickstart the beginning of the trial, though Pelosi would not say publicly Friday when she will do so.

Pelosi’s decision on when to formally transmit the impeachment resolution to the Senate comes as Democrats on both sides of the Capitol and in the incoming administration wrestle with how to balance the impeachment trial with President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda. It’s not clear which day Pelosi will send the article, and she didn’t offer any hints when asked at her news conference on Friday, a sign that the situation is fluid.

According to a spokesman for Pelosi, no decision on timing has been made.

“In terms of the timing, as I mentioned, one week ago, on January 6th, there was an active insurrection perpetrated on the capitol of the United States incentivized by the President of the United States,” Pelosi said Friday. “One week later, Wednesday to Wednesday, that President was impeached in a bipartisan way by the House of Representatives. So urgent was the matter they’re now working on taking this to trial, and you’ll be the first to know when we announce that we’re going over there.”

Today is January 15, 2021. Assuming that by “next week” Sunday is excluded, the earliest the Speaker could transmit the Article of Impeachment to the Senate is Monday, January 18th . . . and President Trump’s term ends at noon on January 20th.

The Senate isn’t in session, and is not scheduled to be until Tuesday, the 19th. If it was so terribly important to get President Trump out of there, why didn’t the Democrats demand that the Senate resume business, and march that Article straight over there on the afternoon they were approved? Why didn’t the Democrats demand that the Senate start that trial right away?

The answer is simple: even for the Democrats, the impeachment isn’t that vital. It’s a parting shot at President Trump, because they’ve hated his guts since he had the temerity, the unmitigated gall, to defeat Hillary Clinton, but that’s all that it is.

The Democrats didn’t even take it up on January 7th, the day after the Capitol riots, despite all of their posturing, because they knew it wasn’t really serious.

So now, they’re going to have an impeachment trial of a man no longer in office, in which the only penalties are removal from office and, possibly, being barred from holding federal office in the future. Since Mr Trump will already be out of office, Republican senators, many of whom really don’t like the President, and some of whom might be expected to vote for removal, now have the easy answer that the whole thing is moot, and vote against conviction. Since any Republican senator who votes for conviction will guarantee himself what he wants the least — a primary challenge in his next election — having that reason to vote against conviction ought to mean that the 1/3 of Republican senators, 17 out of 50, needed for conviction should not be available.

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I think Joe Biden is too smart to try this, but the spittle-flecked left would love to see it

According to the Associated Press, an Iranian court has issued an arrest warrant for President Donald Trump, for the drone-strike which killed General Qassim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. General Soleimani led the expeditionary Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Quds Force (Persian: نیروی قدس‎, romanized: niru-ye qods,Jerusalem Force) is one of five branches of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. U.S. Army’s Iraq War General Stanley McChrystal describes the Quds Force as an organization analogous to a combination of the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the United States. Responsible for extraterritorial operations, the Quds Force supports non-state actors in many countries, including Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the State of Palestine’s Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Yemeni Houthis, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

The Quds Force reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei. After Qassem Soleimani was killed, his deputy, Esmail Ghaani, replaced him. The U.S. Secretary of State designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) based on the IRGC’s “continued support to and engagement in terrorist activity around the world.”

President Trump specifically ordered the elimination of General Solemani, the Defense Department stating:

General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th (2019) – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.

This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.

Sounds like the killing was a good thing.

Most responsible American leaders would laugh at Iran’s arrest warrant, but when you have notable Philadelphia Inquirer columnists like Helen Ubiñas and Trudy Rubin calling for the President to somehow be punished, I would not be surprised if a lot of our friends on the left would support the President’s extradition to Iran, where he would face a death sentence.

More probable, of course, is that the left will be calling for all sorts of criminal charges against the President after he leaves office, but in the United States; they would like nothing more than the sight of him behind bars. I don’t think that the Justice Department under not-Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland will pursue charges, but state prosecutors in New York seem eager to do so.
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Cross-posted on RedState.