{"id":50007,"date":"2021-01-27T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50007"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T23:01:22","slug":"democrats-are-angry-unhinged-deranged-by-their-hatred-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50007","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Are \u2018Angry, Unhinged, Deranged By Their Hatred\u2019 Of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rand Paul: Dems Are \u2018Angry, Unhinged, Deranged By Their Hatred\u2019 Of Trump<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s almost as if they have no ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_50014\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50014\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50014\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-10.24.02-am-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-10.24.02-am-1.png 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-10.24.02-am-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-10.24.02-am-1-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Senator Rand Paul argued against the impeachment of Donald Trump Tuesday, urging that \u201cDemocrats are about to drag our great country down into the gutter of rancor and vitriol the likes of which has never been seen in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul proclaimed that Democrats are \u201cangry, unhinged partisans, deranged by their hatred of the former president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShame on those who seek blame and revenge, and who choose to pervert a constitutional process while doing so,\u201d Paul said on the Senate floor, adding \u201cI want this body on record \u2014 every last person here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost as if they have no ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump\u201d Paul declared, explaining that they are more guilty of \u2018incitement\u2019 than Trump could be.<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTiGZeyZw3s\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>No Democrat will honestly ask whether Bernie Sanders incited the shooter that nearly killed Steve Scalise,\u201d Paul said, adding \u201cNo Democrat will ask whether Maxine Waters incited violence when she literally told her supporters to confront Trump officials in public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul further stated that while he voted against challenging the electoral college certification of the election, it is beyond the pale to attempt to cancel lawmakers who did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI disagreed. I don\u2019t think Congress should overturn the Electoral College but impeaching or censoring, or expelling a member of Congress you disagree with? Is the truth so narrow that only you know the truth?\u201d the Senator noted, in a reference to voter fraud.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article\">\n<div class=\"ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul\u2019s speech was part of an effort by the Senator to force a vote\u00a0on the constitutionality of the impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done, 45 Republicans voted with Paul, against the impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>This means that 5 Republicans in the Senate side with Democrats on the impeachment. Those Senators are Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Say their names.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Paul noted that given that at least 17 Republicans would have to vote with Democrats, the vote\u00a0\u201cshows that impeachment is dead on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you voted that it was unconstitutional then how in the world would you ever hope to convict somebody for this?\u201d Paul asked, adding ,\u201d45 of us, almost the entire caucus, 95% of the caucus, voted that the whole proceeding was unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a big victory for us. Democrats can beat this partisan horse as long as they want \u2014 this vote indicates it\u2019s over, the trial is all over,\u201d Paul declared.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/27\/rand-paul-dems-are-angry-unhinged-deranged-by-their-hatred-of-trump\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/27\/rand-paul-dems-are-angry-unhinged-deranged-by-their-hatred-of-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul: Dems Are \u2018Angry, Unhinged, Deranged By Their Hatred\u2019 Of Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}