No surprise to anyone, but the article linked below brutally lays out just how disinterested most GOP Senators are in this trial, and how their minds are made up.
"Despite Democratic impeachment managers laying out a methodical case on Wednesday, Senate Republicans seem intent as ever on acquitting Donald Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol...Republicans spent breaks in between the presentations telling reporters that they were all ready to vote. “I don’t think there’s anything that’s been said by either side that has changed any votes,” Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told HuffPost at one point Wednesday afternoon. “There’s nothing that I have heard during this process that I hadn’t already heard.” When HuffPost pressed Inhofe if there was anything that could change his mind, he said no. “Not from anything that I have seen so far, and I can’t imagine what else is out there,” Inhofe said.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who led the effort to contest the 2020 election in Congress, said he believed that holding a trial for a former president is unconstitutional ― a dubious view the Senate rejected in a bipartisan vote on Tuesday ― and that no evidence would convince him of Trump’s guilt...Hawley spent much of the day alone in the public gallery above the Senate floor...While Hawley didn’t seem to be paying attention to the floor proceedings, he did note that his view from the gallery afforded him the opportunity to watch senator reactions from above. “It’s interesting to sort of see people taking notes or not,” Hawley said.
To Hawley’s point, a number of Democrats spent Wednesday taking notes and paying close attention to the presentation, while most Republicans seemed uninterested and unengaged, sitting back in their seats or reading unrelated documents...Republicans seem resolute on acquitting Trump. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters Wednesday that he had talked to Trump the previous night, and he promised the former president that Republicans wouldn’t convict. “The case is over,” Graham told Trump.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) used his time with the press Wednesday not addressing the facts of the case, but by saying he wished the proceedings would wrap up quickly.
Link:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/impeachment-trial-trump-mob-213422507.html
The House managers really could show footage of Trump shooting somebody and these clowns would yawn and stretch and say it was all a political show and wouldn't vote to convict. How anybody can honestly be proud or supportive of the Republican Party right now is a mystery. The evidence is clear and convincing, and they're complaining that they just want it to end and that they'll never change their minds. Hope none of these guys ever sit on a regular jury and have to listen to evidence to decide whether to convict or exonerate someone.
