I must wonder — in light of the Trump-supporting rioters and insurrection fomented by Donald Trump himself — whether Sen. Lisa Murkowski now regrets voting to acquit Trump last January, when she could have voted to remove him from office.
Rep. Adam Schiff, House chief prosecutor against the president, pleaded with the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office.Saying Donald Trump had “betrayed our national security” and would do so again, Schiff used his closing arguments in the president’s impeachment trial to urge the Senate to take a stand against “a man without character.”
”We must say enough — enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again,” Schiff, D-Calif., told the Senate. “He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.”
We now know Adam Schiff was right and Sen. Murkowski was wrong to acquit him.
— Elstun W. Lauesen
Anchorage
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