Rand Paul Senate Speech: Impeaching Trump Is the 'Antithesis of Unity'

Senators have taken an oath to ensure “impartial justice” as jurors in Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial, but some Republican senators want to stop the proceedings.

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky forced a vote on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, attempting to declare an impeachment trial of a former president unconstitutional.

The motion failed 55 to 45.

"A sham, this is, a travesty, a dark blot on the history of our country," Paul said in a fiery speech on the Senate floor.

He called on Senate colleagues to stop this "kangaroo court" and compared the way Trump egged on the crowd outside the White House before the mob stormed the Capitol to past speeches by Democratic lawmakers, including now-Vice President Kamala Harris.

Paul said an impeachment trial against a former president no longer in office will only serve to divide an already fractured country.

"This impeachment is nothing more than a partisan exercise designed to further divide the country. Democrats claim to want to unify the country, but impeaching a former president, a private citizen, is the antithesis of unity," he said.

Republicans are also questioning whether Trump’s repeated demands to overturn Joe Biden’s election really amounted to incitement.

What seemed for some Democrats like an open-and-shut case that played out for the world on live television — as Trump encouraged a rally mob to "fight like hell" for his presidency — is running into a Republican Party that feels very differently.

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[ElloMoto]

Since when was accountability and the law about unity? You want to unify? Great let’s unify behind holding people accountable. Let’s unify behind the law and morality.

[LittleSuzi]

We won’t be fooled, we have constitutional rights.🗽

[sjbauer]

Hey if Rand Paul is going to push a vote on whether the second impeachment is unconstitutional, then he should not have a problem with a vote as to whether the free and fair election of the current US President is unconstitutional. After all - that is what he is really pushing.

Let's get the GOP to vote on whether Joe Biden is the current legally elected US President !

[joeespo]

Much of this speech is left out. Please tell us Bloomberg, how you justify that.Otherwise people may conclude you are hyperpartisan yourself, or at best judge you as valuing brevity over truth for commercial purposes. Pathetic

[maikolvenegasgamboa]

I guess he is still fighting like hell to be a hero instead of zero.

[kevinmurphy]

So the republicans will do what they did before, give trump a pass. This party needs to be replaced with one that works for the people.

[TomHeid]

Paul fits right in. The first lair doesn't have a chance with that bunch. Schumer burnt him down when he tried to pull a fast one.

[pantherman]

Listening to Rand Paul lecture about unity is like being taught the principles of Zen Buddhism by Charles Manson.

[mikeo]

Great lecture Senator! But speaking truth to liberals is like sprinkling holy water on the demon possessed

[nanja]

Senator Paul, kudos! Finally someone with values and convictions in D C! Who knew?!?!?!🙏🏼

[ManuelGarcia-uvfb]

He's got some nerve to even open his mouth WOW

[jean-paulrichard]

Sen. Goldylocks is afraid of papa Bear

[ianreed]

Didn't Rand's neighbor stomp the 💩 out of him not long ago?! I can understand why now.😂

[patriciamcconneaughey]

It over Trump I'm hearing your name.

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Romans 3: 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Hebrews 9: 27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Isaiah 64: 6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Revelation 21: 8
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Romans 5: 8
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John 3: 16
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John 14: 6
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Romans 10: 9-10.
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Jesus said John 5: 24
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Ephesians 2: 8-9
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