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Charley in Cleveland's avatar

What gets lost - in no small part because of media coverage - is the underlying high crime. In Impeachment 1.0, you didn't see reports about how legally and ethically appalling it was for Trump to attempt to extort personally beneficial action from a foreign leader by withholding congressionally appropriated monies. The coverage focused on political fallout for the Dems. And now it is more of the same - gloss over the months long effort by Trump of planting and nurturing the Big Lie and the death and mayhem that resulted, and once again talk about how an acquittal will be a political positive for Trump in 2024. Quite the reversal of the collective hysteria the Repubs and the media displayed over presidential blow jobs 20 years ago.

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Dan in Maine's avatar

Politicians pay attention to which way the wind's blowing. Editors know that, and need to be

held to account when the facts are evident. This is a case where the facts are not just evident, but widely witnessed by almost everybody, on live tv, and ad nauseam every day since. Additional facts continue to become public record in prosecutorial filings against the perpetrators of the riot, many of whom have claimed they were directly ordered to attack the Senate by their "leader" to "stop the steal."

Yet Republican senators (jurors) are already saying they will vote to acquit, before the trial has even begun. This is the Real Story, the one that people should be challenged with: It is the Republican Senators who are making a mockery of the process, and their behavior will have long term and perhaps catastrophic consequences for our democracy. The editors and members of the press need to make this point clearly.

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