After the Senate acquitted him of a riot-related charge yesterday, a confident Donald J. Trump pledged to step up his Maga movement in the coming months.
The "former" president turned his attention to his supporters, promising them "our historic, patriotic, and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun," and that "I have much to share with you" in "the months ahead."
He added that "I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!
“We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future,” he said. “Together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.”
Trump thanked his legal team and the lawmakers who voted not guilty, while blasting Democrats, whom he accused of getting a "free pass to denigrate the rule of law." The impeachment effort, Trump declared, was "another phase" of what he considers "the greatest witch hunt" in American history.
The Senate voted to acquit Trump in a 57:43 vote. All Democrats and seven Republicans voted to convict him.
Republicans who voted across the party line include Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
Presumably, these seven Deep Staters will find a chilly reception in the Maga wing of the GOP.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), another anti-Trumper, has said that Trump is no longer head of the Republican Party. Yet, with 70 percent of Republicans willing to back a Trump party, the likelihood is that Trump will retain the whip hand, though he will face opposition from Deep Staters who benefit from the military-industrial complex and neoconservatives, who turned against him because of his opposition to endless warfare.
A flustered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited herself onto the Senate floor, seized a microphone and denounced Republican senators as cowards for voting to acquit.
The "former" president turned his attention to his supporters, promising them "our historic, patriotic, and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun," and that "I have much to share with you" in "the months ahead."
He added that "I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!
“We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future,” he said. “Together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.”
Trump thanked his legal team and the lawmakers who voted not guilty, while blasting Democrats, whom he accused of getting a "free pass to denigrate the rule of law." The impeachment effort, Trump declared, was "another phase" of what he considers "the greatest witch hunt" in American history.
The Senate voted to acquit Trump in a 57:43 vote. All Democrats and seven Republicans voted to convict him.
Republicans who voted across the party line include Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
Presumably, these seven Deep Staters will find a chilly reception in the Maga wing of the GOP.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), another anti-Trumper, has said that Trump is no longer head of the Republican Party. Yet, with 70 percent of Republicans willing to back a Trump party, the likelihood is that Trump will retain the whip hand, though he will face opposition from Deep Staters who benefit from the military-industrial complex and neoconservatives, who turned against him because of his opposition to endless warfare.
A flustered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited herself onto the Senate floor, seized a microphone and denounced Republican senators as cowards for voting to acquit.
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