Justice Beheaded in Daesh Style
In the recent months, we had witnessed a tense clash between the two major political parties in the U.S over impeachment of the U.S. President Donald Trump, one party has the control of the Congress and the other one has majority in the Senate.
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Trump was impeached by the Congress on two articles of abuse of power and obstruction of the Congress. The vote was 230 to 197 on the first of two articles of impeachment — abuse of power — with one member voting present. The House then passed the second article — obstruction of Congress — with a vote of 229 to 198, with one member voting present. The move triggered a trial for Trump in the Republican dominated Senate.
American news TV channel CNN on Wednesday and after voting in the Senate reported President Trump’s acquittal from both charges. The result of the voting means Trump will remain in power till the end of his term by end of 2020.
In the Wednesday session of the Senate for impeachment of Trump, all Republican Senators of the Senate but one Senator Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, opposed the impeachment of Trump but Democrat Senators unanimously voted for impeachment of the president. But ultimately, it was the Republicans who won the challenge with 52 votes against 48 on the first article of impeachment and reinstated Trump in the office.
Then the Senate voted on the second impeachment charge, obstruction of Congress, and Trump once again survived. But this time, Romney joined the Republicans and voted against this charge, which fell along straight party lines, 53-47 for acquittal. All 47 Democrat Republicans voted for impeachment of the President.
The groundwork for impeachment of Trump began in September when Speaker of the Congress Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry following an anonymous whistleblower complaint alleging Trump sought election help from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 2019 phone call. Trump had asked the Ukrainian President to start an investigation against his 2020 presidential election Democrat contender Joe Biden’s son financial corruption.
In his phone conversation with Zelensky, Trump had asked him to start prove over Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, for his allegedly economic corruption when he was a member of board of directors of Ukrainian Burisma Gas Company. By this move, Trump wanted to use Hunter’s corruption to inflict a blow at Biden who is considered as his main Democrat contender in the upcoming election.
Trump’s misuse of power made the Democrats in the U.S. Congress take action to impeach him and they launched the process for impeaching the U.S. President regarding his two charges of abuse of power and obstruction of the Congress.
While the Democrats intended to summon former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, the Republicans who dominate the Senate resisted against Democrats’ move and ultimately, everything progressed in favor of Trump.
That in the U.S. two major political parties play key role in administering the country, in other words, if it is considered right, the country is administered by bipolarity, once by one party and once with the other one, it is the biggest violation of democracy.
Today democracy has lost major part of its credit because of the power of publicity and media deception which are run by money power, and people in those countries actually have turned their back towards this kind of democracy by not turning out in the election.
In recent Trump’s case, he was actually guilty for his profiteering acts in favor of his personal interests but his party, Republic Party, saved him from the fire who himself had kindled. In other words, the truth was sacrificed in favor of gain and expedience.
So this idea that group and party interests can hinder materialization of democracy cannot be called a “democracy”.
By: Hamid Reza Naghashian
