Adam Schiff's closing argument, Feb. 3, 2020

 This was Adam Schiff's closing argument for T----'s impeachment, Feb. 3, 2020 As you know, the Senate refused to say ENOUGH, and refused to impeach T----. In my mind, they are thus responsible for the insurrection that took place a year later, on Jan. 6. 2021. The abuses of power that Schiff warned about became a dangerous reality. Within 36 hours of the event, five people had died: one was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer. Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. And worst of all, America saw that truth, right and decency no longer matter for T---, his Brownshirt Republicans, and Americans beguiled by them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQEH62vbwoQ

<If abuse of power is not impeachable, even though it is clear the founders considered it the highest of all high crimes and misdemeanors, but if it were not impeachable, then a whole range of utterly unacceptable conduct in a president would now be beyond reach.

Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election; or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and let Jerod Kushner run the country, delegating to him the decision of whether to go to war. Because those things are not necessarily criminal, this argument would allow that he could not be impeached for such abuses of power. Of course this would be absurd. More than absurd, it would be dangerous.

So, Mr. Dershowitz tried to embellish his legal creation and distinguish among those abuses of power, which would be impeachable from those which wouldn’t. Abuses of power that would help the President get reelected were permissible, and therefore unimpeachable, and only those for pecuniary gain were beyond the pale. Under this theory, as long as the President believed his reelection was in the public interest, he could do anything and no quid pro quo was too corrupt, no damage to our national security too great.

...But what we do here, in this moment, will affect its course and its correction. Every single vote--even a single vote--by a single member, can change the course of history. it is said that a single man or woman of courage makes a majority. Is there one among you who will say, 'ENOUGH!'?

America believes in a thing called truth. She does not believe we are entitled to our own alternative facts. She recoils at those who spread pernicious falsehoods. To her, truth matters. There is nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there is no truth.

America also believes that there is a difference between right and wrong, and right matters here. But there is more. Truth matters. Right matters. But so does decency. Decency matters.">