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Alec Baldwin says he dreamed Trump was on trial for ‘sedition’ with noose ‘made of recycled Covid masks’ outside courthouse
On Friday, actor Alec Baldwin tweeted that he dreamed President Donald Trump was on trial for sedition and a “noose made of recycled Covid masks” was waiting for him outside the courthouse.
The actor, who has played the president since 2016 on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” tweeted Friday: “I had a dream Trump was on trial for sedition. And outside the courthouse, a noose was hung from a makeshift scaffold. The noose was made of recycled Covid masks.”
Baldwin, an outspoken Democrat, has a history of making controversial statements about President Trump, being one of Trump’s most vocal Hollywood critics. He has compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and in November called for him to be “buried in a Nazi graveyard” with “a swastika on his grave.”
This latest tweet came after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 232-197 on Wednesday to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection” exactly one week after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. This is the second time that he has been impeached, more than any other president.
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BREAKING: Senate votes down both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in party-line vote
The Senate voted down two articles of impeachment Wednesday which alleged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas engaged in the “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” regarding the southern border in his capacity as DHS secretary. The second claimed Mayorkas had breached public trust.
What resulted in a party-line vote, began with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., proposing a point of order declaring the first article unconstitutional, to which the majority of senators agreed following several failed motions by Republicans. The article was deemed unconstitutional by a vote of 51-48, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voting present.
Fox News reports:
Schumer’s point of order was proposed after his request for unanimous consent, which would have provided a set amount of time for debate among the senators, as well as votes on two GOP resolutions and a set amount of agreed upon points of order, was objected to by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
Schmitt stated in his objection that the Senate should conduct a full trial into the impeachment articles against Mayorkas, rather than the debate and points of order suggested by Schumer’s unanimous consent request, which would be followed by a likely successful motion to dismiss the articles.
Republican senators took issue with Schumer’s point of order, as agreeing to it would effectively kill the first of the two articles. Several GOP lawmakers proposed motions, which took precedence over the point of order, to adjourn or table the point, among other things. But all GOP motions failed.
After another batch of motions to avoid voting on Schumer’s second point of order, which would deem the second article unconstitutional, the Senate agreed to it. The vote was along party lines 51-49, with Murkowski rejoining the Republicans.
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