Candace Owens slams Trump impeachment as having ‘nothing to do’ with Capitol riot & says Biden has DC ‘under occupation’
CONSERVATIVE political commentator Candace Owens on Tuesday afternoon ripped ex-President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial as having nothing to do with the Capitol riot.
sounded off on Twitter shortly after the to reject arguments by Trump’s lawyers that holding a of a former president is unconstitutional.
* Read our for the very latest news and updates on the former president...
The staunch Trump supporter said the was as absurd as President Joe Biden’s decision to keep National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol.
“I don’t know what’s more bizarre,” Owens .
“The fact that D.C is still basically under military occupation and Biden’s confirmed plans to keep the national guard here through to March, or the fact that there are still people who believe this has anything to do with January 6th.”
While Owens believes Trump’s trial is not motivated by the last month, Democratic impeachment managers argue that the former president incited the deadly riot.
In an 80-page brief laying out their case, Democrats accused Trump of trying to “extend his grip on power by fomenting violence against Congress.”
Trump’s lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor argued that there is no legal justification to have an impeachment trial for a president who is no longer in office.
During the trial, Schoen from the very start of his presidency.
"In this unprecedented snap impeachment process,” Schoen said.
“It is a function of the insatiable lust for impeachment in the House for the past four years, consider this."
But enough senators sided with House managers and their stance that the Senate needs to hold the trial because Trump was impeached before his term was over.
Six Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in voting to move forward with the trial.
Since it would take 17 Republican senators to vote with Democrats in order to convict Trump, the former president will very likely be acquitted.
Owens has continued to criticize Democrats’ push to hold Trump accountable for the Capitol siege.
On Sunday, she that anyone smarter than a fifth grader would realize that the “radical Left is trying to brainwash the world” into likening the Capitol riot with the 9/11 or Pearl Harbor attacks.
Owens added that “every good dictator needs a ‘reason’ and a ‘justification’ for locking up, censoring, and criminalizing all acts of political dissent,” possibly referring to Biden.
“That is why I will #NeverForgetJanuary6th," she .
Most read in News
“Because it’s become a justification for evil against half our country who remain innocent.”
READ MORE SUN STORIES
Owens ended her Twitter thread by calling on fellow conservatives to “speak up” during “this important time in our country.”
“For any conservatives who do not have the courage to admit this and are capitulating to the sweeping acts that are being committed against citizens—including President Trump—you will come to regret such spinelessness,” she .