1. When a Special Counsel was picked to investigate Whitewater during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, the GOP argued that the investigator must be led by a Republican, because a Democrat could not be trusted to fairly investigate a member of his own party. Two Republicans were chosen, and the investigation went on for years, looking under every rock it could to try and find dirt on President Clinton. Yet, during any investigations that have occurred during President Trump’s administration, the GOP has argued endlessly that the investigations have been a partisan witchhunt, even though a huge number of people who have worked on the investigations have been lifelong Republicans, and even though the Russian Interference investigation was led by two Republicans, James Comey and Robert Mueller. In other words, the GOP has argued that a Democratic President like Bill Clinton must have an investigation led by a Republican, yet when an investigation involving A Republican President is led by Republicans, members of the Presidents' own party, that it is a merely partisan witch hunt.
2. Shortly before the whistleblower revealed information about Trump’s call last summer with President Zelinsky, William Barr’s DOJ was arguing that Gerald Nadler and the House Judiciary Committee were not entitled to the Mueller Report evidence because their investigation was not a real impeachment. Gerald Nadler at the time had repeatedly said that it was an impeachment investigation, but he was trying to get the information without having to hold a formal vote on impeachment because he was trying to take things slowly and carefully. DOJ lawyers argued that without a formal impeachment vote, the House Judiciary investigation was not a real impeachment, so Gerald Nadler was very reluctantly moving toward asking for an impeachment vote because Republicans were leaving him little choice if he wanted the Mueller information this century.
Now Republicans repeatedly talk about how awful it is that the House impeached Donald Trump and how awful it is that the House has moved too quickly. This is the nuttiness we get from the GOP.
3. Since before the release of the Mueller Report, the GOP has argued that because of two memos issued by the Department of Justice, the DOJ could not indict a sitting President. They argued that because Impeachment was in the Constitution, that, clearly, impeachment was the proper way to deal with a sitting President who possibly needed to be removed. Later, when the House Judiciary began to go through the process of impeachment, the GOP argued that since Donald Trump had not been indicted of any crime, he could not be impeached. Are you kidding me?
4. Recently, the GOP has argued repeatedly that the House was moving too quickly on impeachment and that the speed with which the House was moving was unfair. They, of course, we're ignoring the fact that 1) The reason it was moving so quickly was that Donald Trump had refused to turn over hundreds of pages of requested documents and 2) that the Trump administration had refused to allow the most high ranking witnesses in the investigation to testify, which of course, would have slowed things down a great deal.
5. The GOP has repeated literally yelled about how unfair the impeachment process has been, yet when the House investigation asked Donald Trump to provide any witnesses or documents that it would like to defend Donald Trump, all the GOP could provide was a Constitutional Lawyer to testify that impeachment was not called for. The Trump administration has refused to provide any fact witnesses of their own to defend Donald Trump, nor have they provided any documents of their own to defend Donald Trump beyond the few documents that they have provided that were requested already by the House investigation.
6. The very same political party, and in fact, some of the very same people, such as Lindsey Graham, who argued that President Bill Clinton should be impeached and removed from office because he allegedly broke the law by committing perjury, now argue that when Donald Trump broke the law by soliciting bribery from a foreign power, that he did nothing wrong and that this impeachment, as opposed to the Clinton impeachment, is just a partisan hoax brought on by Democrats who simply wanted to impeach Donald Trump from the very first day—even though for the first two years of his administration, that was literally impossible, and even though the Democrats have done everything in their power to try and do thorough investigations, gather as much evidence as possible and have as many hearings as possible before even considering impeaching Donald Trump.
At every turn, the Democrats have tried to move slowly and deliberately to investigate any allegations of wrongdoing by either the people who were members of President Trump’s Administration or the people who were members of his 2016 Presidential Campaign. It has been the GOP and the Trump administration who have sought to thwart and obstruct any investigations, to belittle any investigations, and to actually belittle and punish those who have conducted those investigations.
If the GOP controlled Senate fails to convict Donald Trump, as I expect is almost certainly they will, they will have completely transformed our country. They will actually change what our Founding Fathers truly wanted, a President was accountable to the people, into a King who is accountable to no one. It is clear from looking at the U.S. Constitution with its deliberate and repeated limits on the power of the Presidency, as well as from looking at what the creators of the Constitution wrote in their writings by the in the 18th century, that our Founding Fathers feared a King with too much power more than anything else.
The GOP is attempting to give America the one thing that America neither needs nor wants, and the one thing that will most damage this country now and in the future. These members of the GOP care not about what the Founding Fathers wanted, about the Constitution which they swore to protect, or about the damage their actions will do to our country in the future. Their positions of power matter more to them than anything else, and they have convinced themselves that not convicting Donald Trump is the easiest way for them to hold on to that power. The GOP will soon go from being the party that freed the slaves to the party that enslaved our nation to a monarch. What do you think the Founding Fathers would say to that?