Trump impeachment conviction? ‘Zero chance,’ Republicans say, as Dems move forward with case

The hearings for the second impeachment trial of former President Trump start on Tuesday and Republicans are making it clear, even before they’re gaveled in, that they believe the result is predetermined. 

“It’s a partisan farce,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said of the impeachment effort on “Fox News Sunday.” Paul added that he does not believe it’s possible Trump will be convicted. 

“Zero chance of conviction,” Paul said when asked if he thinks there’s a chance the Senate could meet the 67-vote threshold to convict Trump. “Forty-five Republicans have said it’s not even a legitimate proceeding so it’s really over before it starts. As far as witnesses, I think unlikely to be witnesses; if they do want witnesses, there’s going to be so much evidence that the president had nothing to do with this.”

Indeed, Paul last month raised a point of order in the Senate alleging that the impeachment trial is unconstitutional. This forced a vote and only five Republicans joined the Senate’s 50 Democrats in saying that the trial is constitutionally allowed to move forward. That means that 12 Republicans would have to change their minds on whether the trial is constitutional for Democrats to have even a chance of convicting Trump.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. ‒ who is in favor of convicting Trump and made the case on “Fox News Sunday” that the Senate has a responsibility to hold a trial of the former president ‒ even allowed that Paul makes a reasonable point that the trial is unconstitutional. 

“I admit this is of course a matter of first impression and so I don’t think the case that Senator Paul is making is a ridiculous one,” he said. 

Other top Republicans also believe Trump is highly unlikely to be convicted, which if it does happen, could result in him being barred from holding office in the future.

“They know that this has no chance of winning. There’s no chance of the president actually being convicted here,” Trump 2020 senior adviser Jason Miller said on Fox News Sunday. “This is designed to try to implement political pain, so to speak, over the course of a week, maybe a week and a half, and then they’re going to move on. They’re not even taking this seriously.”

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Stalin has come back to life and he is running the editorial room at the New York Times

 Donald McNeil is a famous American reporter for the New York Times, where he has worked for 45 years and had just been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his articles on the pandemic.

Two years ago, McNeil led a group of high school students on a Times-affiliated trip to Peru. Subsequently, a handful of students and some parents complained that McNeil, who is white, had used the word "nigger" to repeat a story and that he had rejected the idea that there is a "white privilege".

What is the real story? McNeil was asked at dinner by a student if he thought a classmate of his should be suspended for a video made when she was twelve in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, McNeil used the insult himself .Therefore, the journalist did not want to use the word to offend, but to understand in what context the word had been used. That's enough to be destroyed.

"It is now the official policy of the New York Times that for some words intent does not matter, it only takes one strike to sink a 47-year career," wrote Reason's Matt Welch.

Two years ago the Times investigated the complaints, scolded McNeil and closed the case. End of story? No, because days ago The Daily Beast website learned of the complaints and wrote about the case.

150 Times reporters said they were "offended" by the comments reported by their colleague McNeil and complained that they had not been consulted at the time. Times editor Dan Baquet reneged on the 2019 decision, denounced "racism and discrimination of all kinds" and pushed McNeil out.

And it is certainly not the first case. “By now Twitter is running the newspaper”. It is with these words a year ago another journalist, Bari Weiss, resigned from the Times.

Not only that, but to try to calm the situation, the reporter had written a pathetic letter of apology, which Andrew Sullivan compared to the "confessions" that the Khmer Rouge extorted from prisoners. "This sounds like a Bolshevik at his trial of him farce that he admits he betrayed the revolution even though he never wanted to betray the revolution because he loves the revolution," comments Vanity Fair's Peter Savodnik.

It is the story of Arthur Koestler's “Darkness at Noon”, the Rubascëv case, the tale of a former Soviet commissioner who himself ends up in the dock and who will "confess" to crimes he was not guilty of just as the people he had accused did.

The liberal press is daily less and less liberal.

Giulio Meotti is, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone, Frontpage and Commentary.

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Mazal Tov to the Engagement of the Granddaughter of Moshe Arye Friedman the Head of Neturi Karta in Antwerp!

 

 

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People Want to Know How Many People Will Die Because They Attended Rav Wosner's Funeral

 They are asking this question because at his father's levaya, the Baal Shevet Haleiveת  two people got  trampled to death! 

Now they are questioning how many will be killed because they attended Rav Wosner's levayeh without social distancing?

הלוויות הרבנים וואזנר ושפיכות דמים

אולי תדע להסביר. אולי תדע לפרש

כא' שמכיר את הציבור החרדי על כל גווניו ופלגיו. וכא' בעל לשון נהירה וכתיבה בהירה,

אולי תדע להסביר לי.אולי תדע לפרש לי.

מה עומד ליהודי חרדי (שאינו בן משפחה קרובה) שהיה היום בהלוויתו של הרב וואזנר זצ'ל

?שהוא מכבד אותו או את זכרו

מילא תלמודי תורה, מילא חיידרים,מילא כוללים, ישיבות..

ניחא יש כאן איזה אידיאולוגיה. תורה ומגנא ומצלא. קיים ויכוח.

אבל ההלוויה

!רצחתם את הרבי שלכם

!הבאתם אותו לא מזמן לחתונה עם הרבה צעירים שלא נזהרו ולא עניין אותם כלום 

?אז מה אתם באים עכשיו

לעשות וידוי הריגה

אולי תצליחו לגמור על עוד איזה יהודי מבוגר

בהלויה של אבא שלו בעל שבט הלוי זצ'ל

הדוחפים למיניהם (לשם כבוד הנפטר כמובו) כבר רצחו 2

 ??וכמה תרצחו עכשיו

מה עובר להם בראש??? למען השם.

רבם דקרו...רבם דקרו...רבם דקרו

אולי תדע להסביר אולי תדע לפרש

ולמה כולם שותקים לוויה אחרי לוויהלמה הרב וואזנר צריך כזאת קבלת פנים למעלה. איזו בושה וכלימה..

אז למה הפגנות מותר???אמר לי בחור מפולפל

??הפגנות מותר?? הפגנות אסור

זה פיקוח נפש דאורייתא

?פתאום המדינה היא האלוקים שלך שקובעת מה מותר ומה אסור

??ואם יקבעו בחוק שאסור לישא אשת איש ירוצו כל החרדים להינשא לאשת איש

 ויגידו ולמה לאחרים אתם שותקים

אולי תדע להסביר ליאולי תדע לפרש 

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Shomer Shabbos Trump Attorney Withdraws Request to Pause Impeachment Trial

 

An attorney for former President Donald Trump has withdrawn his already-granted request that the impeachment trial be paused during the Jewish Sabbath, according to reports.

Trump impeachment attorney David Schoen, an observant Jew, sent a letter to Senate leaders on Monday reversing course, asking that the trial continue on Friday night and Saturday to avoid delays, according to Fox News reporter Chad Pergram.

Schoen, in the letter which was obtained by Pergram, noted he “will not participate during the Sabbath; but the role I would have played will be fully covered to the satisfaction of the defense team.”

His initial request was granted by Senate leaders, who announced Monday the impeachment trial would be suspended by 5 p.m. Friday and reconvene on Sunday.

It was not immediately clear if Schoen’s withdrawal will lead to a change in the schedule of the impeachment, which begins Tuesday afternoon with arguments on its constitutionality.

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ZAKA Leader Who Saved Baby In 2001 Beis Yisrael Suicide Attack Attends His Engagement 19 Years Later

 

In March 2002 a terrible terror attack took place in the Beis Yisrael neighborhood, as a suicide bomber dressed like a chareidi exploded himself, killing 10 people including six children and injuring more than 60 including a pregnant woman who lost the twins she was carrying. Many Israelis however remember from this attack the picture of Bentzi Oiring, the head of the Jerusalem branch of ZAKA, holding an injured baby in his hands.

The baby had been among those lying injured but a fire engine at the scene was nervous that there would be another explosion as a fire was raging at the scene and did not let people go past. Oiring however slipped away from the firemen and took the baby away with him just before another explosion occurred, thus saving his life.

This week, exactly 19 years after the terrible explosion, the baby, who grew up as Shimon Levy, got engaged and Bentzi Oiring came to celebrate and to tell the miraculous story of his survival.

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Auschwitz Survivor Who Marked 104th Birthday At Kosel With 400 Descendants Is Niftar At 105

 Mrs. Raizel Shoshana Ovitz, a’h, an Auschwitz survivor whose photo of her 104th birthday at the Kosel surrounded by 400 of her descendants went viral, passed away at Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital on Monday morning at the age of 105.

The nifteres, a’h was a respected and beloved member of the Viznitz chassidus in Bnei Brak.

As reported in Ausgust 2019, hundreds of Mrs. Ovitz’s children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren traveled from around the country to join her for her birthday at the Kosel to thank Hashem for the past and daven for the future.

Mrs. Ovitz, a’h, said that she believes that her arichus yamim was only due to the Kibbud Av V’Eim she was zocheh to show her parents until they were murdered in Auschwitz. Mrs. Ovitz remembers the moment when Dr. Mengele, y’sh, pointed her mother toward the left – toward death.

After surviving Auschwitz, Mrs. Ovitz married a fellow Holocaust survivor, Reb Dov Ovitz, z’l whose wife and children were murdered by the Nazis. They later immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa.

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1 in 100 people over the age of 60 in the Charedi sector have died from the coronavirus.

Prof. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute today (Monday) published data on deaths from the coronavirus among people over the age of 60 among the various ethnic groups which make up Israeli society.

According to data published by Prof. Segal, since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, 1 in 100 people over the age of 60 in the haredi sector have died from the coronavirus.

The Arab sector has also been hit hard by the coronavirus, with 1 in 140 people over the age of 60 in the Arab sector in Israel dying from the virus.

Looking at the general public in the State of Israel, 1 in 350 people over the age of 60 has died from the coronavirus. The data showed that 93% of those who died of the coronavirus were over the age of 60.

Prof. Segal said: "If the level of morbidity in the general population was the same as in the haredi sector, it could have amounted to an additional 7,600 deaths compared to today from the general sector aged 60 and over."

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Trump's impeachment defense team will show video clips of Dems urging violence in 2020

 

Former President Donald Trump's defense team will show videos of Democrats encouraging violence and destruction in 2020 at his Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday, one of his lawyers said.

The video clips are intended to rebut claims that Trump incited violence at his January 6 rally near the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

When asked by Fox News' Laura Ingraham about using a video montage of Democrats encouraging chaos and violence, Trump lawyer Bruce Castor said, "you can count on that."

"I've been looking at a lot of video over the past couple of days," Castor said.

Castor said Trump's primary defense will be that the Senate lacks jurisdiction because Trump has already left office.

"By the House impeachment logic, they could go back and impeach Abraham Lincoln," Castor said.

Those wanting to convict Trump are seeking to permanently disqualify the former president from ever holding any federal office in the U.S. again.

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The "Marmosets" Monkeys Are Into "Loshon Hara"

Like a nosy neighbor, marmosets eavesdrop on the conversations of others—and judge them based on what they “say,” new research finds. The pint-size primates might be using the behavior to screen strangers, preferring to mingle with those they feel will make the best nannies for their offspring.

“This study is really cool because it pinpoints what’s happening inside the animal” when they eavesdrop, says Sonja Koski, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Helsinki who was not involved with the work.

Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) are native to the forests of northeastern Brazil, where they scurry between branches like squirrels, thanks to their clawed fingernails. They’re tiny, weighing about 250 grams, and have white ear tufts that evoke the untamed hair of Albert Einstein. But it’s their social structure that really sets them apart.

Extended families of up to 15 marmosets live, eat, and hang out with each other, but only one or two pairs within each group breed. When babies are born, the whole clan pitches in: Siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles all take turns caring for the young. It takes a village to raise a marmoset.

Because marmosets rely on others for help, they must evaluate who is or isn’t good at cooperation, says Judith Burkart, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Zurich (UZH). That’s where the eavesdropping comes in. But what exactly is going on in the marmoset mind when they spy on the conversations?

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