Tapper: Republicans Citing Constitutional Objections to Impeaching Trump Don’t Really Mean It

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TAPPER: “You know, it's just so strange because — look, I’m not a constitutional scholar. I don’t have an opinion on this, but a lot of people who are voting to not have any consequences for Donald Trump are doing so not because of constitutionality but because they don’t want to hold Donald Trump to any sort of standard and they never have. Some of these are the same people who will, like, vote to deny government assistance to somebody because they test positive for drugs. They believe in consequences for everybody else but the president, outgoing president, former president, can literally incite an insurrection on the Capitol to hold on to power, to subvert democracy, and they don’t think there should be consequences. So if they don’t believe that an impeachment trial is constitutional, you know, that’s — that’s obviously a — a legal position, a legal argument, but if you don’t believe, then what consequence?”