Republican Senator Brags About Ignoring Trump Impeachment Evidence During Trial

Republican Senator Tom Cotton admits in his new book that he doesn't take his job seriously, and that he actually ignored all of the evidence presented to him during one of Donald Trump's impeachment trials. Cotton, along with every other Senator, was serving as a juror in the case, as per their job duties, and now he's admitting that he didn't even bother to pay attention? In court, this would result in a new trial, as Farron Cousins explains.

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Republican Senator Tom Cotton has a new book out where he openly admits that he wasn't paying attention and did not review any of the evidence during Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Here is what Mr. Cotton wrote in his own book, in his own words, presumably on his own computer. My aides delivered a steady flow of papers and photocopied books hidden underneath a fancy cover sheet labeled supplementary impeachment materials. So nosy reporters sitting above us in the Senate Gallery couldn't see what I was reading. They probably would've reported that I wasn't paying attention to the trial. I was paying attention to the story that mattered most. The outcome of the impeachment trial was a foregone conclusion, and it wouldn't impact the daily lives of normal Americans. So what he says he was reading about was, um, where is it the origins of Coronaviruses, the methods of vaccine development and the history of pandemics.

That is what he wrote, that that's what he was looking at, is he was doing covid research, people vaccine research. Tom Cotton, by God, was gonna get us the vaccine somehow. Um, so here's the thing. Prior to the impeachment, Tom Cotton told the public that he and the Republicans as part of their job are gonna pay attention to the evidence they're gonna follow Federalist 63. As he said, We have a job to do, we're gonna make sure we do this fairly and we're gonna listen to the evidence and blah, blah, blah, blah. Then he admits he, I didn't do any of that. Uh, I was reading about, uh, Coronaviruses, which either, by the way, depending on which impeachment this was, because the report I'm reading doesn't make it clear he was either reading about Coronaviruses in the fall of 2019, you know, prior, prior to the Covid pandemic.

So either he's clairvoyant and knew we were facing something and didn't tell us, or he was doing it in, uh, January of 2021 after we were a full year into the pandemic and after we had vaccines rolling out to the country. So you're doing research on things that are no longer relevant. So I'm not sure, not sure if you were looking up things that no longer mattered because we'd already figured that stuff out, or if you were looking at stuff that was going to happen in the future that nobody else but apparently you knew about. So I would like some clarification on that if Tom Cotton has that, because I, I, I think the public needs to know if you are in fact psychic or if you're just a moron willing to bet it's the latter. But here's the thing, Tom Cotton is not the only Republican that was not paying attention during the trial. Uh, Republican senator Marsha Blackburn was, uh, reading a book, a book called. It was resistance at all costs by Kim Strel. You had other Republicans that were playing

On their phones, some that were doodling. None of them were paying attention because as Tom Cotton says, the conclusion was foregone. We knew what we were gonna do. The evidence didn't matter to us. Now, I understand this is an impeachment trial in the Senate. It does not necessarily follow the same laws a a, uh, as a regular criminal trial would because if this were a regular criminal trial in any of these people, even after the fact admitted that, yeah, I wasn't paying attention to anything, I already knew I was gonna vote, you'd get a mistrial and it would start all over with brand new jurors, but not in the Senate, not under our backwards impeachment rules. No, you can just admit that you didn't care because you were gonna vote on party lines anyway. And nothing can be done about it. We're just stuck with this system that clearly doesn't work, and all we can do is complain about it. That kind of sucks. It's a, it's a bit of a bummer to end this segment on, but unfortunately, that is the reality in which we currently live. They can admit they didn't take the job seriously. They can admit that they weren't doing their actual duties and jobs as senators. And the only thing we can do is hope to hell that people in their states vote them out of office next time they get the chance. But I'd say the hopes of that are rather slim at this point.