After the recent posts here, this can't go by without mention.  As the headline says, Congress impeached Donald Trump today, a year after his previous impeachment ended with the Senate clearing him of charges.  With this in the books, Trump will surely go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever.

On his watch, nearly 400,000 Americans have died due to his mishandling of the covid pandemic. Republicans lost the majority in the House in 2018 and the Senate in 2020.  Georgia turned blue and gave Biden its Electoral votes, and then elected two Democratic Senators.  The country suffered its worst economic decline in history.  The nation was convulsed by riots and protests over police brutality and racial discrimination.  His term was nothing short of a disaster.  

After he lost the election in November, Trump made up baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, as everyone know he was going to do.  Not a shred of evidence was ever produced, although he repeated his lies so many times that soon an echo chamber developed on social media and Fox News, resulting in many people believing his claims, or at least doubting the legitimacy of the election.  "Well, there should at least be an investigation," some people said, even though there was nothing to investigate.  Each and every state went on record assuring the public that there was no evidence of voter fraud, and the Federal Election Commission declared it the least fraudulent election in modern history.  But Trump still maintained his lies, and a large number of Republicans believed him.

Trump next tried to litigate  to get the vote overturned.  But since there was no evidence (because there was no fraud), each and every case either got thrown out of court, or the judges quickly and decisively ruled against Trump.  Even the Supreme Court, packed with three Trump appointees, refused to hear his baseless case.

When litigation failed, Trump then tried strong-arming the states to just throw out or change the election results.  How many attempts he made is not know, but it is known that he called the Georgia Secretary of State and asked him to somehow "find" some 11,780 votes for him.  "Just say you recalculated," Trump advised and even threatened the SOS with "legal problems" if he didn't comply.  Like his other attempts, the strongarm attempt also failed.

So finally, on January 6, 2021, the day Congress was ceremonially validating the Electoral votes, Thump addressed a crowd of his supporters and told them to march to the Capital to protest the count.  He urged his supporters to "fight much harder" against "bad people," and to "show strength" at the Capitol. The crowd marched to the Capital as instructed, overran security, and ransacked the Capital.  At least five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died during the siege and in the immediate aftermath.

Congress has cited Trump for "incitement of insurrection," a crime, and 10 Republicans joined the Democrats in voting for the impeachment, a rare event in these polarized times.

It's no secret that the Politics Desk here at WDW doesn't like this so-called "president."  It shouldn't be a surprise that we're delighted with the second impeachment, and the permanent stain on Trump's already tarnished legacy.  Prior to Trump, only three presidents have been impeached in U.S. history - James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Bill Clinton (Nixon resigned before impeachment began).  

Trump is the only one to have been impeached twice, a record I suspect that will last for quite a while.  Couldn't have happened to a more corrupt thug.