Shouldn't Biden Keep His Promises?

President Biden swore he’d boot any staffer showing disrespectful behavior. But when a deputy press secretary made sexist comments, the administration’s first reaction was a wrist-slap

- BRIAN KAREM

The Joe Biden administration wants the country to move on following Donald Trump’s acquittal in his second Senate impeachment trial.

I am all for moving forward. But before we do, in the words of Lieutenant Columbo, I have just one more thing. Anyone got a pencil? I need to take notes.

The simple fact that we have to say “second” impeachment trial indicates the quality of the former president. History will not be kind to the man who lost reelection and tried to hold on to his office by inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

That aside, the latest impeachment trial proved a few things beyond a shadow of a doubt: A.) Donald Trump’s time in office is over—and Vice President Mike Pence’s life was almost over. B.) There are some GOP senators who will look great in orange. C.) Trump owns a political party that has zero resemblance to anything remotely Republican.

Still worried that justice wasn’t dispensed to Donald Trump? Take solace in the fact that he will spend the rest of his life tangled in legal proceedings that will keep him from ever being president again—and that the Trump brand is destined for abject, abysmal, all-encompassing failure. His sons won’t follow in his footsteps, nor will his daughter—unless they follow each other to prison.

Though a majority of senators saw Trump for what he is in his second impeachment trial, the supermajority of 67 needed to convict didn’t materialize. Despite this, the Donald was not exonerated—he was acquitted. The fates have yet to decide his ignominious future.