{"id":199297,"date":"2019-12-18T22:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/gop-compares-impeachment-to-crucifixion-pearl-harbor-attack-and-salem-witch-trials.html"},"modified":"2019-12-18T22:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:38:21","slug":"gop-compares-impeachment-to-crucifixion-pearl-harbor-attack-and-salem-witch-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/gop-compares-impeachment-to-crucifixion-pearl-harbor-attack-and-salem-witch-trials.html","title":{"rendered":"GOP compares impeachment to Crucifixion, Pearl Harbor attack, and Salem Witch Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Pence: Dems use impeachment to 'overturn election'\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,docking:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news\/national,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:APDM,createDate:2019-12-18T19:10:16.665Z,credit:AP,duration:45000,headline:Pence: Dems use impeachment to 'overturn election',hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/0060d6c6-c63f-42de-a9a3-0da1a0455d30\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2689179001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-thumbnails\/0060d6c6-c63f-42de-a9a3-0da1a0455d30_poster.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-12-18T19:10:43.147Z,keywords:USAT Video,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/0060d6c6-c63f-42de-a9a3-0da1a0455d30\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:AP Domestic,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/18\/pence-dems-use-impeachment-overturn-election\/2689179001\/},promoBrief:Speaking in Michigan, Vice President Mike Pence called a impeachment discuss in a U.S. House a disgrace, and pronounced Democrats are perplexing to cite this boss since they know that can't better this president. (Dec. 18),publishDate:2019-12-18T19:10:43.147Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:nation,path:news\/nation,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:nation,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:Nation,topic:},tags:[{id:68532648-1f35-4dac-a1dd-26cd518c074d,name:USAT Video}],title:Pence: Dems use impeachment to 'overturn election',url:\/videos\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/18\/pence-dems-use-impeachment-overturn-election\/2689179001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/94f8c_0060d6c6-c63f-42de-a9a3-0da1a0455d30_poster.jpg\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 Republicans compared a impeachment exploration against\u00a0President Donald Trump to\u00a0the Salem Witch Trials, a Pearl Harbor attack, and a crucifixion of Jesus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The House sexually debated a dual articles of impeachment on Wednesday.\u00a0 Trump is indicted of abuse of energy and a deterrent of Congress, due to his purported vigour debate to get Ukraine to examine his domestic domestic rivals leveraging troops aid, and restraint of Congressional committees from posterior a inquiry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The GOP has<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u00a0vehemently slammed\u00a0<\/a>the whole impeachment exploration and record into Trump as a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">&#8220;kangaroo court&#8221;<\/a> and &#8220;sham&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">since a beginning<\/a>\u00a0of a investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Donald Trump calls impeachment accusations &#8216;atrocious lies&#8217; as House opinion looms<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here are some of a tragedies a GOP has compared a impeachment to.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Crucifixion of Jesus<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-GA, announced on a House building Wednesday that\u00a0&#8220;Pontius Pilate afforded some-more rights to Jesus than a Democrats have afforded this boss and this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1207381705738223616\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWhen Jesus was secretly indicted of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus a event to face his accusers,\u201d Loudermilk stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">According to a Bible<\/a>,\u00a0 Jesus was\u00a0accused of claiming that he was King of a Jews\u00a0and was brought before Pontius Pilate,\u00a0a Roman governor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pilate, as a Bible tells a story, after primarily exonerating Jesus, presided over his trial, and was afterwards assured by a uncontrolled throng to judgment Jesus to death, and afterwards he &#8220;washed his hands&#8221; of it.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Matthew 27:24 reads,\u00a0&#8220;So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, though rather that a demonstration was beginning, he took H2O and cleared his hands before a crowd, saying, &#8220;I am trusting of this man\u2019s blood; see to it yourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Yea or negative on impeachment: <\/strong>USA TODAY Opinion contributors take sides<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Judiciary Committee authority Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.,\u00a0curtly responded that Trump &#8220;was given a event to come and testify\u00a0\u2014\u00a0to send his counsel, to doubt witnesses. He declined to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Republican Congressman Fred Keller also mentioned Jesus during his remarks, revelation Democrats that he &#8220;would be praying for them&#8221; and that &#8220;as Jesus said, Father, pardon them. For they know not what they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Pearl Harbor Attack<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another Republican was discerning to move adult another chronological tragedy on a House building to review to impeachment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Congressman Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania remarkable that a conflict of<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"> Pearl Harbor<\/a> in\u00a01941 also happened during December, in that President Roosevelt announced to a corner event of Congress that this is &#8220;a\u00a0day that will live in infamy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1207386979744116736\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cToday, Dec 18, 2019, is another date\u00a0that will live in infamy,\u201d Kelly pronounced on a floor. &#8220;When usually since we hatred a President of a United States, and we can find no other reason other than a fact that you&#8217;re so blinded by your hatred that we can&#8217;t see straight, that we motionless a usually approach we can make certain this boss doesn&#8217;t get inaugurated again is to cite him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">The Trump impeachment exploration in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The warn raid on a vital U.S. Navy bottom nearby Honolulu killed some-more than 2,400 Americans and, in short,\u00a0brought a United States into World War II.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"><\/aside>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Salem Witch Trials\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Yesterday, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">in a six-page\u00a0letter<\/a> to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Trump insisted that\u00a0&#8220;More due routine was afforded to those indicted in a Salem Witch Trials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>&#8216;Learn some history&#8217;: <\/strong>Salem mayor rips Trump for comparing impeachment to magician trials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Shortly after a minute was released, a mayor of Salem, Massachusetts settled that\u00a0Trump needed\u00a0to teach himself before comparing\u00a0his impeachment\u00a0to a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">infamous magician trials <\/a>that took place in her city some-more than 300 years ago. Several GOP lawmakers referenced a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; during a Wednesday debates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;This conditions is most opposite than a predicament of a magician hearing victims, who were convicted regulating bright justification + afterwards brutally hanged or pulpy to death,\u201d Mayor Driscoll wrote. \u201cA indeterminate authorised routine that bears no propinquity to televised impeachment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More than 200 people were indicted of practicing magic and 20 were executed between a years of 1692 and 1693.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: Jeanine Santucci, William Cummings, Bart Jansen, Nicholas Wu\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/613357326\/0\/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~GOP-compares-impeachment-to-Crucifixion-Pearl-Harbor-attack-and-Salem-Witch-Trials\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 Republicans compared a impeachment exploration against\u00a0President Donald Trump to\u00a0the Salem Witch Trials, a Pearl Harbor attack, and a crucifixion of Jesus.\u00a0 The House sexually debated a dual articles of impeachment on Wednesday.\u00a0 Trump is indicted of abuse of energy and a deterrent of Congress, due to his purported vigour debate to get Ukraine to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-199297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}