The House of Representatives vote to impeach President Trump in connection with last week’s US Capitol riot represents a “missed opportunity” for both parties to find common ground, said former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy on Wednesday. .
McCarthy, now a contributor to Fox News, argued in “Bill Hemmer Reports” that Congress could have censored the president on a bipartisan basis rather than perpetuating “a kind of deep and meaningless party division without a good end”.
ANDY MCCARTHY: I think it is an opportunity lost due to the possibility of a consensus bill. There was no reason to go on with this because the president could not be removed … There will be no trial while President Trump is still in office. There was a possibility here to basically censor what the President did in a precise way that I think would have gotten a lot of Republican votes and all Democratic votes and would have shown bipartisan unity in condemning the country.
Instead, what we had is a kind of deep and meaningless party division, without a good end, because the president is not really going to be tried and when the trial does happen, whatever it is, there is a high probability that the president be acquitted, because they have tampered with this impeachment article with terms like ‘insurrection’ and ‘incitement’ that are not supported in the examination.
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I just think it’s a really missed opportunity, for what purpose, I don’t know, in addition to deepening the division in the country, and I say this as someone who thinks that the president’s conduct was impeachment.
The House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump on a single charge of “inciting insurrection”. Ten Republicans joined 222 Democrats in voting for impeachment.