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LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA[/caption]
THE Republican-controlled United States Senate, as expected, has voted to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. His winning reelection, however, is not assured. The American people will now have to pass final judgment this coming November. He got away with his machinations, collusions and plain bullying of his own White House coterie and political party colleagues. Trump’s compulsion to tell lie after lie, great or small, simply boggles the mind, desensitizing it from any sense of urgency. George F. Will, the Washington Post columnist, put it succinctly: “Since he entered politics in 2015, he has enjoyed immunity through profusion: His nonstop torrent of lies, distortions, slanders and historical claptrap has prevented prolonged scrutiny of anything. This has helped him weather the impeachment squall. Millions of Americans respond to yet another batch of presidential mendacities about yet another sordid presidential action by thinking: This is not news. They are, in some sense, correct.”