The United States Senate will vote by secret ballot whether to convict or acquit former President Donald J. Trump of incitement of insurrection because “we don’t want to get, uh, ‘punished’ by Qanon rioters,” according to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Quisling.
“Not that I’d vote against our great leader who as far as I’m concerned is still my commander in chief,” Cruz said. “I mean, even though he called me a maniac and a hypocrite and Lyin’ Ted for all those years, and attacked my wife’s looks and accused my father of helping Lee Harvey Oswald to kill JFK and all that other crap, why wouldn’t I support him for a second term?
“I just think for the safety of my colleagues who might be standing near me – I mean that I might be standing near – I think voting in secret is best,” Cruz added.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said in a tweet that “the vote should be a secret ballot in order to (1) protect the safety of the senators, and (2) allow them to vote their consciences. Same protections as jurors in most trials.”
And after Trump announced his decision not to testify at his trial, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Windblows, said she was satisfied to keep her vote secret because “if he won’t let America know why he made all those dumb decisions, why should I let them know why I made mine?”
The Senate’s vote to keep it a secret ballot was almost unanimous as Democratic senators realized they could get the minimum 17 Republican senators to convict Trump and the GOP senators realized it could keep Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Mitrailleuse, Matt Gaetz, R-Gasbag, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Glock, from stalking them in the Capitol hallways.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-Hayseed, said he voted against holding a secret ballot “because I knew it was going to pass anyway and this way I could say I voted to support President Trump but no one would know if I really did. Best of both worlds.”
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